#torcs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #torcs, aggregated by home.social.
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The latest blog in the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: Glascote up close!
#Archaeology #Torcs #StaffsTorcOdyssey 🏺
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/04/15/the-staffordshire-torc-odyssey-15-glascote-up-close/
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I've been torc taming at Tamworth Castle. Full write up to come soon of the last of the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey torcs: Glascote.
In the meantime, catch up with everything here:
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A rather odd sibling for the Newark torc and the Netherurd terminal: Torc H7 from Snettisham.
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/03/09/snettisham-torc-h7-up-close/
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This is *such* an important find & will form significant collection w/ Leekfrith Iron Age torcs & Staffs AS hoard gold as examples of gold through time.
But we really REALLY shouldn't be held ransom by finders & landowners for such pieces...
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Saddened, but not surprised, to see Snettisham books nominated for 'Research Project of the Year'. Yes, there's good in those books, but there's much wrong when it comes to torcs themselves & our research was largely ignored...
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/11/the-snettisham-torcs-and-the-british-museum/
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75 years ago today, on 17th November 1950, it was 22 year old Tom Rout's turn to be ploughing a field in #Snettisham, Norfolk.
He turned up one of the most iconic British archaeological finds - the Snettisham Great torc...
#OnThisDay #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/the-torc-finders-of-snettisham/
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If you fancy a bit of Sunday reading, every blog in Staffordshire Torc Odyssey is here.
This project was/is an experiment in me 'live' blogging a piece of torc research, sharing my work & thoughts, step by step, start to finish...
I've recently been granted permission to examine the final torc, Glascote, so more will be coming soon...
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For those who remember the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey from a year ago - I have good news!
I've been allowed access to the final torc in the set... 😊
You can read more about it here:
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/05/25/the-staffordshire-torc-odyssey-4-glascote/
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A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/who-pays-for-the-hobby-metal-detecting-in-england-and-wales/
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Honestly. We all need to read this. The amount of money apparently being spent, which could instead be being invested in our museum services is horrific.
Next figures from DCMS/PAS are due in the next month or two. How bad will they be?
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Awful news! Following the theft of the Ely Bronze Age torc & a Bronze Age bracelet in 2024, now more Bronze Age gold has been stolen from St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. 😔
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#Linux #games
Wenn man sich Das Autorennen #torcs mit Flatpak installiert hat und stellt sich den Screen blöderweise auf 640x480 , dann geht gar nichts mehr Menue wird zu 3/4 verschluckt.Habs heute repariert .
/home/foo/.local/share/flatpak/app/net.sourceforge.torcs/x86_64/stable/abc123…abc123/files/share/games/torcs/config/screen.xml
800x600 Uff ! Geht 😃
Wieder was gelernt
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Still time to book for this FREE lecture next week 4th Sept. I've also persuaded my co-author Trix Randerson to say few words about Viking Army & his research on Torksey material, so don't miss it! 😊
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A new blog about the recent rather wonderful replication of the Montans torc from France.
Get yourselves to Paris, folks! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Gold #IronAge
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/08/27/the-montans-torc-working-with-goldsmiths/
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A new page for BBoT - Torc FAQs, with a list of the things I'm asked most often! 😁
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Really lovely to have a short version of mine and Trix Randerson's 'Nicked & Nicked' paper published in the YAHS magazine! 😊
If you didn't see the original paper, you can read it here.
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Although the 'Iron Age Dialogues' conf will be published, I will be hit with the usual image rights issues, so will have to adapt it.
I wrote this for anyone who wasn't there (...or for anyone who was & didn't get a chance to take it all in! 😂)
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/05/12/iron-age-gold-time-for-a-shake-up/
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Para nuestra sorpresa, y después de casi 9 años, hay una nueva versión de #TORCS
Para quien no lo conozca, TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator), es un simulador de carreras que empezó en 1997, y del que salieron varios forks, como Speed Dreams.
La lista de cambios es larga: muchas correcciones, actualización de varias dependencias, soporte para mandos actuales, etc.
