This was fancier and had more gold than the Sutton Hoo helmet, which probably belonged to King Raedwald of East Anglia, so it likely also belonged to a king. Which gets me back to the weirdness of the Staffordshire Hoard; why was all this magnificent stuff hacked to pieces, then buried and lost? Quite likely we are looking at what was looted from a whole royal army; how could you lose that?
Ah, well, it was a good thing for us anyway that this great treasure was forgotten, so that we can see it today.
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