Bronze Age golden torc stolen in burglary at Ely Museum

The 3,000 year-old object, along with a gold bracelet from the same period, was taken during a burglary at Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire on Tuesday morning.

The gold torc, which is a type of jewellery, was purchased by the museum in 2017 for £220,000 using a series of grants and donations from the public.Elie Hughes, museum curator, said: “We are devastated by the loss to the museum and to the local heritage of the region."As a culturally significant object, it cannot be replaced. Our priority now is working with the police to locate the stolen objects.

The torc was found in a field near Ely in East Cambridgeshire by detectorists in 2015 and is one of the largest torcs ever found in Britain.It measures 126cm and weighs 730g of almost pure goldGold is not naturally found in Ely, so it must have been bought or tradedThe museum was closed to the public on Wednesday while Cambridgeshire Police investigated.

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