Descargar:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/torcs/files/Lista de cambios: https://sourceforge.net/p/torcs/code/ci/eced44c3a98798c22e1c1da26d2d32cba29a2436/tree/torcs/torcs/README
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Some bedtime reading for you all: why access to artefacts and the free ability to research, publish - and replicate - matters.
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Dodecahedron
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/04/22/private-finds-and-image-rights-and-wrongs/
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#Snettisham Hoard F has some very strange stuff going on, but I think I'm starting to understand it.
This paper leads on from one I wrote about the Grotesque torc & lays down evidence for the next paper I'm currently writing...
Enjoy! 😊
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/24/fused-melted-and-dripped-on-snettisham-hoard-f/
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A read for the weekend. Related to something - well, two things really - that I'm writing at the mo.
More to come soon, but in the meantime, here's the prequel!! 🤣🤣
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Snettisham #IronAge ⚱️
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/09/22/thoughts-on-the-grotesque-torc/
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Decided to write a thing about something else I've spotted in the #Snettisham volumes...
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Trapdoor
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/04/a-tale-of-two-snettisham-patches/
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The Big Book of Torcs is 5 years old!! 🎉🎉
A HUGE thank you to everyone who's read, liked, shared and supported me and the site. I really do appreciate it! ❤️
It's good to torc! 😂
www.bigbookoftorcs.com
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Tidying up some torc admin before Christmas and have added a DOI and download PDF to the 'Detecting and Torcs' blog.
Seems it's a bit popular and I know several folks are using it for teaching etc (thank you! 😊)
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Torcs #Detecting
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/09/11/detecting-and-torcs-a-researchers-view/
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I needed to write something to get my mojo back and here it is: a silly blog for the season...
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Snettisham
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/18/chewed-torcs-from-snettisham/
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Hi folks. I wanted to share my thoughts on the recently published Snettisham Hoards volumes (link to an online copy of the books is in the blog).
Thank you for reading 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Snettisham #BritishMuseum #Gold #IronAge #Prehistory
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/11/the-snettisham-torcs-and-the-british-museum/
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Archaeoethnologica: The Hoards of Snettisham - Book / Os Depositos de Snettisham - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/os-depositos-de-snettisham-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #Hoards #Britannia #jewellery #torcs #snettisham #celts #ProtohistoricArchaeology #Books #openaccess #CelticArchaeology #ritual #excavations #heritage #CelticArt #Art
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Archaeoethnologica: The Hoards of Snettisham - Book / Os Depositos de Snettisham - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/os-depositos-de-snettisham-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #Hoards #Britannia #jewellery #torcs #snettisham #celts #ProtohistoricArchaeology #Books #openaccess #CelticArchaeology #ritual #excavations #heritage #CelticArt #Art
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Archaeoethnologica: The Hoards of Snettisham - Book / Os Depositos de Snettisham - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/os-depositos-de-snettisham-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #Hoards #Britannia #jewellery #torcs #snettisham #celts #ProtohistoricArchaeology #Books #openaccess #CelticArchaeology #ritual #excavations #heritage #CelticArt #Art
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Archaeoethnologica: The Hoards of Snettisham - Book / Os Depositos de Snettisham - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/os-depositos-de-snettisham-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #Hoards #Britannia #jewellery #torcs #snettisham #celts #ProtohistoricArchaeology #Books #openaccess #CelticArchaeology #ritual #excavations #heritage #CelticArt #Art
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Archaeoethnologica: The Hoards of Snettisham - Book / Os Depositos de Snettisham - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/os-depositos-de-snettisham-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #Hoards #Britannia #jewellery #torcs #snettisham #celts #ProtohistoricArchaeology #Books #openaccess #CelticArchaeology #ritual #excavations #heritage #CelticArt #Art
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Archaeoethnologica: The Hoards of Snettisham - Book / Os Depositos de Snettisham - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/os-depositos-de-snettisham-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #Hoards #Britannia #jewellery #torcs #snettisham #celts #ProtohistoricArchaeology #Books #openaccess #CelticArchaeology #ritual #excavations #heritage #CelticArt #Art
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If you're in #StAlbans area & fancy hearing the latest on this oh-so wonderful torc (& Gef!), it would be lovely to see you on 15th Nov!
