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: Katrina Dring

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: Katrina Dring

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: Katrina Dring

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

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 Unpublished B.A. dissertation, University of Cardiff.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

Context (Amendments / updates)
The numbering has been amended as follows; where an object has an indentifiable Accession Number from the 1897 register this has been used, with the M.G.Spratling number in the 'other numbers' field. If an accession number has multiple objects and records, the M.G.S number has been added to the suffix field to distinguish them. J.Somerville 15/5/2001.
Event Date 15/5/2001
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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

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 Unpublished B.A. dissertation, University of Cardiff.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

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, Cardiff University.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

Description (Physical description)
A short thin strip of bronze with heavily corroded and brown stained surface tapering to one end.
Event Date 11/1/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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 100.

Event Date 15/1/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was originally found astray and assigned the TEMP number TEMP.00753 (see MAA Nos.). However on study of both Spratling's catalogue (see References [1966] and [2009]) the dimensions of the strip found matches those described and so has been given the accession number 1897.227.56.2. Information has been added to this database record from that found with the other longer strip mentioned in the catalogues, 1897.227.56.1. The longer strip was previously catalogued as 1897.227.100 due to the use of Spratling's original catalogue from 1966. Because the two strips were catalogued together this has also been added as an incorrect number to this record.
Event Date 15/1/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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 100. The updated, 2009, Spratling number is Spratling MGS 87 and this has now been added in the Other numbers field (see Context: References).
Event Date 15/1/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson