HTTP:: Saxon Treasure Hoard Found
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The amazing, new find was made in Staffordshire, where archaeologists discovered the largest such pile of gold in the entire United Kingdom. The Anglo-Saxon hoard features approximately 1,500 pieces of silver and gold, and is estimated to be around 1,300 years old. Experts say that more than a year will most likely go by until the find is officially evaluated. Because South Staffordshire Coroner Andrew Haigh declared the find a treasure, it now officially belongs to the Crown, which means that the monarchy will claim it, the BBC News reports. The find was made by a Burntwood, Staffordshire resident, 55-year-old Terry Herbert, who was scanning the ground using a metal detector, a very common practice in looking for buried artifacts across the United Kigdom. The find “was what metal detectorists dream of,†he told the news agency in an interview, adding that the discovery was made on an average farmland. The newly found Staffordshire Hoard features, at first glance, abo!
ut five kilograms of gold and 2.5 kilograms of silver, authorities report. The find exceeds by far the Sutton Hoo discovery, made in 1939, which unveiled some 1.5 kilograms of gold near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, England. “This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries....
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