Here are five pictures of some of the gorgeous artefacts unearted by a treasure hunter in Staffordshire.
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They're absolutely stunning.
It might actually be worth going to Birmingham to see them... ;-)
I thought exactly the same thing. And it's closer for me :-)!
The theory is that these were spoils of war between the Mercians and the Northumbrians or the East Angles.
To quote from Beowulf (no, I didn't look it up, someone else did in the paper this morning):
They let the ground Keep that ancestral treasure Gold under gravel, gone to earth As useless to men now as it ever was
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They're absolutely stunning.
It might actually be worth going to Birmingham to see them... ;-)
I thought exactly the same thing. And it's closer for me :-)!
The theory is that these were spoils of war between the Mercians and the Northumbrians or the East Angles.
To quote from Beowulf (no, I didn't look it up, someone else did in the paper this morning):
They let the ground
Keep that ancestral treasure
Gold under gravel, gone to earth
As useless to men now as it ever was