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The band/collar of the torc is missing, with only the beaded section remaining, cast as a separate piece and subsequently added to the collar. The beaded section consists of 10 distinct discs, arranged symmetrically with gradually diminishing diameter from the fifth and sixth beads to the first/tenth beads. Between each disc, the torc narrows. The edges of each disc bears incised lines across the width/thickness of the disc. At each end of the beaded section is a collar (not a true bead) followed by a terminal of rectangular planview and triangular profile. These terminals retain moulded ridges across their upper face that appears to be decoration, and the inside of the terminals may be hollow, though the internal depth is uncertain due to it being filled with a dirt and copper-alloy corrosion that has formed a cemented infill.

In all probability, a tubular collar fit around these terminals up to the collars at each end of the beaded section. However, it is also possible that a flat collar fit inside each of the terminals. The reverse of the terminals, indeed, the entire beaded section is very worn, such that the discs are almost flush with the constricted segments between each disc.

The object is generally well-preserved with an even brown patina across the entire object and a red-orange corrosion inbetween the discs.

The object is best paralleled by examples found at Carlisle and Stanwix at the west end of Hadrian's Wall, and which probably date to the late 1st/early 2nd century.