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Staffordshire Hoard

Hammerwich, Staffordshire

The largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found, under a farmer's field.

Metal detectorist Terry Herbert was searching a field near Hammerwich when he found the first piece. It turned into thousands of fragments of gold and silver, mostly fittings stripped from swords and helmets in the 7th century.

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When
Found July 2009
Where
52.6545, -1.8770
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

See it at Birmingham Museum and the Potteries Museum, Stoke.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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