The Snettisham Hoards (British Museum Research Publication 225)

REVIEW BY TIM PESTELL Only a handful of British archaeological sites can be truly described as iconic, but Snettisham in Norfolk has a strong claim, having become synonymous with the presence and hoarding there of Iron Age torcs. The questions of exactly how these pieces of jewellery were used and why this one site saw such prodigious quantities buried provide some of the themes addressed in this imposing pair of volumes, recently published by the British Museum. The publication is tremendously handsome, running to over 700 pages with full colour illustrations throughout. This is, then, not a light bedtime read but one to pay, like the torcs chronicled within, due reverence to. The re