The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered in July 2009, is the largest
hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. Leslie Webster, former
Keeper of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum describes
this discovery: …this is going to alter our perceptions of
Anglo-Saxon England in the seventh and early eighth century as
radically, if not moreso, as the 1939 Sutton Hoo discoveries
did; it will make historians and literary scholars review what
their sources tell us, and archaeologists and art-historians
rethink the chronology of metalwork and manuscripts; and it will
make us all think again about rising (and failing) kingdoms and
the expression of regional identities in this period, the
complicated transition from paganism to Christianity, the
conduct of battle and the nature of fine metalwork production –
to name only a few of the many huge issues it raises. A
selection of quality Staffordshire Hoard images is available on
Flickr. To download high resolution images for projection,
choose a thumbnail and then click on th