Golden torc on display at Ulster Museum

The golden torc found in Co Fermanagh is on display at Ulster Museum [Credit: News Letter]

A rare 3,000-year-old piece of gold jewellery unearthed in bogland by an amateur treasure hunter has been unveiled to the public at its new home - the Ulster Museum.

The golden torc was dug up in Co Fermanagh four years ago by a local man who at first thought it was a spring from a car engine.

It was another two years before Ronnie Johnston figured it was rather more significant after noticing something similar in a treasure hunters magazine.

The item was subsequently declared a valuable artefact at a special treasure inquest at Northern Ireland Coroner’s Court and ultimately purchased by Stormont’s Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure.

Hailed by experts as one of the most spectacular single items of prehistoric gold jewellery ever found in Ireland, it has now has gone on display in the Ulster Museum in Belfast.[...] The Archaeology News Network