Friday, 30 April 2010

Has the Anglo-Saxon stone been saved?

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Earlier in the week we reported the consternation of historians over the sale of an Anglo-Saxon stone. Now the item has been withdrawn from ...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Anglo-Saxon treasures revealed by Parker Library website

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One of the most important collections of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts – for centuries kept at Corpus Christi College – has been entirely digitise...
Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Outcry as Anglo-Saxon Inscribed Stone Goes on Sale at Bonhams

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The CBA has written to Bonhams about this rare and vulnerable item of sculpture requesting that the lot is withdrawn. CBA Director Mike Heyw...

Save our Anglo-Saxon stone!

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Part of an ancient Northamptonshire monument to England's first female hermit is up for sale. Should it be allowed to leave Britain? At ...
Sunday, 18 April 2010

Social Networks for Archaeology

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The power and importance of social networks are growing all the time, not least in the field of archaeology. I thought that it would be usef...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Anglo-Saxon Stafford. Archaeological Investigations 1954-2004. Field Reports Online

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In July AD 913 Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, founded Stafford as part of a campaign for the recovery of England from the Danes. She was t...
Monday, 12 April 2010

TV Preview: Saxon Gold: Finding the Hoard C4, 9pm

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A REPEAT of the programme previously shown on National Geographic, Saxon Gold: Finding The Hoard recounts what happened when amateur metal d...
Sunday, 11 April 2010

Staffordshire Hoard location revealed

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The secret location where the multi-million pound Staffordshire Hoard was unearthed is to be revealed for the first time in a television doc...
Friday, 9 April 2010

Staffordshire and Tamworth and announce £100,000 Hoard contribution

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Staffordshire County Council and Tamworth Borough Council officially announced a £100,000 contribution to the Staffordshire Hoard Fund today...
Saturday, 27 March 2010

Second dig on Staffordshire Hoard site to learn more about the treasure

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A SECOND dig at the site of the Staffordshire Hoard has finished as archaeologists try to learn more about the Anglo Saxon treasure. The dig...
Friday, 26 March 2010

Lichfield Cathedral to be part of Staffordshire Hoard’s Mercian Trail

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Lichfield Cathedral will be part of a new Mercian Trail, being created as part of plans to showcase the magnificent Staffordshire Hoard on A...

Team digs for clues at Staffordshire Hoard site

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EXPERTS have spent the week digging up the Hammerwich field where the Staffordshire Hoard was found. But the archeologists say there is defi...
Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Staffordshire Hoard saved for the nation

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The collection - the largest ever find of Anglo-Saxon gold - was unearthed on Staffordshire farmland by a metal detector enthusiast last yea...

Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire hoard saved by £1.3m heritage grant

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The Staffordshire hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure found last year will receive a £1.3m Heritage Memorial Fund grant to allow it to remain in M...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Staffordshire Hoard saved for the West Midlands

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The Staffordshire Hoard is to remain in the West Midlands after the £3.3m purchase price was met. The Anglo Saxon treasure was found in a fi...
Monday, 22 March 2010

Ridgeway Vikings exhibition attracts huge crowds

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THOUSANDS gathered at an exhibition in Weymouth to see the archaeological treasures unearthed during building of the town’s Relief Road. The...
Friday, 19 March 2010

Fresh dig at Staffordshire hoard treasure site

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Another dig is to be held at the site of where the UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure was discovered. The original find of 1,500 ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010

Weymouth ridgeway skeletons 'Scandinavian Vikings'

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Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset were those of Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say. Mystery has surrounded t...

Illegal metal detecting crackdown

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Archaeologists are to team up with police in a bid to crack down on illegal metal detecting in Norfolk. Norfolk has the highest number of re...

Previews of Staffordshire Hoard film to be shown in Stoke-on-Trent

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Special preview screenings of a National Geographic film about the Staffordshire Hoard are to take place at The Potteries Museum in Stoke-on...