What Metal Detector Found The Staffordshire Hoard?

metal detectorist Herbert.
The Hoard was found by metal detectorist Herbert in a farmer’s field near Hammerwich, Staffordshire in 2009 and is Britain’s largest ever treasure case.

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How was the Staffordshire Hoard found?

Gold artefacts were discovered by Terry Herbert, a member of Bloxwich Research and Metal Detecting Club, on 5 July 2009, when he was searching an area of recently ploughed farmland near Hammerwich, Staffordshire, with a metal detector. Over the next five days, 244 gold objects were recovered from the soil.

How did Terry Herbert find the Staffordshire Hoard?

Terry Herbert, 56, unearthed the Staffordshire Hoard in July 2009, using a metal detector bought at a car boot sale for £2.50. He found it on farmer Fred Johnson’s land at Brownhills in the West Midlands. The £3.28million find transformed the men’s lives after they shared the reward equally.

How much did the finder of the Staffordshire Hoard get?

£3.2m
A farmer who shared a £3.2m windfall after the Staffordshire Hoard was discovered in his field has said the money has not changed him. Fred Johnson still lives on the farm where the biggest ever haul of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver was discovered 10 years ago by a metal detectorist.

What did Terry Herbert find?

But for Terry Herbert, an unemployed man from Staffordshire the dream has become a reality. Using his 14 year old metal detector on a friend’s freshly ploughed field in Staffordshire, he stumbled across the largest single find of Anglo-Saxon gold in history.

Who buried the Staffordshire Hoard?

We do not know who buried the hoard. It could have been one secretive individual or many people marking an important event. However, we do know about some of the people who were involved with the hoard before it was buried. Originally, the objects were worn by elite warriors, the top ranks of Anglo-Saxon society.

What happened to the Staffordshire Hoard after it was found?

All of the Staffordshire Hoard Treasure finds from 2009 and 2012 are now owned jointly by Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent City Councils on behalf of the nation, and cared for by Birmingham Museums Trust and the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.

What objects were found in the Staffordshire Hoard?

War Gear. Most gold objects found from the Anglo-Saxon era are pieces of jewellery such as brooches or pendants. The Staffordshire Hoard is unique in that it is almost entirely made up of war gear, especially sword fittings. Over 1,000 pieces are from a single, ornate helmet.

When was the Staffordshire Hoard buried?

The majority of the Staffordshire Hoard treasure was crafted between the mid-sixth and mid-seventh centuries AD and buried between 650-675 AD. It is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever discovered.

What does the Staffordshire Hoard tell us about the Anglo-Saxons?

Scientific analysis tells us that the Anglo-Saxon goldsmiths managed to change the surface of the objects to remove some of the silver. This has the effect of making the object look even more golden.

Is there still treasure to be found UK?

And this UK soil – as well as the waters surrounding the British Isles – has become home to thousands of objects that these ancient empires left behind. More than 1,000 discoveries are reported each year across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with most found by amateur archaeologists using metal detectors.

What was the biggest treasure find?

The largest monetary treasure haul found was on the wreck code named Black Swan, discovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007 off of Gibraltar. The salvage team reportedly found 17 tons of coins valued at $500 million; an amount that is both staggering and said to be “unprecedented” in the treasure hunting world.

What is Saxon gold worth?

3,285,000 million pounds
Experts on the government’s independent valuation committee said the 1,400-year-old treasure, the largest and most valuable such hoard ever found, was worth 3,285,000 million pounds.

What is the lemminkäinen hoard?

The ‘Lemminkäinen Hoard’, a mythical trove of gold, jewels and ancient artefacts, is said to be worth up to £15 billion and hidden in an underground temple in Finland.

Where was the Hoxne hoard found?

Suffolk
The hoard was discovered in a farm field about 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) southwest of the village of Hoxne in Suffolk on 16 November 1992. Tenant farmer Peter Whatling had lost a hammer and asked his friend Eric Lawes, a retired gardener and amateur metal detectorist, to help look for it.

Who owns the Sutton Hoo hoard?

National Trust
Sutton Hoo is the site of two early medieval cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near the English town of Woodbridge.
Sutton Hoo.

Who found the treasure at Sutton Hoo?

archaeologist Basil Brown
Amateur archaeologist Basil Brown famously made the discovery of a lifetime back in 1939, when he brushed away the Suffolk soil and revealed the richest intact early medieval grave in Europe.

Did Vikings bury their treasure?

Why did the Vikings bury treasure? The Vikings believed that things they placed in the ground or in water would be found by the gods. So perhaps treasures were offerings to the gods.

When did Mercia cease to exist?

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was from Repton in 873–874 that the Great Heathen Army deposed the King of Mercia. Slightly earlier, King Offa seems to have favoured Tamworth.
Mercia.

Where is the Sutton Hoo treasure?

The British Museum, London
Where’s the Treasure? The King’s Mound treasure is displayed in Room 41: Sutton Hoo and Europe, AD 300-1100 at The British Museum, London, where it can be seen in the context of the seismic changes taking place across Europe in the Early Medieval period.

Where was Mercia in the old days?

Mercia (Old English: Mierce, “border people”; IPA: [ˈmɜːʃiə]) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in what is now the Midlands of England.