Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked '1897.222.a.' in white ink in error.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Display)
At some point 1897.222 A-C were displayed together, and mounted together using copper wire. A-C are now detached.
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

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Context (Analysis)
Santon Hoard. Originally thought to have been found at Santon Downham, Suffolk but research by Rainbird Clarke quoted by Spratling shows it was found in the parish of Santon, on breckland close to the Thetford boundary, between the east end of the former Half-Moon Plantation and the site of St Helen' s Oratory (TL52 837873).
Research by Mansel Spratling. Spratling reference number MGS 3.

Event Date
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Bronze Steelyard Weight. Scales.
Event Date 1897
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1897.222 [A-C] reads: 'A steelyard with pendant chains, and double hook; and a scale (both of bronze)'.
Event Date 1897
Author: Sam Daisley

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Context (Display)
A selection of the Santon Hoard was exhibited at the meeting of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society on 29 November 1897

Event Date 29/11/1897
Author: Sam Daisley

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Context (Field collection)
Santon Hoard (1897.218-1897.228). Found by a ‘labourer’ in his garden in Santon, Norfolk in September 1897

Event Date 9/1897
Author: Sam Daisley

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Description (Physical description)
Annual Report for AR 1898.89 reads: 'A steelyard with pendant chains, and a double hook; and a small scale (diameter 4"1), both of bronze; and a number of (?)small bronze weights'.
Event Date 1898
Author: Sam Daisley

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Context (References)
Von Hügel, Anatole. (1899). ‘Exhibition of Bronze and Iron Implements’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 9.4. pp. 430-431.
Event Date 1899
Author: Sam Daisley

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Context (References)
Smith, R.A. (1909). 'A Hoard of metal found at Santon Downham, Suffolk'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 13. pp. 146-163.
Event Date 1909
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Spratling, M.G. (1966). The Santon Hoard Reconsidered: A Rich burial of the mid-first century AD from Norfolk. Unpublished B.A. dissertation, University of Cardiff.
Event Date 1966
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Garrow, D., C. Gosden & J.D. Hill (eds). (2008). Rethinking Celtic Art. Oxbow: Oxford.
Event Date 2008
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Spratling, M.G. (2009). The Santon Hoard Reconsidered: A Rich burial of the mid-first century AD from Norfolk. Unpublished B.A. dissertation, University of Cardiff.
Event Date 2009
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Davies, M. (2014). Technology at the Transition: Relationships between Culture, Style and Function in the Late Iron Age Determined Through the Analysis of Artefacts. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Cardiff University. pp. 171-215.
Event Date 2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
A hollow casting bronze steelyard weight with open work design, once filled with red enamel but this is now green and largely missing. A small loop at the top would have suspended the weight to the steelyard. The underside of the weight has an open triskele design.
Event Date 14/12/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The original Spratling MGS number associated with this object was found to be from the earlier, 1966, iteration of his unpublished thesis, Spratling MGS 3. The updated, 2009, Spratling number is still Spratling MGS 3 and this has now been added in the Other numbers field (see Context: References).

Event Date 14/12/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The Accession Register for 1897.222 only lists A-B, a steelyard and scale, but no weight. In addition the weight has been incorrectly marked '1897.222 a' in white ink. The weight exists as part of AR 1898.89 in the 1898 annual report, along with the steelyard and scale (see physical description).

It is not known if the weight, or weights described in the Annual Report, were ever given an Accession Number, which may be why it has joined the 1897.222 accession as C. The decision has been made for the weight to retain the C suffix until the correct IDNO can be identified.
Event Date 17/6/2022
Author: Sam Daisley