All the news bulletins today have led on the fabulous 7th century Anglo-Saxon treasure unearthed somewhere in "Mercia". Over one and a half thousand golden objects have been dug up in a muddy field, mostly military items including gold sword pommels and a gold processional cross with a Biblical inscription invoking divine wrath against the "enemy" (writing in the 7th century was regarded as a form of magic). The find is considered equal to the epoch-defining Sutton Hoo treasure dug up in 1939.
Michael Wood appeared on BBC Radio 4's PM almost hyperventilating and babbling on about burnt woods and the cult of St Chad based at Lichfield.
Sneering Jon Snow reported the item on Channel 4 News. Looking at part of a golden helmet, magnified many times over on a screen, he said: "It doesn't look very English." The British Museum expert sitting in the studio corrected him: "It's actually classically Anglo-Saxon."
And not a peep so far from Francis Pryor and the other Anglo-Saxon migration deniers.
How is Francis Pryor going to explain all this away!
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm
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Well I think they should put him in jail for about 35 years and than Fry him crispy style.
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