The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure

About

Chris Fern is an independent heritage consultant and a research associate of the University of York specialising in the archaeology artefacts and art of early England (AD 450650).  He has published on the funerary practice of Sutton Hoo and other Anglo-Saxon cemeteries and concerning the period's horse culture and cult.  Dr Tania Dickinson is a specialist in the archaeology of early Anglo-Saxon England. She has written extensively on the burial practices artefacts and art of the period. She is a former senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology University of York where she now holds an honorary research associateship. Leslie Webster is Keeper Emerita of the British Museums Department of Britain Europe and Prehistory and former Senior Curator of the Early Medieval Collections; she is also currently Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology UCL. She lectures and publishes widely on Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology and has curated major exhibitions on Anglo-Saxon and Insular themes. Her most recent book is Anglo-Saxon Art: a New History (British Museum 2016).