#hoxne

While searching for a farmer’s lost hammer, English metal-detectorist Eric Lawes uncovered the Hoxne Hoard—Britain’s largest late-Roman treasure—and was legally awarded £1.75 million (shared with the landowner).

ARCHAEOLOGY Discovering the World’s Secrets - Hand-axes from #hoxne in #suffolk , unearthed by John Frere. #uk #acheulean #englandhistory #britishisles https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ECH1Zltyp/?igshid=qen75i9s3kzy

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A couple more treasure pictures from @merchantcantos book for the World Gold Council. This one is for Roman gold and silver items discovered by an amateur detectorist whilst looking for a lost hammer in Hoxne. #illustration #history #treasure #gold #hoxne #detectorist

Suffolk flowers 💜 #hoxne #suffolk #wildflowers (at Hoxne)

Via Wikipedia: "The Hoxne hoard pepper pot, commonly known as the Empress pepper pot, although it now seems not to represent an empress, is a silver piperatorium, partially gilded, dating from around 400 AD. It was found as part of the Hoxne Hoard in Hoxne, Suffolk, in November 1992, and is now in the British Museum, where it is normally on display. It is a hollow silver statuette of the top half of a woman's body, with a mechanism to allow ground pepper or spices to be loaded into its base and then shaken out. The mechanism does not grind the pepper and has a rotatable disc with three positions. One position allows filling, another has fine holes to allow ground pepper out and another allows the pot to be closed."