THE Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, has been valued at £3.28 million (€3.6m), the British Museum has said.

AN expert on Anglo-Saxon inscription at University College Cork has helped to date part of a treasure hoard described as Britain’s equivalent to the Book of Kells.

AN amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard ever discovered, a massive collection of gold and silver crosses, sword decorations and other items, British archaeologists said yesterday.