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Tuesday, 9th March 2010 (709 views)

Items from the Staffordshire Hoard of gold Anglo-Saxon artefacts will go back on display in Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham later this month.

A number of objects from the treasure trove recently went on display at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, with more items due to return to the museum - as well as to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - between March 13th and April 18th.

The Stoke-on-Trent exhibition will consist of 59 items that include a filigree horse's head, a gold plaque decorated with fish and bird images, and a gold strip with a biblical inscription.

Meanwhile, the Birmingham display will again include 59 artefacts, such as previously unseen helmet fragments, eagle and duck decorations, a red garnet stud and a crumpled gold cross.

Birmingham hosted an exhibition of items from the hoard last year.

"I am delighted that items from the Anglo-Saxon hoard will be back in Birmingham," commented councillor Martin Mullaney, cabinet member for leisure, sport and culture at Birmingham City Council.

The most recent exhibition in Stoke-on-Trent attracted more than 50,000 people in total.

It was so popular that the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery had to turn away new visitors at one point when the queue to get into the exhibition reached a waiting time of four hours, the BBC reports.

 

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