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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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 (Related Documents)
A loose label seen with the object is marked with the Santon Hoard idno on one side and on the other 'Part of ? 41 or ? 42 MGS 38 ? 41' in black ink. It is not clear when it is thought this object was associated with those Spratling MGS [1966] numbers. These numbers represent two fragments from a nave hoop and 3 fragments for a nave hoop tightener. The objects associated with Spratling MGS 41 and 42 [1966] have been assigned the idnos 1897.228.7.1-2 and 1897.228.9.1-3.
Event Date
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: Katrina Dring

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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: Katrina Dring

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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: Katrina Dring

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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 Unpublished B.A. dissertation, University of Cardiff.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: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Description (Physical description)
Spratling [2009]: 'NAVE HOOP, bronze, 140 mm diameter, 55 mm wide, 0.65 mm thick at cente to 1.4 mm at edges. 1897.227. FIGURE 13. Folded flat. Of sinuous profile with incise grooves defining the ribs and with a band of herringbone ornament made with a 2 mm-edged tracer along each edge' p.31.
Event Date 2009
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 that has been flattened and folded over multiple times. There is a strip of herringbone decoration along each edge with plain incised grooves between this ornamentation. There is lump of iron adhered to one side.
Event Date 23/1/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The original Spratling MGS number associated with this object was from the earlier, 1966, iteration of his unpublished thesis, Spratling MGS 32. The updated, 2009, Spratling number is Spratling MGS 31 and this has now been added in the Other numbers field (see Context: References).
Event Date 23/1/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson