Angela
Elite member
- Messages
- 21,823
- Reaction score
- 12,327
- Points
- 113
- Ethnic group
- Italian
See:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1572591780
A major study is coming out on it.
[FONT="]"It is likely that the treasures, now known as [/FONT]the Staffordshire Hoard[FONT="], were seized (in perhaps between three and six substantial military encounters) by the English midlands kingdom of Mercia from the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia and possibly Wessex."
[/FONT]"[FONT="]Instead, the study demonstrates that the material is almost exclusively military in nature. Even one of the small number of ecclesiastical objects in the hoard appears to have been of a potentially military character.[/FONT]
There are nice pictures of some of the 700 pieces.[/FONT]
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1572591780
A major study is coming out on it.
[FONT="]"It is likely that the treasures, now known as [/FONT]the Staffordshire Hoard[FONT="], were seized (in perhaps between three and six substantial military encounters) by the English midlands kingdom of Mercia from the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia and possibly Wessex."
[/FONT]"[FONT="]Instead, the study demonstrates that the material is almost exclusively military in nature. Even one of the small number of ecclesiastical objects in the hoard appears to have been of a potentially military character.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]The hoard was made up of golden fittings from up to 150 swords, gold and garnet elements of a very high status seax (fighting knife), a spectacular gilded silver helmet, an impressive 30cm-long golden cross, a beautiful gold and garnet pectoral cross, a probable bishop’s headdress – and parts of what is likely to have been a portable battlefield shrine or reliquary."There are nice pictures of some of the 700 pieces.[/FONT]