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BrownhillsBob 27 Jan 11
The Hoard and Hammerwich
I see the childish posturing and infantile one-upmmanship over the Staffordshire Hoard still continues. I noticed that somebody – and I assume it’s Staffordshire or Lichfield Council – have decided to spend a load of cash on new signs.
The one (pictured) on the Lichfield Road at Sandhills pointlessly puffs the treasure’s discovery, apparently ‘…in the parish of Hammerwich’. I can see no particular justification for this ostentation. In this case, new posts have been erected and the superfluous signage has been added underneath the county boundary sign. I presume there must be other such notices at other locations, and to be honest, they’re causing me some confusion…
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The Birmingham Press 17 Jan 11
The Staffordshire Hoard will be coming ‘home’ this summer. Plans for a touring exhibition of star items from the world’s largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold to visit venues across the county are well underway.
The exhibition, which is set to visit Stafford’s Shire Hall, Lichfield Cathedral and Tamworth Castle between July and September, is seen as a way of thanking thank the thousands of local people who donated money to help keep the Hoard in Britain…
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BBC News 24 Sep 10
French experts are going to analyse part of the Staffordshire Hoard. Items with garnets embedded are being sent to the Louvre Museum in Paris in November.
Meanwhile, restored items from the UK’s largest find of Anglo-Saxon treasure. have gone on display in Stoke-on-Trent…
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B'ham Mail 16 Sep 10
A replica cross found as part of the Staffordshire Hoard is to be given to the Pope as a gift from the people of Birmingham.
Craftsmen and women in the Jewellery Quarter have been working round the clock to recreate a folded cross which was thought to have been deliberately bent in two to fit inside the seventh century hoard…
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Express & Star 18 Aug 10
A leading historian believes the fabulous Staffordshire Hoard may have been a ransom paid to the legendary Mercian pagan king Penda.
Michael Wood, an expert in the Anglo-Saxon era, said his best guess was that the treasure found in a field near Brownhills, had formed part of a payment “beyond belief” made to Penda by the Northumbrian king Oswald…
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Express & Star 19 Jul 10
A year on from discovering the fabulous Staffordshire Hoard metal detectorist Terry Herbert says he is still exactly the same person.
Now a millionaire, Terry, aged 56, from Burntwood, found the first piece of gold from the hoard in farmer Fred Johnson’s field at Hammerwich, near Brownhills, on July 5 last year.
Within days it became clear that through pursuing his much-loved hobby he had discovered the most important Anglo-Saxon treasure ever uncovered in England…
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Neil Elkes B'ham Mail 22 Jun 10
A burglar stole three pieces of Indian Jewellery from a display case at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
But luckily the sneak thief missed out on the larger prize, items from the priceless Staffordshire Hoard on show in a gallery nearby…
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Express & Star 6 Jun 10
Artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard could go on display in Stafford – if the borough council agrees to stump up £10,000 to support research and conservation work.
Bosses are hopeful they will be able to display some items from the 1,500-piece Anglo-Saxon collection at Stafford Castle or the Ancient High House…
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BrownhillsBob 19 May 10
I’ve not really mentioned the Staffordshire Hoard here on the Brownhills Blog. It’s not that I’m not interested in it – it’s a fascinating, huge discovery – it just seems to me that so much has been broadcast, written and said about this intriguing collection of ancient loot that I couldn’t possibly have anything to add.
…I know I’m not going to be popular for saying this, but…
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Douglas Birch, Letters Advertiser 16 Apr 10
Being a lifelong resident of Brownhills in the parish of Ogley Hay, and living a short walking distance from the site, I was absolutely delighted to read about the discovery of the so-called Staffordshire Hoard in a field on a Brownhills farm belonging to a long-established Brownhills family just off Barracks Lane.
Despite the 1974 boundary changes, by virtue of which we were press-ganged into Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council (WMBC), I am very proud to still consider myself to be a Staffordshire man, and I am extremely angry at the sheer audacity of those who call for Birmingham, Sandwell, Stoke-on-Trent and, latterly, Wolverhampton, to lay claim for the hoard to be displayed at their respective locations…