Ian Martin. Discovering the present through some familiar mysteries of the past

摘要

Monday. The recent discovery of theTamworth Hoard offers us a tantalising glimpse into the world of Anglo-Saxon culture, reaching back through history to a time when there was literally nothing to watch on TV.rnSuch dazzling artefacts! Buried as loot in the 7th century, harvested as treasure by some fat charmless bloke with a metal detector in the 21st, they offer a melancholy insight into a vanished world of political and artistic correctness. This is how we might all be living to this day, had treacherous Wessex and bastard Anglia not done a Murdoch on us and turned Mercia into the BSB of English kingdoms.