Hoxne Treasures, solar cross with wiggly tail on a spoon
European Museums, The British MuseumA cross on a spoon, one of the Hoxne Treasures
Treasure
In addition to the very large series of coins, the latest of which establish that the burial of the treasure took place after A.D. 407/8, the Hoxne hoard contains silver tableware and gold jewelry.
The silver objects are all of quite small size: nearly 100 spoons and ladles form the bulk of the inventory. Owners of such an extensive collection of silverware would almost certainly have possessed large table vessels such as those in the Mildenhall treasure. These may have been separately concealed elsewhere in another container or wrappings, and might have been dug up, unrecorded, at any time during the last 1600 years...
...preserved, fragments of iron bands and precise observation of the extent of the deposit made it possible to infer its size, approximately 60 x 45 x 30 cm.
The Hoxne treasure is significant in itself, as it is a large assemblage of valuables concealed after A.D. 407/8, the period when Roman rule was breaking down in Britain, but its importance for research in the future has been greatly enhanced by the fact that it was properly excavated and recorded.
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A cross on a spoon, one of the Hoxne Treasures
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