So, an amateur treasure hunter with a metal detector goes walking in his friend's field, and turns up this: http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/artefacts/ (http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/artefacts/)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3449/3930953675_2dba352106.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3944490322_132f677f1c.jpg)
1500 pieces of 7th-century gold and silver, the largest cache of Anglo-Saxon metalwork found in England.
Wow...