Anglo Saxon Treasures found
OOO...Check out the horizontally ribbed gold cup in the photo:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/default.asp?article_id=39009
It's called the Ringlemere Gold Cup and it is now on display at the British Museum.
It was found by a metal detector.
Here is a related article on Anglo Saxon graves
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/default.asp?article_id=39026
This second article mentions how they want to analyze the teeth to see what kind of minerals they absorbed from drinking water. The goal is to determine if they drunk water from Denmark or East Kent - giving an idea of where they were from.