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The Snettisham hoards /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Joy, Jody, 1978- (Editor), Farley, Julia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : The British Museum Press, 2024.
Series:Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 225.
Subjects:
Iron age > England > Snettisham.
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Snettisham.
Jewelry, Ancient > England > Snettisham.
Goldwork, Celtic > England > Snettisham.
Snettisham (England) > Antiquities, Celtic.
Celtic antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Goldwork, Celtic
Iron age
Jewelry, Ancient
England > Snettisham
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1. Acknowledgements
  • Part I. The site.
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Excavating at Snettisham
  • 3. The site and its local context
  • 4. The history of discoveries at Snettisham
  • 5. The results of the 1990-1992 British Museum excavations
  • 6. Phase 1: Early Neolithic (c. 3650-3400 BC)
  • 7. Phase 2: Bronze Age to earlier Iron Age (c. 2500-350 BC)
  • 8. Phase 3: Later Iron Age (c. 350-60 BC)
  • 9. Phase 4: Latest Iron Age/Early Roman (c. AD 1-200) and Phase 5: Late Roman (c. AD 350-400)
  • 10. Phase 6: Medieval and post-Medieval (c. AD 1100 onwards)
  • Appendix 1: Full list of contexts from the 1990-1992 excavations, with associated artefacts, ecofacts, and samples
  • Appendix 2: Unstratified flint and flint redeposited in later features
  • Part II. The late Iron Age and early Roman hoards
  • 11. Introduction to Part II and summary of finds by hoard and type
  • 12. Excavation of the hoards recovered in 1990-1991
  • 13. Iron Age metalwork typology
  • 14. Iron Age hoards and other metalwork
  • 15. Iron Age and Roman coins
  • Volume 2. Part III: Discussion. 16. Conservation of the Snettisham torcs
  • 17. Technology and manufacture of the Snettisham torcs
  • 18. Compositional analysis of objects from Snettisham hoards A, B, and C in the collections of Norwich Castle museum
  • 19. Seeing the wood for the trees: evaluating the woody resources of Snettisham
  • 20. Torc biographies
  • 21. Decoration of the Snettisham torcs and other objects
  • 22. Torcs in Iron Age Britain
  • 23. Interpreting Snettisham: what do hoards 'do'?
  • 24. Summary and conclusions
  • Appendix 3: Concordance of finds
  • Appendix 4: Compositional analysis of Iron Age gold alloy coins from Snettisham parish
  • Appendix 5: Analysis of gold and silver alloy objects from hoards A, B, and C and comparative material
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index.