Staffordshire Hoard Home Website - glorious photos, stories

[tmoffatt]

Working fast, there is now a home website for the incredible STAFFORDSHIRE HOARD - http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/

Later today, Thurs., 24 Sep 2009, Terry Herbert, the metal detectorist discoverer, is supposed to be giving his one and only account of the find.

1,500 artifacts - 5kg/12lb of gold - and the secret site in Staffordshire has been thoroughly gone over by the archeologists. Good stuff!

Terry Herbert has been metal detecting for 18 years. Lives on disability, but works right. All rules followed - signed and agreed working relationship with the farmer; informed the proper authorities, and stands to make in excess of

 

[grumpyolman]

I'd like to read it but the top URL doesn't seem to work. Tried it a couple of times and did the refresh only to get a blank screen.

The second URL worked fine. What's a hilt? Something on a sword?

There should be more of this around as it's a fantastic find. Even better is the way the archeologists, the government, and the metal detector community work in harmony. It's a win-win situation. To bad it doesn't happen in the US. Jim

 

[tmoffatt]

The top website address is correct - and works on Friday. The traffic on it was maxed to the max yesterday. Seems the whole world wanted to see the site, and the artifacts.

An excellent site, by the way, and created in the space of a day.

Tom Moffatt

 

[tmoffatt]

Note that the staffordshire hoard website continues to evolve. The section devoted to "artefacts" now has both a table of known items (1385 of them) and, more interestingly, a .pdf of initial interpretation and description (10 pages) well worth reading. The metal detectorist continued involved with the DIG and contributed through that period, continuing to find stuff, and to extract blocks of earth that have been x-rayed and will later be dissected for material.