Here’s one part that stood out for me: Is this an early example of a slogan like “Kill ‘em All and Let God Sort ‘em Out”?
A strip of gold with a biblical inscription was also folded in half: it reads, in occasionally misspelled Latin, “Rise up O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate the be driven from thy face.”
The misspelling gives credence to my theories about Anglo-Saxon rednecks, but this is for another time…
More from the Guardian:
A harvest of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field - the largest hoard of gold from the period ever found.
The weapons and helmet decorations, coins and Christian crosses amount to more than 1500 pieces, with hundreds still embedded in blocks of soil. It adds up to 5kg of gold ?