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Ken Hill, Snettisham, Norfolk Buried about 100BCE Snettisham is one of the key sites of British prehistory. Occupying a wooded hillside near the north-west coast of Norfolk, near Hunstanton, it first began to reveal its secrets in 1948 when five torcs were uncovered during ploughing. Further finds were made at the site in subsequent years. Some of these objects are now in Norwich Castle Museum. The objects now in the British Museum were discovered in 1950 and 1990. At least 12 groups of objects, known as hoards (hoards A-L), have been found at the site. They were buried in shallow pits, some barely large enough to contain a large torc. In adition to complete torcs, fragments of broken torcs, coins, rings and ingots were also deposited.
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London-British Museum-Killing an Prisoner91

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