TL;DR: > From the above, we would argue that there may be several types of ‘repair’ present in Iron Age Britain. Some repairs, such as those seen in the many c

TL;DR: > From the above, we would argue that there may be several types of ‘repair’ present in Iron Age Britain. Some repairs, such as those seen in the many cauldrons, the Torrs pony cap and the swords, served a purpose to restore the item to a ‘usable’ form. In the case of the Snettisham torcs the repairs may have satisfied another purpose similar to that seen with the Ferry Fryston chariot: repairs or, perhaps more correctly ‘modifications’, which allowed an item to appear ‘whole’ when deposited, even when it was not. "Hey chief, I have some old bracelet to mend, just make it look like it's whole, it will be buried soon with my late mother, so no one will flex it, but please, I don't have too much money now, so do it on the cheap side." Human nature didn't change that much since iron age.