... were normally open at the front, but would have been difficult to remove and were apparently designed for near–permanent wear.
They made the news in 2017, when four of them were discovered by metal detectorists near the village of Leekfrith in Staffordshire. The so–called 'Leekfrith torcs' are believed to be the oldest Iron Age gold jewellery ever found in Britain.
© Haydn Thompson 2017