as heirlooms, and others believing there were two periods of production. Differing ratios of silver in the gold of other objects--typically up to 15% in the Bronze Age but up to 20% in the Iron Age--can help decide the question. There are several flared gold torcs with a C-shaped section in the huge Mooghaun North Hoard of Late Bronze Age gold from 800 to 700 BC found in County Clare in Ireland.

In parts of Asia, torcs appear in Scythian art