Torcs

thumb|Bronze 4th-century BC buffer-type torc from France thumb|The Dying Gaul, a Roman statue with a torc in the [[Capitoline Museums in Rome]] A torc, also spelled torq or torque, is a large rigid or stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together. The great majority are open at the front, although some have hook and ring closures and a few have mortice and tenon locking catches to close them. Many seem designed for near-permanent wear and would have been difficult to remove.

thumb|Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freyja, painting by Nils Blommér (1846).

gold torc-like necklace

archaeological find in Staffordshire, England, in 2016, comprising four iron age gold torcs

thumb|right|The Kalabubu of South Nias. Kalabubu, sometimes spelled Kala bubu, is a torc (stiff circular necklace) worn by warriors of the people of South Nias of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Kalabubu symbolizes triumph in warfare and heroism. Wearing a kalabubu was believed to protect the wearer from harm. Kalabubu is popularly known as the "headhunter's necklace"; historically only those who already decapitated the head of the enemy tribes are allowed to wear the kalabubu.

Welsh saint

hoard of gold artefacts from the 1st century BC that were found in 1896 in the north of Ireland

iron Age treasure found in Sweden

Pictish silver ornamant chain