Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found

BBC ^ | 24 September 2009 | BBC

[far sider]

Thanks for the cultural education. I read and enjoyed your homepage. I enjoy learning new words, like plonker. (I’ll try never to be one.)

[agere_contra]

See my 16 for a possible interpretation of the inscription.

Didn't know you guys were having to live with attack-ads on the word 'hoard', my apologies. Communist states routinely attack people who hold property away from 'rightful', 'communal' use, and it's starting where you are :0(

[MortMan]

I wondered where I left that stuff... ;-P

[mdmathis6]

King Arthur?

[mdmathis6]

I have a very good feeling that the original owner was a very good guy!

[SES1066]

I hereby CONFIDENTLY predict that metal detector sales will increase in that area of England! For those interested, there still remains a known but never (officially) rediscovered lost treasure in England, King John's Royal Treasure at the Wash of East Anglia. To find that would be another real find but unlikely in the extreme.

[agere_contra]

My guess is that this treasure is indeed a King’s Treasure - possibly the treasure of the Kings of Northumbria from about 650 AD.

Reason: if I have learned anything at all from years of playing “Medieval Total War”, it’s that the Northumbrians were Christian and well-lettered before anyone else in England. Whereas Penda of Mercia (where the treasure was found) was a Pagan.

[csvset]

Interesting story. Cutting across the mudflats wasn’t a good idea.

[Just mythoughts]

This is the time between a legendary myth, King Arthur, and the legendary King Alfred the Great. It is the time of the great (and almost only) historian of that time, Bede of Northumbria. This will be fascinating to follow as it opens more study of this time. On a bicycle trip to England in the late 90s it became impressed upon me on how dense history clings to every inch of England. I stood at Stonehenge at dawn and thought of all of those who have stood there over the past millenniaS!

It is the date fixed to this find that interests me as well. And why I would like to know about the inscription on that gold band. Whom ever imprinted that inscription was not an unlearned village idiot. And there is something curious about the timeliness of this find most especially in the UK.

[agere_contra]

If I had to guess I’d say this stuff was once the regalia of Edwin of Northumbria.

[snarks_when_bored]

And given the negative connotation the word hoard has to some, wonder why the author or whom ever decided to use this word to describe this find.

I guess you're worried about sentences such as: "She hoard until the age of 30, after which she retired and opened her own betrothal."

[mad_as_he$$]

I have always hoped that someday Excalibur would be found.

[mdmathis6]

Like perhaps God and the ancient Christian Kings of Northumbria calling Britons home to their roots, perhaps?

[Just mythoughts]

I think the inscription must be the following (judging by the visible sections). Exsurgat Deus, et dissipentur inimici eius: et fugiant, qui oderunt eum, a facie eius. God ariseth, and doth scatter his enemies: they flee, they who hate him, from before his face.

Thank you!! My King James Version has this verse as Psalms 68:1 Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered: Let them also that hate Him flee before Him.

Very interesting Song of David to be referenced given what the rest of the Song says.

Thank you very much.

[TheLurkerX]

Think I’d have kept my mouth shut about it. It didn’t belong to the Crown when the owner was alive, so why the hell should it belong to them now?

[Just mythoughts]

I guess you're worried about sentences such as: "She hoard until the age of 30, after which she retired and opened her own betrothal."

lol I am not 'worried', I wanted to know the reasoning behind the word 'hoard' in describing this treasure that has so many in stunned disbelief. And given the days we now are facing concern by the nose picking governing officials about 'hoarding' food, guns, ammo, etc.... and the recent ads showing hoarders living in mass confusion of saving everything, living in what looks like a city dump.

[FReepaholic]

...You must have miss read the article..read it again...

What, read the article before making snide comments? Are you mad?

[Just mythoughts]

Like perhaps God and the ancient Christian Kings of Northumbria calling Britons home to their roots, perhaps?

Could well be. My head is flooded with promises given by the Heavenly Father and this find certainly draws attention to King David if that inscription is from the Psalms.

[agere_contra]

Ah I'm not worried about the 'Crown' getting in. The guy could hardly have made more money if he'd dug it up in Vegas. Everybody concerned is happy about this.

Although the sale is indeed forced under the Treasure Trove act, the pricing is done over a period of months by independent experts. Keelo vs New London this ain't.

And it's way better than what happened in 1933, when the Roosevelt Gold Confiscation Order seized all Gold in the US with no compensation except for transportation costs, and under threat of a ten-year prison sentence. I still can't believe that really happened.

[agere_contra]

Weirdly enough, the Roosevelt Gold Confiscation Order also talks disparagingly of “hoarding”. It must be a common meme among despots :0)