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The Snettisham Treasure: excavations in 1990

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

I. M. Stead
I. M. Stead*
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Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities, British Museum, London WC1B 3DG
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New finds of astonishing splendour have come to light at Snettisham (Norfolk, England), a place which already holds a special, if enigmatic, place in Iron Age studies. Discoveries there first put British gold torques on the map; the magnificent great torque not only gave its name to an art-style but held a coin that helped to date it, and the very wealth of the place has provoked endless speculation.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 248 , September 1991, pp. 447 - 464
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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