{"id":2456,"date":"2017-02-28T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2017-02-28T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:41:28","slug":"new-discovery-golden-iron-age-torcs-in-the-hills-above-leek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2017\/02\/28\/new-discovery-golden-iron-age-torcs-in-the-hills-above-leek\/","title":{"rendered":"New discovery: golden Iron Age torcs in the hills above Leek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Iron Age golden &#8216;torcs&#8217; (neckwear) were discovered before Christmas by amateur metal detectorists in the Staffordshire Moorlands above Leek. In &#8220;a field on the northern outskirts of the town, near Rudyard&#8221; (<em>Leek Post<\/em>) and specifically &#8220;on the Heath family estate in Leek&#8221; (<em>StaffsLive<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The Portable Antiquities Scheme is today assessing them as treasure, and curators at the British Museum consider them the&#8230; &#8220;earliest examples of Iron Age gold-work found so far in the UK&#8221;, dating from circa 250 to 400 B.C.  <\/p>\n<p>The torcs have been named the &#8216;Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs&#8217; and will be on display at the Potteries Museum &amp; Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent from 1st to 22nd March 2017. Abi Brown (Cons), Deputy Leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, said: &#8220;We have worked hard with partners to ensure such magnificent finds remain in Staffordshire and we would be thrilled for The Potteries Museum &amp; Art Gallery to become custodians of another such important international discovery.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87o-w0xCj7s?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Iron Age golden &#8216;torcs&#8217; (neckwear) were discovered before Christmas by amateur metal detectorists in the Staffordshire Moorlands above Leek. In &#8220;a field on the northern outskirts of the town, near Rudyard&#8221; (Leek Post) and specifically &#8220;on the Heath family estate in Leek&#8221; (StaffsLive). The Portable Antiquities Scheme is today assessing them as treasure, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}