In an Unmarked Field
Tom Shippey: The Staffordshire Hoard, 5 March 2020
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure
edited by Chris Fern, Tania Dickinson and Leslie Webster.
Society of Antiquaries, 640 pp., £45, November 2019,978 1 5272 3350 8 Show More
edited by Chris Fern, Tania Dickinson and Leslie Webster.
Society of Antiquaries, 640 pp., £45, November 2019,
“... The Staffordshire Hoard
, discovered by the metal detectorist Terry Herbert on 5 July 2009, presents far more of a puzzle to archaeologists and historians than the other famous Anglo-Saxon discovery, at Sutton Hoo. The start of the puzzle is working out what is there. The hoard weighs in at about five kilos of gold and almost two kilos of silver, and some claim you could pack it into a shoebox ... ”
