Bronze Age Gold from Wales

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

Dyma dorch fawr gron. Cafodd y bar aur ei forthwylio’n ‘gantelau’ ac yna’i droelli 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 gan greu ffurf côn. Cafodd y rhain eu sodro ar y bar ac maent yn bachu ei gilydd, gan gwblhau cylch y dorch.