Raymond
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What a treasure.The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found has officially been declared to be treasure.
The ruling by South Staffordshire coroner Andrew Haigh means the haul of at least 1,345 items will now be valued by a committee of experts before being offered for sale.
Ruling the cache of gold and silver items - much of it taken from weaponry - to be treasure, Mr Haigh said: "This is a magnificent find, both in terms of its content and its likely history."
Roger Bland, head of portable antiquities and treasure at the British Museum, told the inquest in Cannock that the significance of the find was "only beginning to dawn" on the small number of experts who have examined it.
A total of 1,345 items have been examined by experts, although the list includes 56 clods of earth which have been X-rayed and are known to contain further metal artefacts, meaning the total number of items is likely to rise to around 1,500.
Mr Bland told the coroner: "It is at least as significant as any of the major discoveries of this period that have been made in the past."
Conceding that it may be difficult to establish the story which lies behind the astonishing find, Mr Bland added: "It is a fantastically important discovery.
"It is assumed that the items were buried by their owners at a time of danger with the intention of later coming back and recovering them."
The inquest heard that the haul was found by metal detectorist Terry Herbert just below the surface of a cultivated field in south Staffordshire in July.
Mr Bland said the hoard - thought to date back to between 675 and 725AD - was unearthed in what was once the Kingdom of Mercia. "I think wealth of this kind must have belonged to a king but we cannot say that for absolute certain," the expert told Mr Haigh.
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david hobbs
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Is this going to be placed on show in a museum.
I wonder what if anything the finder will get from this.
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matt
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| david hobbs wrote: | Is this going to be placed on show in a museum.
I wonder what if anything the finder will get from this. |
I'm guessing they will get a percentage of the total worth of the find along with the landowner.
Don't know how much that will be but i think they will be set for life now.
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Raymond
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Lucky gits.
As far as I can make out all the stuff will be privately sold. The owners may choose to display them in museums, what would be the point of buying this stuff and then just keeping it sitting in a safe?
It would be a shame if it gets sold abroad.
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Raymond
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More pictures of the find:
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sheelanagig
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All this was found about 5 miles from where I live....
Now where is my metal detector.....
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david hobbs
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I heard on the news that the value of the goods is to be divided between the landowner and the finder.
Surely these things are national treasures and should be bought by the state.
Placed in a museum the money they could raise from interested public would amount to a substantial revenue.
But perhaps preserving things for our children's future is silly.
Yes come to think of it let's sell of the family silver and to hell with our descendent's.
Let's have a good spend up.
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Raymond
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Sounds good to me!
Sod the decendants! Nobody ever gave us anything. They can fend for themselves.
LOL!
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david hobbs
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| Raymond wrote: | Sounds good to me!
Sod the decendants! Nobody ever gave us anything. They can fend for themselves.
LOL! |
That is the most crass statement I have ever heard you come out with.
Did you wipe your own arse as a baby and progress to doing and knowing everything from there all on your own.
Of course you didn't.
We are all products of the past and enjoy both the good and the bad things passed down from previous generationsI have always held that we in the west ignore the lessons our ancestors to much, and of course we also ignore the needs of future generations.
Perhaps if we worked not for ourselves but for the future of those to come we would feel more fullfiled and less unhappy.
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Raymond
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Chill out Hobbs, I was joking.
Sheesh!
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david hobbs
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Now don't spoil it I'm in full swing here.
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Raymond
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Stop swinging Hobbs. At your age you'll do yourself an injury.
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david hobbs
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Can't even get a decent ruck going on here
Bah!
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Raymond
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We had a chance of that with BLZBUBB, but ooooooohhh no! You had to come on here and be the voice of reason.
And now he seems to have gone.
Well done on that.
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david hobbs
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Yes but I thought he might just be the real Beelzebub and let's face it that would have been interesting.
For a start he might think that you were after his job.
Sorry if I spoilt thing between you and your fwendy
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Raymond
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I've already PM'd him and apologised on your behalf and told him he's welcome to come back and kick off anytime.
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Bravo
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Most of that jewellery is crap anyway, can get better in Argos
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evergreen
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for heavens sake buy it off the people and keep it in a museum
what is incredible is how many times that field must have been dug up and planted .. without any discovery
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david hobbs
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| Bravo wrote: | | Most of that jewellery is crap anyway, can get better in Argos |
Yes the Hatton Garden of the north.
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white wolf
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I have seen what crap ratners dished out this stuff is quality.
ww
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Raymond
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ww, Bravo is a northerner. Up there the kids are told if they behave they'll get a day out in LIDL.
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sheelanagig
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Hey get it right.......
They get an outing to the Oxfam shop....
Moneys too tight for LIDL
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david hobbs
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He's just biding his time you know
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Raymond
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Yes. He'll send his whippits after us.
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beantighe
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What's tickling me is the advert that's just under your post, Raymond!
Scrap Gold! We pay best prices for scrap gold and silver - click here for quote!
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