The Institute for Conservation has short-listed Birmingham Museum’s work for the Keck prize. The institute, a charity that encourages and supports the preservation of historical and artistic works, presents the award every two years. It is meant to be given to “the individual or group who has contributed most towards promoting public understanding and appreciation…
Treasure! The vaults of museums around the world are filled with precious antiquities, but who knows how many historical gems are still out there waiting to be unearthed? This list shows, that anyone can strike it lucky… even you. So grab your metal detector and get searching. Advanced modern technology and availability of equipment made…
Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent in discussions over world tour. A selection of pieces from the Staffordshire Hoard may go on show in museums worldwide as part of an international tour. Birmingham City Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, the joint owners of the Anglo Saxon treasure trove, say that they are in discussions about sending the seventh-century…
All 4,000 pieces of the UK’s largest find of Anglo-Saxon objects have been brought together for the first time since their discovery. The Staffordshire Hoard, which is valued at £3.2m, attracted worldwide attention when it was found in 2009. Read more at BBC News website
There could be gold buried under M6 Toll says Farmer Fred Johnson owner of land where Staffordshire Hoard was found Published by Birmingham mail Thursday, December 26th, 2013 Soil from the fields where the greatest ever haul of Saxon treasure was discovered was shovelled onto the M6 Toll Road – adding to belief there…
A three-year touring Staffordshire Hoard exhibition has been launched The hoard comprises more than 1,500 Anglo-Saxon items found with a metal detector by Terry Herbert buried on a farm in Staffordshire in July 2009. The collection was subsequently valued at £3.3m and is now owned by Birmingham City Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council. The three-year touring…
Published by ITV.com, Tuesday 18th December 2012 Around 90 new pieces of gold and silver, thought to belong to the Staffordshire Hoard have been discovered. Archeologists made the find in the same field where the 3,500 pieces of the Hoard were unearthed in 2009. Among the new pieces are what is believed to be parts…
Published by Staffordshire Hoard, December 18, 2012 Archaeologists working for Staffordshire County Council and English Heritage made the discovery when they were on site following the recent ploughing of the same field at Hammerwich, near Lichfield. Approximately 90 pieces of gold and silver have been recovered in this work; many of these items weigh less…
Published by This is Staffordshire, written by Maryann Astle, Tuesday 18th December 2012. ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered 90 more pieces of the Staffordshire Hoard – in the same field as the original find. The discovery was made by archaeologists working for Staffordshire Council and English Heritage when they were working on the site following the…
Published by The Sentinel, Monday 9th July, 2012 THE secrets of the Staffordshire Hoard are set to be unlocked by a major research project. A £276,000 grant from English Heritage will allow the hoard’s 3,500 items to be properly catalogued for the first time. – Taken from Article Click the image below to read further: …