Random: The Discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard

[novak]

Holy Moses! It is now being announced that in July, a massive, unprecedented hoard of Anglo-Saxon art in gold, silver, and precious stones was unearthed in Straffordshire. The "Staffordshire Hoard" is one of the great finds of my lifetime, tied only perhaps by the Ivory Pomegranate of the Temple of Solomon, the inscription of which is now debated

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[amea]

SO COOL. I am a sucker for anything Anglo-Saxon. Absolute sucker. So now I want to prowl around the hoard and not teach my Jane Austen class. Thanks for sharing... this kinda made my day. Just a little bit.

[novak]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the news as much as you did, although I hope this didn't stop you from teaching. (Especially Northanger Abbey, which friede just got me to read for the first time in the last year, with a hand-annotated copy, no less, and which I thoroughly enjoyed.)

[verdanthe]

just wait until they find the remains of its dragon

[novak]

:-D

A fabulous image!

[mushfromnewsies]

Dude, AWESOME! Thanks so much for posting this! I'm gonna send it around to everyone I know, lol...

[novak]

Great fun, no?

[wildhunter]

I'm an archaeology junky, and hearing about this made my week.

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[novak]

If that's the case, then it better have! It's that stunning!

[saralinda]

This is FANTASTIC!!!!

[novak]

Quite!