Medieval History
More than one hundred artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard ? the largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered ? will be displayed in Washington D.C. later this year.
The exhibition, called ?Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from England?s Dark Ages? will be open at the National Geographic Museum from October 29, 2011 to March 4, 2012.
The Staffordshire Hoard comprises more than 3,300 mainly gold and silver artefacts from the seventh and eighth centuries. The haul is made up of intricately designed articles of war, including helmet cheek pieces, sword pommels and religious crosses. Experts believe that some of the items were deliberately folded before being buried and that the treasure could be the booty from a battlefield from the ancient kingdom of Mercia.
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Medieval History
Staffordshire Hoard is coming to America
More than one hundred artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard ? the largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered ? will be displayed in Washington D.C. later this year.
The exhibition, called ?Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from England?s Dark Ages? will be open at the National Geographic Museum from October 29, 2011 to March 4, 2012.
The Staffordshire Hoard comprises more than 3,300 mainly gold and silver artefacts from the seventh and eighth centuries. The haul is made up of intricately designed articles of war, including helmet cheek pieces, sword pommels and religious crosses. Experts believe that some of the items were deliberately folded before being buried and that the treasure could be the booty from a battlefield from the ancient kingdom of Mercia.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- More Pieces From The Staffordshire Hoard Discovered
The Staffordshire Hoard has now grown by a further 81 pieces, after a Coroner?s Court declared yesterday that the newly found objects were part of the Anglo-Saxon treasure. South Staffordshire Coroner Andrew Haigh ruled that 81 of the 91 pieces...
- Campaign To Save The Staffordshire Hoard Begins
Historian David Starkey made a passionate plea for funds to keep the Staffordshire Hoard for the area where it was found. He was among several prominent public figures supporting the campaign, launched by The Art Fund charity, to raise the £3.3 million...
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A historian has called the newspaper and television coverage of the Staffordshire Hoard discovery "crass and trivial." In a column for History Today, Justin Pollard, author of Alfred the Great: The Man who Made England and Secret Britain: The Hidden Bits...
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Kirkleatham Museum to display jewels from Cleveland grave of Anglo-Saxon princess Ancient skull unearthed on farm Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery Skeleton revealed by excavation Video: Bodies found in a Peterborough...
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Outside of the United Kingdom, when you think 'hoards' in Britain, you would not be blamed for thinking of the bounteous Eighth Century Sutton Hoo Hoard in East Anglia with its stunning gold and silver helmet inlaid with garnets, elaborate brooches,...