Sutton who?

[caddyman]

It’s rare that my interest in early English history is rekindled by a news website, in fact I’d go so far as to say it’s never happened before. But today we have the once in a century report of a discovery that may lead to hefty revisions to the history books akin to those that followed the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939.

The largest ever Anglo-Saxon hoard has been found by a bloke with a metal detector in an undisclosed location in Staffordshire. The value of the 1,500 or so pieces of gold and silver found dwarfs the Sutton Hoo find and may possibly be valued in seven figures.

Archaeologists have described it as like finding the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels for the first time.

I hope that a revision to Sir Frank Stenton’s history comes out while I am still young enough to read it. Having worked for a couple of years at English Heritage in the mid 1980s, I rather doubt it…

Comments

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

One of my sword group is a metal detectorist in staffordshire who has been finding 'stuff' on another of the group's farms mostly roman fibula though...I'll let you know if he turns up to practice in a Rolls.