Bronze Age Gold from Wales

This is large, circular torc or neck-ring. The bar of gold has been hammered into ‘flanges’ and then twisted anti-clockwise to create a ‘flange twisted’ form. The terminals of the bar are plain and circular in cross-section and slightly expand towards a convex end. These are hooked around each other, completing the circle of the torc.

Dyma dorch neu gylch gwddf mawr crwn. Cafodd y bar aur ei forthwylio’n ‘gantelau’ ac yna’i droelli gwrth-glocwedd i greu’r ffurf ‘cantelau tro’. Mae terfynellau’r bar yn blaen ac iddynt drychiad crwn. Maent yn ymledu ychydig wrth gyrraedd pen amgrwn. Mae’r rhain yn bachu ei gilydd, gan gwblhau cylch y dorch.