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The Winchester Hoard
The Winchester hoard is a unique group of gold jewellery. It has been described as the most important discovery of Iron Age gold objects from Britain since 1950, when the Great Torc was found at Snettisham. The hoard has two sets of gold jewellery, each comprising a necklace torc and two gold brooches held together by a chain. There are also two gold bracelets. A total of 1160 grams of very pure gold was used to make the objects. One of the torcs is bigger than the other, possibly because one was made for a man and the other for a woman. The torcs were made in a way that is different to that of any other torc known from Iron Age Britain, Ireland or France.

The hoard was found in 2000 by Mr Kevan Halls using a metal detector in a field near Winchester.
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