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  • Bronze and Iron Age gold finds Circa 1300 BC - 1stC BC

     

    1300BC gold Torc- recnetly featured on the BBC news - only gold Torc ever found in Essex

    The Bronze Age artefact has now been officially declared as treasure by a coroner, and is the first gold torc found in the county to be reported as such.

    'Mind-blowing' 3,000-year-old piece of gold jewellery discovered buried in an Essex field found to be rare Bronze Age neck ring from 1300BC

     

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12303191/Mind-blowing-3-000-year-old-piece-gold-jewellery-discovered-buried-Essex-field.html

     

     

     

    Complete unit at the British museum

    Stunning pair of solid gold 1300 BC armlet rings - reported to museum as treasure

    16.42g - 16mm dia

    1300 BC gold armlet ring - reported to museum as treasure

    6.42g, 14.22mm dia, 5.66mm T

    Stunning pair of solid gold 1300 BC armlet rings - reported to museum as treasure

    7.06g, 9.25mm W x 11..45mm dia

    Gold face plates in triangular cross-section secured by a binding strip

    Bronze Age Tress Ring C1000BC

    Lock-Rings

    Ornaments, whose function is unknown, made from gold plates in triangular cross-section and secured by a binding strip, resulting in a hollow ring. The face plates can be decorated with repoussé decoration or with fine concentric incised lines imitating fine wire works. More rarely, lock-rings are made from face plates obtained from individual gold wires soldered together.

    References
    Eogan, G. 1969. 'Lock-rings' of the Late Bronze Age. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 67C, 93-148

    Reported to museum as treasure

    Complete with diamond shaped end knops

    3.12g,27.07mm long

     

    Bronze Age Tress Ring C1000BC fragment

    Complete unit at the British museum

    Monster find -Circa 1300 BC Bronze age gold open backed triple banded gold ring

    3.48g, 13.73mm dia x 6.74mm H

    Reported to Colchester museum as treasure

    Kindly donated by landowner and Org Ed the finder to Colchester museum

    Description A gold composite ring comprising three elements that appear to be thin c-sectioned gold strips soldered together. The ring is bent to an oval shape with one end overlapping the other. The gold is light coloured and the surfaces smooth except where the strips have been soldered. Max diameter: 11mm; min diameter: 8mm; width: 6mm; weight: 3.5g

    Discussion The soldered strip manufacture of the ring resembles a well known Middle Bronze Age type dated to 1300-1100BC. Recent finds of these composite rings include a tripartite one in the Newchurch area of the Isle of Wight (Treasure Annual Report 2004, 21, 229, Fig. 4) and a bipartite one found at Braishfield, Hampshire (Treasure Annual Report 1999, 11, 12, Fig. 6).

    Conclusion This can be considered as potential Treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act. Reference Treasure Annual Report 2004. DCMS Treasure Annual Report 1998-1999. DCMS

    Report by: Charlotte Veysey (volunteer) 2.2.10 Ben Roberts (Curator of European Bronze Age)

    Subsequent actions

    Current location of find: Colchester Museum
    Subsequent action after recording: Donated to museum after being declared Treasure

    Treasure details

    Treasure case tracking number: 2009T524

    Chronology

    Broad period: BRONZE AGE
    Period from: BRONZE AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
    Date from: 1300 BC
    Date to: 1100 BC

    Monster ancient gold ingot - 81.54g,40.82mm L, 21.05mm W, 10.02mm T - reported a streasure to museum

     

    Bonze Age gold sheet - reported as potential treasure to museum

    5.23g, 14mm L

    Bonze Age gold sheet- reported as treasure to museum

    13.7g, 16.09 mm L x 1.39 mm T

    Ancient gold ingot 11.7g, 34.99mm L - reported as treasure to museum

    Gold wrist Torc fragment ? reported as treasure to museum 8.1g, 35mm L x 4.9mm dia

     

    Ancient gold ingot - possible wrist or ankle torc fragmetn3.48g, 3.45mm dia , 29.86mm L- reported as treasure to museum

    Ancient gold sheet - reported as treasure to museum

    8.65g, 30.47mm L x 20.93mm W x 1.39mm T

    Ancient bright yellow gold band - very interesting concave inner to the ring and the pointed end - reported to museum as treasure

    It came from the field where we aslo found a 1300 BC Bronze Age tress gold ring treasure

    2.94g,28mmL

     

    Ancient gold ingot - undiagnostic

    0.91g, 6.67g

    Ancient gold ingot - reported to museum as treasure

    3.37g, 12.5mm L

    Ancient gold ingot - 1.36g, 14.74mm reported to museum as potential treasure

    Ancient gold ingot - reported as treasure to museum

    Ancient gold ingot - 0.76g, 10.76mm long - reported to Colchester museum as treasure

    Gold casting waste - 2.94g, 16mm L

    Ancient gold strip - reported to museum as treasure

    3.01g, 62.4mm L x 4.6mm W x 0.85mm T