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Snettisham Hoard

Snettisham, Norfolk

Over 150 gold and silver neck rings, perhaps royal Iceni treasure.

Between 1948 and the 1990s, ploughing and digging at Snettisham uncovered more than 150 pieces of torcs, neck rings of gold and silver. The finest is the Great Torc.

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When
c. 70 BC
Where
52.8740, 0.5100
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

The Great Torc is at the British Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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