object

Torque

Objects

A named rigid neck ring of later Iron Age European practice. Not a fibula, not a diadem, and not an armlet.

Also known as Torc · Celtic torque

Celtic tradition

  • Torque appears in Celtic tradition.

    Caesar’s Gallic War reports torques, the rigid neck-rings of Gaulish practice, among the spoils and dress of that war. A named Celtic neck-ring in that Roman report, not an armlet and not a diadem.

    from Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • Gallic War · Julius Caesar

    Caesar, Bellum Gallicum.