Anglo Saxon treasure found

The Anglo Saxon treasure was found in a field in Staffordshire by a metal-detecting enthusiast last July.
A National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) grant of Ј1.285m has been added to money raised by a campaign involving Stoke and Birmingham councils.
The Memorial Fund grant stops the collection from being divided up and sold to private collectors, informs BBC.
Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of NHMF, said: "The Staffordshire Hoard is an extraordinary heritage treasure.
"It is exactly the sort of thing the National Heritage Memorial Fund was set up to save."
The haul, described as the UK's largest find of Anglo-Saxon treasure, comprises 1,600 items including sword pommels, helmet parts and processional crosses.
In total, it is made up 5kg of gold and 1.3kg of silver and is thought to date from the seventh century.
Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent city councils and The Art Fund said they had jointly donated Ј500,000 and last month the fund received Ј50,000 from a mystery benefactor.

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