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The Ipswich Torcs

Belstead Brook estate, Ipswich, Suffolk

Gold neck rings dug up by a mechanical digger on a building site.

In 1968 a digger driver clearing ground for a housing estate in Ipswich turned up five gold torcs, neck rings worn by powerful people in the Iron Age, around 75 BC. A sixth was found nearby in 1970.

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When
Found 1968 and 1970
Where
52.0350, 1.1300
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

The torcs are in the British Museum, with replicas at Ipswich Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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