Totally suitable for non-archs too.
(Please share. Thank you! 😊)
#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #IronAge #HarryPrice
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
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If you're in #StAlbans area & fancy hearing the latest on this oh-so wonderful torc (& Gef!), it would be lovely to see you on 15th Nov!
Totally suitable for non-archs too.
(Please share. Thank you! 😊)
#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #IronAge #HarryPrice
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
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If you're in #StAlbans area & fancy hearing the latest on this oh-so wonderful torc (& Gef!), it would be lovely to see you on 15th Nov!
Totally suitable for non-archs too.
(Please share. Thank you! 😊)
#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #IronAge #HarryPrice
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
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If you're in #StAlbans area & fancy hearing the latest on this oh-so wonderful torc (& Gef!), it would be lovely to see you on 15th Nov!
Totally suitable for non-archs too.
(Please share. Thank you! 😊)
#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #IronAge #HarryPrice
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
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If you're in #StAlbans area & fancy hearing the latest on this oh-so wonderful torc (& Gef!), it would be lovely to see you on 15th Nov!
Totally suitable for non-archs too.
(Please share. Thank you! 😊)
#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #IronAge #HarryPrice
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
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We stand by our original paper on the #Pulborough Area torc, which you can find here: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/
Thoughts why coming soon...
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We stand by our original paper on the #Pulborough Area torc, which you can find here: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/
Thoughts why coming soon...
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We stand by our original paper on the #Pulborough Area torc, which you can find here: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/
Thoughts why coming soon...
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We stand by our original paper on the #Pulborough Area torc, which you can find here: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/
Thoughts why coming soon...
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We stand by our original paper on the #Pulborough Area torc, which you can find here: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/
Thoughts why coming soon...
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Well, here it is - a torc found in 1848 and which has rarely been seen off display. It was last written about in 1936 and until now there were only a few images of it available.
I love this torc and feel immensely privileged to have been able to examine it! 😊
I give you the Needwood Forest torc in all its glory.
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Staffordshire ##StaffsTorcOdyssey
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/09/04/the-staffordshire-torc-odyssey-14-needwood-forest-up-close/
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Next part of the Staffs Torc Odyssey.
The Middleton Hall torc - less boring than it first appears! 🤣
#Archaeology #StaffsTorcOdyssey #Torcs #Gold
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/08/14/the-staffordshire-torc-odyssey-13-middleton-hall-up-close/
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7pm, Friday 15th November in St Albans (in person only).
Me talking about *that* torc, *that* ghosthunter, some more recent Harry-ness... and with a guest appearance from Gef! 😉
Please share, thank you! 🙂
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
#Archaeology #Torcs #StAlbans #Museum #Lecture #Gold #IronAge #HarryPrice #GefTheMongoose #StAlbansMuseum
(... and if you don't know what it's all about, here's what started it all: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/)
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7pm, Friday 15th November in St Albans (in person only).
Me talking about *that* torc, *that* ghosthunter, some more recent Harry-ness... and with a guest appearance from Gef! 😉
Please share, thank you! 🙂
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
#Archaeology #Torcs #StAlbans #Museum #Lecture #Gold #IronAge #HarryPrice #GefTheMongoose #StAlbansMuseum
(... and if you don't know what it's all about, here's what started it all: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/)
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7pm, Friday 15th November in St Albans (in person only).
Me talking about *that* torc, *that* ghosthunter, some more recent Harry-ness... and with a guest appearance from Gef! 😉
Please share, thank you! 🙂
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gold-ghosts-and-talking-mongoose
#Archaeology #Torcs #StAlbans #Museum #Lecture #Gold #IronAge #HarryPrice #GefTheMongoose #StAlbansMuseum
(... and if you don't know what it's all about, here's what started it all: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2023/10/19/all-the-right-notes-but-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order-the-riddle-of-the-pulborough-area-torc-from-sussex/)