Torcs

The four gold neck ornaments known as torcs, which date from between the 3rd and 1st century BC, will go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The four gold neck ornaments known as torcs, which date from between the 3rd and 1st century BC, will go on display at the National Museum of Scotland ❋ Unknown (2011)

He retrieved a pair of golden torcs from a nearby table and brought them over. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

The elven prince had finally relaxed his rather minimal dress code of tunics and torcs a few months ago, just as he had relaxed his vigilance. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, said: "Both the Roman coins in Somerset and torcs in Scotland are going to absolutely the right places, where generations can learn, enjoy and be inspired by them, and experts can carry out vital research." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The four gold Iron Age neck ornaments, or torcs, date from between the 1st and 3rd Century BC and are said to be worth an estimated £1m … The find is the most important hoard of Iron Age gold in Scotland to date. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The torcs were valued at £462,000, raised through £154,000 from the NHMF and £100,000 from the Art Fund, with additional funding from the Scottish government and national museum. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The torcs, which will go in display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, were found in 2009 by David Booth six inches below the surface of a field in Stirlingshire. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some of the most spectacular recent finds of archaeological treasure – a mass of Roman coins stuffed into a giant pot-bellied jar and four gold Iron Age torcs – have been acquired by museums in Somerset and Edinburgh. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The voice-mod made its wearer look like some throwback to Viking or Celtic times, when torcs hugged the thick necks of warriors and chieftains. ❋ Kelly Gay (2010)

He has taken their torcs, so he recruits some dangerous outside help to teach most of them to fight without armour. ❋ Blue Tyson (2009)

The most novel actor in this drama was a hoary centurion who stood in one corner of the tribunal; he wore a shirt of gold scales, golden greaves, a chest loaded with phalerae, armillae, and torcs, and a gold helmet whose scarlet horsehair ruff spread sideways like a fan. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Ten rings there are, and nine gold torcs on the battlechiefs of old ❋ Carla (2007)