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Image: Gold Torc from the Stirling Hoard (9476773541)

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Description: National Museum of Scotland. One of the Stirling Torcs. Found near Blair Drummond in 2009. One of four torcs dating from 300 to 100 BC. They had been buried in a wooden roundhouse (long rotted away). This torc has disc-shaped terminals and is made from a twisted ribbon of gold, a simple design commonly made in Scotland and Ireland at the time.
Title: Gold Torc from the Stirling Hoard (9476773541)
Credit: Gold Torc from the Stirling Hoard
Author: dun_deagh
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