Comments on: Staffordshire hoard even more valuable than thought

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:59:43 +0000

Wow, thank you so much for the kind words.

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Neha — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:52:54 +0000

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By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:02:28 +0000

Do you mean in monetary value? Sutton Hoo wasn’t officially valued and its finder donated the treasure to the nation so there’s no easy comparison we can make. I’m sure if Mrs. Petty had chosen to sell the pieces one by one, she would have made more than $5.5 million, but then again, so would the landowner and finder of the Staffordshire Hoard.

Historical value I would say the advantage goes to Sutton Hoo, not so much because of the gorgeous richness of the artifacts, but because it was an intact ship burial done during a nebulous period of English history. What we’ve learned from Sutton Hoo is priceless.

By: Gayle M

Gayle M — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:14:46 +0000

This finding was so exciting to me as a former medievalist–it reminded me of the dragon’s hoard in Beowulf: “Then that huge legacy, gold of the ancient ones, was wound in a spell, so that no one of men must touch the ring-hall…they let the earth hold the wealth of earls, gold in the ground, where it now dwells, as useless to men as it was before…”

Do you know how this compares to the Sutton Hoo stuff, just offhand?