![]() ![]() Her arms have been reconstructed with pieces (No. The breast and face of the goddess rotted away in the soil centuries ago. The silver figurine portrays Senuna as a graceful woman with hair coiled in a bun. "Servandus Hispani willingly fulfilled his vow to the goddess". One example reads,ĭEAE SENVA "To the goddess Senua Firmanus willingly fulfilled his vow." Īnother inscription found on a votive offering of jewellery was left by a man named Servandus of Spain: The Senuna hoard includes at least five inscriptions. There were also food offerings of piglets and small quantities of cremated human bone. Īs well as the jewellery, there were deposits of Celtic coins, mostly several centuries old at the time of deposition, and of Bronze Age metalwork, perhaps collected from local round barrows. An exhibit of offerings to Senuna may be seen in Room 49 of the British Museum, labelled "Near Baldock Hoard". All of the jewellery shared intricate decoration in minutely coiled wire, and the set may have been specially made as an offering. The jewellery incorporated older gems and glass beads, including a superb carved cameo of a lion trampling an ox skull which was already old and worn before it was set into the brooch. Some votive plaques were punched out in tiny holes, some incised. The plaques still have the metal tabs which allowed them to be set upright, and are so thin that they would then have shivered and glittered in any draught. The offerings to Senuna include silver plaques with gold highlights, seven gold plaques and a superb set of jewellery, including a brooch and cloak clasps. ![]()
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