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By Evelyn Hill
The Staffordshire hoard
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The Staffordshire hoard is a collection of many different pieces of gold, jewels and metals from Anglo Saxon times.
The Staffordshire hoard was dug up in a field in Staffordshire.
I saw the hoard in the Museum in Birmingham.
What is the Staffordshire hoard?
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These people are people who dig up items from the past.
They clean them then put them on display.
The Archaeologists
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Cleaning the itemsWhen they first dig them up they are covered in mud.
They x-ray the mud if they don’t know what’s in there.
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They used thorns to pick out the mud. The reason they used thorns is so they didn’t scratch the object. Then they used a paint brush to gently brush off the bits of mud. Finally they put them in plastic bags with raffle tickets so that they don’t get mixed up.
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I couldn’t show you all of the items so I chose two of my favourites.
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The snakes are made of gold. We are not sure what they were used for but we think they were jewellery.
I like them because I like animals.
The snakes
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They didn’t find the blade of the sword but they did find the handle.
The swords were used for fighting, only the king and his soldiers had them.
The Swords