5th Year:21st April -Middle Bronze Age
Hi Class,
Hope you are all doing good,and had a lovely Easter. What I would like us to look at is the Middle Bronze Age. Use the link below for more info about this era
.https://studyclix.blob.core.windows.net/static/content/file/uploads/2/288f7a5d-89e1-47c4-aa70-a9880e845c95.pdf
TAKE NOTES,and draw the items into your notebooks.
The period from 1200 BC onwards was a very productive and creative time for gold ornaments.
Examples: Earrings, armlets,anklets, waist-bands, torcs and neck ornaments.
Long gold bar torcs
Period : Middle bronze age
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TORCS
● New form of ornament that
replaced sheet gold work.
● There were three types:
Ribbon, Bar and Flange
Twisted Torcs.
● Made by twisting gold into
a variety of decorative
forms
Form: Twisted flat gold bar with hook clasps to fasten the piece.
Function: Worn as jewellery around the neck as a sign of status and wealth.
Decoration: Decoration is attained through the uniform twisting of the flat gold bar.
Technique: Firstly a piece of gold would be hammered into a flat thin rectangular strip. The strip would then be twisted uniformly to create the ribbon effect. The ends of the strip would be hammered into rounded hooks for fastening.
Ribbon Torc from Belfast 1400bc - 1200bc is known as the Bishopslands Phase. It gets its name from a great hoard of bronze artefacts dating from around 1400bc - 1200bc found in Bishopsland in Co Kildare. At around this time much of the sheet gold work of the early Bronze Age was replaced by Torcs, ornaments and jewellery made from twisting bars of gold.
Hope you are all doing good,and had a lovely Easter. What I would like us to look at is the Middle Bronze Age. Use the link below for more info about this era
.https://studyclix.blob.core.windows.net/static/content/file/uploads/2/288f7a5d-89e1-47c4-aa70-a9880e845c95.pdf
TAKE NOTES,and draw the items into your notebooks.
The period from 1200 BC onwards was a very productive and creative time for gold ornaments.
Examples: Earrings, armlets,anklets, waist-bands, torcs and neck ornaments.
Long gold bar torcs
Period : Middle bronze age
TORCS
● New form of ornament that
replaced sheet gold work.
● There were three types:
Ribbon, Bar and Flange
Twisted Torcs.
● Made by twisting gold into
a variety of decorative
forms
Form: Twisted flat gold bar with hook clasps to fasten the piece.
Function: Worn as jewellery around the neck as a sign of status and wealth.
Decoration: Decoration is attained through the uniform twisting of the flat gold bar.
Technique: Firstly a piece of gold would be hammered into a flat thin rectangular strip. The strip would then be twisted uniformly to create the ribbon effect. The ends of the strip would be hammered into rounded hooks for fastening.
Ribbon Torc from Belfast 1400bc - 1200bc is known as the Bishopslands Phase. It gets its name from a great hoard of bronze artefacts dating from around 1400bc - 1200bc found in Bishopsland in Co Kildare. At around this time much of the sheet gold work of the early Bronze Age was replaced by Torcs, ornaments and jewellery made from twisting bars of gold.
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