Snettisham
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Snettisham is a village on the west coast of Norfolk, England, about 2 miles north of the Royal Family's residence at Sandringham.
St. Mary's Church has a 14th century, 200 ft. high spire. Nikolaus Pevsner called it "perhaps the most exciting decorated church in Norfolk".
RSPB Snettisham is a nature reserve in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It consists of bird lagoons and bird observation hides, including a rotary hide.
The area faces The Wash which is a paradise for birds in its own right. The Snettisham coast is "where Norfolk stares at Lincolnshire", as the local saying goes. This means that, since Norfolk is a county with a very long coastline, it is unusual to be looking across the square-mouthed estuary of The Wash at the county of Lincolnshire, only 15 miles away, as the crow flies.
Snettisham Hoard
A series of discoveries from 1948 to 1973 of iron age precious metal. They consist metal, jet and over 150 complete gold torques dating from BC 70. Though the origins are unknown, it is of a quality to have been the royal treasury of the Iceni. In 1985 there was a find of Romano-British jewellery and raw materials buried in a clay pot in AD 155. Deposited in Castle Museum, Norwich and the British Museum.
External Links
Details of the hoard. http://www.cix.co.uk/~archaeology/hilites/snet.htm
Jewellers hoard. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ1424
External Sources
The Snettisham Roman Jeweller's Hoard by Catherine Johns (British Museum Press, 1997) £35