Medieval History
A very rare Anglo-Saxon gold ring is to go on display at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire after being shown in the BBC2 series Digging for Britain. The series also features excavations at Berkeley carried out by archaeologists from the University of Bristol who have uncovered evidence for a Dark Age monastery before the castle was constructed in the eleventh century.
The gold ring is believed to have been found as long ago as the eighteenth century and was first recorded in the castle?s collections in 1860. However, in recent years it has only been shown in public once at an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1972.
Now, thanks to renewed interest in Anglo-Saxon Berkeley due to the University of Bristol?s excavations, the castle authorities have decided to display the ring for a limited period during September.
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Medieval History
Rare Anglo-Saxon treasure sees the light of day
A very rare Anglo-Saxon gold ring is to go on display at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire after being shown in the BBC2 series Digging for Britain. The series also features excavations at Berkeley carried out by archaeologists from the University of Bristol who have uncovered evidence for a Dark Age monastery before the castle was constructed in the eleventh century.
The gold ring is believed to have been found as long ago as the eighteenth century and was first recorded in the castle?s collections in 1860. However, in recent years it has only been shown in public once at an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1972.
Now, thanks to renewed interest in Anglo-Saxon Berkeley due to the University of Bristol?s excavations, the castle authorities have decided to display the ring for a limited period during September.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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One of the earliest Anglo-Saxon Christian burial sites in Britain has been discovered in a village outside Cambridge. The grave of a teenage girl from the mid 7th century AD has an extraordinary combination of two extremely rare finds: a ?bed burial?...
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A rare medieval gold and diamond ring unearthed by a metal detector enthusiast in Leicestershire has sold at auction for £42,000. John Stevens, who found the ring on land near Fleckney, was celebrating after learning it had sold for more than twice the...
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The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium Announces a Colloquium at UC Berkeley "Mind, Soul, and In-Between: Mapping the Human Spirit in the Early Middle Ages." October 8, 2010 10 a.m.?3 p.m.. Wheeler Hall 306 Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of English...
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