Best ever Anglo-Saxon Treasures found


	Best ever Anglo-Saxon Treasures found
JohnWaterman
9-24-2009 11:08 AM
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9-24-2009 11:09 AM
JohnWaterman
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More info and yet more pics
9-24-2009 11:33 AM
cakebelly
Double wow! Just when you thought it couldn't get any better than Sutton Hoo.
9-24-2009 1:50 PM
wiganfootie
Fantastic
9-25-2009 12:42 AM
lollipop10
It must have been so exciting to find that hoard!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a2427b3-51ce-439f-b12a-ff74ec097353/61680D51-53CE-415A-BEA9-A9447E58CCD5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=2" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/9EFFDF08-4194-4591-8FFE-443BCF9BAAFD" alt="Gold hilt fitting with inlaid garnets" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html"><P>
A treasure hunter has unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever 
  found, in a find archaeologists have said may be even more significant than 
  the discovery of a burial ship at Sutton Hoo 70 years ago. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/5F05251B-0008-40C0-A2C1-BDBC26AA6877" alt="Pieces from an Anglo-Saxon hoard found by Terry Herbert" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=1" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/394AC68B-BE61-4054-932A-2074DA53F9C6" alt="Terry Herbert from Burntwood, Staffordshire with a helmet cheek plate, one of more than 1,500 pieces he found in a field near his home with a metal detector" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=1"><P>
Terry Herbert, from Burntwood, Staffordshire, came across the hoard as he 
  searched a field near his home with his trusty 14-year-old metal detector
</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=2" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=2">Experts said the collection of more than 1,500 pieces</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=2">is unparalleled in 
  size and may have belonged to Saxon royalty
</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=3" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=3" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/85022B75-4BA9-4749-B17A-2A025EB28BB6" alt="A figure of an animal, possible from the crest of a helmet" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=3"><P>
The hoard, believed to date back to the Seventh Century, contains around 5kg 
  of gold and 2.5kg of silver, far bigger than previous finds - including the 
  Sutton Hoo site
</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=4" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=4" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=4"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/094497D1-15DB-4CAD-AC0C-E9D7B1F90A89" alt="An Anglo-Saxon helmet cheek piece" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html?image=4"><P>
Experts are piecing together what they believe are parts from several 
  splendidly decorated helmets, including what appears to be a cheek-piece 
  with a frieze of running animals. It has a relatively low gold content and 
  has been specially alloyed, probably to make it more functional and able to 
  withstand blows
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