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St. Mary's Church has a 14th century, 200 ft. high Spire . Nikolaus Pevsner called it ''"perhaps the most exciting decorated church in Norfolk"''. RSPB Snettisham is a Nature Reserve in the care of the Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds . It consists of bird lagoons and bird observation hides, including a rotary hide. The area faces The Wash which is a paradise for birds in its own right. The Snettisham coast is ''"where Norfolk stares at Lincolnshire "'', as the local saying goes. This means that, since Norfolk is a county with a very long coastline, it is unusual to be looking across the square-mouthed Estuary of The Wash at the county of Lincolnshire, only 15 miles away, as the crow flies. SNETTISHAM HOARD A series of discoveries from 1948 to 1973 of iron age precious metal. They consist metal, jet and over 150 complete gold Torque s dating from BC 70. Though the origins are unknown, it is of a quality to have been the royal treasury of the Iceni . In 1985 there was a find of Romano-British jewellery and raw materials buried in a clay pot in AD 155. Deposited in Castle Museum, Norwich and the British Museum . REFERENCES |
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