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- 01The hoard weighed over 5 kg of gold and 1.4 kg of silver — the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found.
- 02A Latin biblical inscription on one gold strip reads: 'Rise up, O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed' — a war prayer.
- 03Every piece is military: sword pommels, helmet cheek-pieces, no domestic objects. Someone stripped the war-gear from the dead.