How significant is the Staffordshire Hoard?

[kim6dubz6dem6truth86]

stolen in battle?yeah found in staffs stolen by birmingham and taken from staffordshire...and now they want to close our museum where it rightfully belongs.nice.................

[dim432]

not like the Hoxane Hoard that was discovered in 1992

[thedukeofantioch]

wonderfull finds from a time much better than this godless hellhole of modern britian.

[TheRadicalLiberal]

Debateable. Even the poorest Briton today lives better and longer than a Saxon king. If modern Brtain is a "hellhole" it is not because it is "godless", being godless is probably the reason for most of its better attributes.

[thedukeofantioch]

being godless means you get sent to hell.if you dont believe it now you will when you get there.

[honeyjinx02]

very exciting, and an amazing find for humankind, to be able to understand better a period of history so maligned

[holtongallery]

I need a metal detector - now.

[juergen4020]

fuck allah

[malbro6rg]

this was at such a little depth ,why not found earlier ?

what remains to be unearthed at greater depths ?

[malbro6rg]

this seems to be at little depth ?,how could it have not been unearthed before ? what is still to be found at greater depth ?

[TheRadicalLiberal]

Working the soil with modern techniques - applying artificial fertilizer rather than leaving your fields fallow to replace the soil naturally - tends to reduce the amount of soil. So the artifacts have been getting close to the surface year by year as the soil is depleted until finally the topmost ones were in range of the plow.

[fathomband]

In pure gold inlay on the sword-guards there were rune-markings correctly incised, stating and recording for whom the sword had been first made and ornamented with its scrollworked hilt. They stretched their beloved lord in his boat, laid out by the mast, amidships. the great ring-giver. Far-fetched treasures were piled on him, and precious gear. They said that of all the kings upon the earth he was the man most gracious and fair-minded, kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.

[calicheSCOT]

What a brilliant find! It begs the question of why it was buried in the field in the first place?

[BigMrFirebird]

Very significant.