Tuesday, 13th December 2005 (3000 views)

A gold necklace originating from the Iron Age has been reunited with its missing part in the British Museum.

The 2,000-year-old gold necklace has been an exhibit in the British Museum since its discovery in the 1960s, reports the Times.

Now it has been reunited with its missing gold torc, which is constructed from 25m of twisted gold wire.

Amateur archaeologist Steve Hammond discovered the gold torc buried just a few inches beneath the surface in a field in Sedgeford, Norfolk.

It was close to the site of the original find.

"To find the missing piece of an object so long afterwards - it's now almost 30 years since the first find - I don't think anyone expected," J D Hill, Iron Age curator at the British Museum told the Times.

The torc was purchased with funding from the British Museum's Friends and the National Art Collections Fund.

 

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