Warrior Treasure: The Staffordshire Hoard in Anglo-Saxon England

by Chris Fern and Jenni Butterworth

Book Overview

The Staffordshire Hoard is one of the great discoveries of British archaeology, an unparalleled treasure of the early Anglo-Saxon period. Chanced upon in summer 2009, in an ordinary field north of Birmingham, its hundreds of objects of the 6th to 7th centuries AD amount to a total of 4kg of gold and 1.7kg of silver. An archaeological excavation at the site was followed by a dedicated research project to understand why this trove of warriors and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800854811
• ISBN13: 9781800854819
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Historic England
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"