PAS Finds: week ended 20 May 2022
PAS Finds: week ended 20 May 2022
My selection of the detecting finds recorded at the PAS for the week ended 20 May 2022.
Featured Find
Cruciform bead from a beaded torc
A coppery alloy cruciform bead from a beaded torc that dates to about 50BC – AD 150. The square aperture would have allowed several of these beads to be threaded onto an iron rod to form a torc that would have been worn around the neck. It is a Find of Note of Regional Importance.
Perdiswell Torc
The Perdiswell torc was found in 1840, two feet down in a gravel pit in Perdiswell, Wiltshire. It illustrates how these beads were used.
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It’s made of 22 beads and 24 spacers that are threaded onto an iron bar. Only the beaded section remains; the other part of the torc would have been a solid bar.
Jabez Allies recorded the discovery in his “Folklore and Antiquities of Worcestershire” in 1840: “A remarkable bronze fragment of a torc, or ornament for the neck … It is rather more than the third of the circle, and was probably broken in battle. An iron rod runs through its centre connecting the bronze pieces or vertebrae“