Description (Labels & Markings)
A label adhered to the object reads '[illegible] Suffolk Sept 1897.' in faded black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Production / use)
Part of the horse and chariot equipment represented within the Santon Hoard. See Mary Davis (2014), pp. 193-197, for details and analysis.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Found together / assemblage)
Seen wedged into 1897.220.4, a nave hoop tightener.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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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.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Four stout bronze hoops, L. 5".5, one with 1".2 wide projecting collar attached and one lose collar. Two small cup-like (?) moulds with concave bottom, and a small (semi-spherical) (?) moulds ([illegible])'

Event Date 1897
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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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: Lizzy Peneycad

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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: Lizzy Peneycad

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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: Lizzy Peneycad

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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. p. 152.
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: Eleanor Wilkinson

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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: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Description (Physical description)
A bronze nave hoop of thin, sheet bronze, made into a slight truncated conical shape. Two small tears can be seen at one edge. From the wheel of a chariot.
Event Date 3/12/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Amendments / updates)
It is likely that this nave hoop had an alternative accession number associated with it. Its label '[illegible] Suffolk Sept 1897' links it to other objects from Santon - [illegible] because the label is obscured by another object wedged on it. It is possible therefore that it was part of the 1897.179 group of material whose entry was crossed out in the accession register - a note next to this reads 'see no 218', as this is the start of the Santon hoard numbers. It is unclear when and why this occurred but it has been added to the MAA Number field as a tentative incorrect number. The object's current accession number, 1897.220.3 has been assigned in order to identify it from other bronze objects of this idno with the suffix .3 given to reflect the now new set of suffixes for all 1897.220 accession numbers. See individual records for objects .1-8 which actually reflect 2009 Spratling numbers 33-38 and 1966 Spratling numbers 34-39.
Event Date 3/12/2018
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 36. The updated, 2009, Spratling number is Spratling MGS 35 and this has now been added in the Other numbers field (see Context: References).

Event Date 6/12/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Description (Physical description)
Nave hoop of thin sheet bronze, slightly conical in section. Two small tears can be seen at one edge. From the wheel of a chariot.
Event Date 17/6/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad