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Staffordshire hoard: experts piece together rare warrior's helmet

More than 1,500 scraps of silver gilt foil from the Staffordshire hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure, including strips stamped with designs of warriors and beasts and other fragments the size of a fingernail, are being pieced together by archaeologists and conservators into a warrior's helmet of international importance - as it is one of only five ever found.
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Staffordshire Hoard: 'Opening a window into the Mercian kingdom'

Speculation has already begun about how much 81 newly-discovered pieces of the Staffordshire Hoard will be worth.
The pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver were declared treasure by coroner Andrew Haigh on Friday and will now be valued by the British Museum.
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The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found.  in a field near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England on 5 July 2009
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Staffordshire Hoard Excavation

Archaeologists from Birmingham Archaeology have been participating in the recovery of the UKs largest haul of Anglo Saxon gold, amounting to over 1,500 items. The find, initially discovered by detectorist Terry Herbert, was recovered from a field near Lichfield, Staffordshire. The hoard includes a minimum of 84 pommel caps and 71 sword hilt collars, items inlaid with previous stones and folded crosses. Leslie Webster, former keeper at the British Museums Department of Prehistory and Europe said "This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so than the Sutton Hoo discoveries."



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Papers from the Staffordshire Hoard

A Symposium was held at the British Museum in March 2010. Twenty seven papers were delivered and there was much useful discussion. Summaries of many of the papers, together with some of the discussion and subsequent thoughts, will be added to this page over the next few months. In some cases, the embedded images have been processed to allow for a zooming image interface.
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An unemployed metal detection enthusiast and a Staffordshire farmer are set to become millionaires following the discovery of a hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure which experts are likely to value at about £3m this week.
The gold and silver artefacts, which are already shedding new light on the Dark Ages, are collectively worth almost double the amount of the most expensive ancient treasure previously found in Britain.
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