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Huge Anglo-Saxon hoard found

farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
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Gold! Another report

No indication if coins were part of the hoard though.
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    FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518
    WOW!! That is a nice find!image
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    worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 2,999 ✭✭✭✭
    Fascinating! Wow.
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Aethelred, they've found your treasure! image

    What an incredible find. So many historically important artifacts. Such outstanding artwork! I'm speechless.


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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    That is really something.image
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    HussuloHussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭
    5kg of gold WoW. I really need to join aclub and start metal detecting.
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    JimKJimK Posts: 605


    << <i>Aethelred, they've found your treasure! image
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    True, as it was found in Mercia! Time to get out the old metal detector although I doubt I'll ever find anything this cool in Texas image

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    FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518

    These two pieces are simply amazing! I would love to see the rest. I can't see why there wouldn't be coins recovered, too. Keep us updated if any more pics become available.



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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭


    << <i>These two pieces are simply amazing! I would love to see the rest. I can't see why there wouldn't be coins recovered, too. Keep us updated if any more pics become available.



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    It seems most of these finds were the victor's spoils. Evidently, he met a mightier sword before he could buy a secure retirement villa......or hut, as it were.

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    SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I would love to see the rest. I can't see why there wouldn't be coins recovered, too. Keep us updated if any more pics become available. >>


    The Wikipedia article has some more pics; the official website for the hoard has pics of all the artifacts. No coins were in the hoard, just militaria and a few crosses.

    The Anglo-Saxons made very very few gold coins. It seems they preferred their bullion in jewellery form.
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Is it just my imagination, or are some of those artifacts made out of electrum? Many appear to have a duller, grayer hue to them, suggesting a certain silver content.

    Most impressive to me are the Christian symbols and writings, to see how early and how far Christianity had spread by the 5-7th Century AD.

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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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    sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The Christian artifacts are interesting to me too but for a different reason. It looks like a church was looted. The fact that some of the crosses were folded up presents an image of the gold being pried off and hastily crumpled up for easier transport. The prayer/Bible verse inscribed in Latin on one of the pieces also suggests a scene of violence. While the prayer was meant to bring victory in battle it is clear that it didn't help in this particular case. While it is obvious that people in that time and place held some measure of Christian belief, the violence suggested by the desecration of a church and the use of amulets inscribed with prayer (or perhaps something more akin to a spell?) in battle, these pieces also provide us with a vivid tableau of a rather un-Christian way of life.
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    sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    It would be interesting to know if the people who buried the hoard were themselves Christians. I suppose it is impossible to know. I see on the Wiki page for the hoard there is some speculation about that.
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