what a treasure!

The news Item was…
Largest Ever Hoard Of Anglo-Saxon Gold Found In Staffordshire (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/24/anglo-saxon-treasure-hoard-gold-staffordshire-metal-detector)


Right know I’m going to talk about a treasure found by an amateur metal detector called Terry Herbert, in july. The article, write Thursday 24 September 2009, starts with these words: “A harvest of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field - the largest hoard of gold from the period ever found.”
We are talking about amazing things here like weapons, helmets, coins crosses (Christians of course), 1500 pieces! And lots of gold, and as we can read “may be the swag from a spectacularly successful raiding party of warlike Mercians, sometime around AD700.” And that’s the greater part of this kinda cience called archaeology… you can find thing from thousands and thousands years back, and you don’t know what can you find until you dig in the tight place.
“The gold includes spectacular gem studded pieces decorated with tiny interlaced beasts, which were originally the ornamentation for Anglo-Saxon swords of princely quality: the experts would judge one a spectacular discovery, but the field has yielded 84 pommel caps and 71 hilt collars, a find without precedent.” Is written in the article, and I said it was a treasure, but it’s more than that! The pieces are dazzling… amazing and overwhelming.. if you watch the video in the page.. or some pictures… you will be able to agreed with me…
In the mean time investigators have problems with dating.. but there’s a lot of thing undiscovered besides that…
That’s the magic archaeology has…
And that’s why I love it!