(11 Feb 2025)
UK UNEARTHED TREASURE
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK – 11 February 2025
1. Wide exterior of the British Museum
2. Mid set up shot of Helen Geake looking through microscope
3. Close of eyes on the eye-piece
4. Close top shot of Anglo-Saxon gold jewellery under the microscope
5. Mid of same
6. Close zoom of four Anglo-Saxon gold jewellery pieces discovered in 2023
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Geake, finds advisor, The British Museum:
"They’re Anglo-Saxon. They date from the seventh century (AD). So this is the time of burials such as Sutton Hoo and Prittlewell, who are rich men. Rich women tend to be buried very slightly later, around the middle of the second half of the seventh Century. And it’s the time when Anglo-Saxon women were actually quite powerful. They were doing things like running monasteries and so on. And Christianity was just on the cusp of being accepted, it’s the age of conversion to Christianity."
8. Wide of Helen Geake unpacking and examining Anglo-Saxon burial treasures
9. Close cut away of the jewellery
10. Mid low angle of Helen Geake examining jewellery
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Geake, finds advisor, The British Museum:
"It’s tempting to think that we’ve found everything, and we’ve found so much in a way that you can see why people think that maybe there isn’t very much left to find, but there is an amazing amount of stuff that seems to be left. Things are being found all the time. And sometimes that is a bit upsetting because in a case like this, what has almost certainly happened is that this rich female burial, this rich woman who’s been buried with these amazing pendants, her grave has been gone through by agricultural equipment and essentially has been destroyed."
12. Mid set up shot of Ian Richardson examining Athelstan’s silver coin
13. Close of Athelstan’s silver coin
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ian Richardson, Senior treasure registrar, The British Museum:
"Here we have a silver coin of the East Anglian king Athelstan the second, who was also the Viking ruler Gufram. So he adopted Christianity and was baptized as Athelstan. This is the first silver coin minted by a Scandinavian ruler in Britain in the late 800s (AD)."
15. Close pull of Ian Richardson looking at the coin
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ian Richardson, Senior treasure registrar, The British Museum:
"It’s also, for us, important because it’s the first find that’s been declared treasure under a new definition of treasure that came into place in 2023. It is, ordinarily a single silver coin wouldn’t be treasure. And so anyone who found something like this would be able to sell it, or keep it themselves. But because of the significance of this coin and what it tells us about this particular moment in history, it’s been declared a treasure."
17. Wide set up shot of Neil Wilkin unpacking Bronze age treasures
18. Close of Bronze Age axe head
19. Low angle of Neil Wilkin examining Bronze Age treasures
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Neil Wilkin, curator of early Europe, The British Museum:
"So what I have in front of me is a middle Bronze Age hoard, about 3,300 years old, of bronze objects. And we get quite a few of these through found by metal detectorists. But what makes this hoard exceptional and special is that it contains a small anvil for working precious metal. And that’s the earliest and first metal anvil found in Britain, so it’s a really important new discovery."
21. Close of first metal anvil discovered in Britain
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Neil Wilkin, curator of early Europe, British Museum:
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