The Snettisham, Norfolk, hoards of Iron Age torques: sacred or profane?

• Autores: A.P. Fitzpatrick
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 66, Nº 251, 1992, págs. 395-398
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The remarkable find of Iron Age gold torques from Snettisham (see ANTIQUITY 65: 447–65) was interpreted by the excavator, Ian Stead, as representing a treasury, ‘assigned to the earth for safe-keeping’, rather than a votive deposit. This article argues that these are not mutually exclusive categories, since no clear distinction was made in Iron Age Europe between sacred and profane.