Huge Bronze Age Torque Found in England

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a report in the Peterborough Telegraph, a torque made from more than one and one-half pounds of twisted and burnished gold was found by a metal detectorist, some 50 miles from the site of Must Farm, an extremely well-preserved Bronze Age village in the East of England. Although torques were usually worn around a person’s neck, this one, estimated to be more than 3,000 years old, is so large that it may have been worn around the waist by a pregnant woman or over thick winter clothing, as a sash, or even by a sacrificial animal. The torque was reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum. To read about the discovery of another gold torque, go to “Hidden in a Coin Hoard.”