Our object belongs to a fabulous collection of gold and silver buried in a field at Hoxne, Suffolk, around 410, and found nearly 1,600 years later ... in 1992. I'm holding a small statue of the ...
A History of the World in 100 Objects — Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (1 - 600 AD), Hoxne pepper pot 5 / 5 Neil MacGregor uses a silver pepper pot to tell of the Roman spice trade with India ...