Precious Anglo-Saxon booty found!

[Zulu Romeo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm

The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.

Experts say the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, is unparalleled in size and worth "a seven figure sum".

It has been declared treasure by South Staffordshire coroner Andrew Haigh, meaning it belongs to the Crown.

Terry Herbert, who found it on farmland using a metal detector, said it "was what metal detectorists dream of".

It may take more than a year for it to be valued.

The Staffordshire hoard contains about 5kg of gold and 2.5kg of silver, making it far bigger than the Sutton Hoo discovery in 1939 when 1.5kg of Anglo-Saxon gold was found near Woodbridge in Suffolk.

This was all over the news this morning. A great and fascinating find for sure.

This will give historians so much more to study and ponder over about Great Britain's past. And of course be worth a fortune.

Hearing about it on the radio, apparently the metal-detectorist who found the haul should be entitled to a "finder's fee" as would the owner of the land on which the treasure was unearthed, so that although it now is in the Crown's hands and, as the great archaeologist said, "belongs in a museum," the finders might get something out of it.

 

[Holdfast]

Precious Anglo-Saxon booty found!

Thread is begging to turn into an sexy babes ass picture topic...

 

[trampledamage]

Hearing about it on the radio, apparently the metal-detectorist who found the haul should be entitled to a "finder's fee" as would the owner of the land on which the treasure was unearthed, so that although it now is in the Crown's hands and, as the great archaeologist said, "belongs in a museum," the finders might get something out of it.

That's cool They should definitely get a reward for handing it over, rather than keeping it and selling it privately.

When I clicked on the thread, I was wondering if you were going to manage some bizarre pun on "booty" though...

EDIT: Just read Holdfast's reply - seems I'm not the only one

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Precious Anglo-Saxon booty found!

Thread is begging to turn into an sexy babes ass picture topic...

I was hoping.

 

[Holdfast]

Precious Anglo-Saxon booty found!

Thread is begging to turn into an sexy babes ass picture topic...

I was hoping.

We can still live the dream. It only takes one pic to start the ball rolling.

Once the pics start, I call the over/under on thread closure by either SPOCKED or Bonz herself, at 15 posts.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

When I clicked on the thread, I was wondering if you were going to manage some bizarre pun on "booty" though...

EDIT: Just read Holdfast's reply - seems I'm not the only one

Today is International Talk Like An Anglo-Saxon Pirate Day.


Actually, be thankful. This thread could have turned into another excuse to resurrect the Glam Metal Detectives.

 

[broberfett]

So when it says it belongs to the crown, can Queen Elizabeth just walk in and have her servants scoop it up and take it back to her palace for keeps?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

So when it says it belongs to the crown, can Queen Elizabeth just walk in and have her servants scoop it up and take it back to her palace for keeps?

Missing cutlery. The Queen demands it back.

 

[RJDiogenes]

What a great historical find. I wonder how it got there.

I think it's great the way they handled it. The artifacts will go to be studied and put in a museum, but the finder and the property owner will still get a reward. Everybody wins.

We can still live the dream. It only takes one pic to start the ball rolling.

You're welcome.

 

[Skywalker]

^ One warning for...something.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Turning on the world?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It should have been different. The thread title was originally a line from Spandau Ballet's "Gold" (love that song ) but those pirates got the better of me. Again. Yarr.

 

[M'Sharak]

When I clicked on the thread, I was wondering if you were going to manage some bizarre pun on "booty" though...

ZR make a bizarre pun? Pfft, as if that ever happens.


Nifty historical find, though.

 

[Brent]

this thread has let me down

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

That's a lot of swag.

 

[SPOCKED]

What a great historical find. I wonder how it got there.

I think it's great the way they handled it. The artifacts will go to be studied and put in a museum, but the finder and the property owner will still get a reward. Everybody wins.

We can still live the dream. It only takes one pic to start the ball rolling.

You're welcome.

Hey Grapes, you ain't foolin' nobody with that tight, young ass -- the phone, monitor, and paneling suggest this pic was actually taken in the early 80s

 

[JuanBolio]

The age-old question of whether or not 10th-level Anglo-Saxon warriors dropped any good loot when they died has been answered.

Dibs on the +2 sword of wounding.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

That's a lot of swag.

For a moment, I thought you were talking about RJD's bottom...

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

That's a lot of swag.

For a moment, I thought you were talking about RJD's bottom...

That made me lol.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Hey Grapes, you ain't foolin' nobody with that tight, young ass -- the phone, monitor, and paneling suggest this pic was actually taken in the early 80s

What about the DVDs? The phone was purchased in 1989, the monitor in the mid-90s and the paneling was there when I moved in; and the ass is as young and tight as it's ever been.

That's a lot of swag.

For a moment, I thought you were talking about RJD's bottom...

No, that's a lot of swing.