The Staffordshire Hoard
- Date of account
- Discovered in 2009; mostly seventh century CE
- Location
- Hammerwich, Staffordshire, England
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Staffordshire Hoard is a large deposit of Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet military-style metalwork discovered by a metal-detectorist near Hammerwich. Its objects include helmet fittings, sword mounts and Christian as well as martial imagery, and the assemblage has been connected broadly with elite conflict and political change in seventh-century Mercia. The hoard matters because excavation, conservation and contextual recording transformed a spectacular discovery into evidence for craft production, exchange and warfare. Uncertainty remains about its original owner, exact deposition circumstances and whether all pieces belonged to one coherent event.
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