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The Snettisham, Norfolk, hoards of Iron Age torques: sacred or profane?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. P. Fitzpatrick
A. P. Fitzpatrick*
Affiliation:
Wessex Archaeology, Portway House, South Portway Estate, Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 6EB, UK
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The remarkable find of Iron Age gold torques from Snettisham (see ANTIQUITY 65: 447–65) was interpreted by the excavator, Ian Stead, as representing a treasury, ‘assigned to the earth for safe-keeping’, rather than a votive deposit. This article argues that these are not mutually exclusive categories, since no clear distinction was made in Iron Age Europe between sacred and profane.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 251 , June 1992 , pp. 395 - 398
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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