Buried Treasure: The Staffordshire Hoard

摘要

The city of Birmingham in the English Midlands has always been a metalworking town. In its beginnings in the Middle Ages, it was a center of ironworking. By the 1700s, it was the European capital of button-making and fancy metal goods. The growth of its jewelry industry and mass production brought wealth and renown in the Victorian period and stimulated a powerful reaction of craft metalworking in the early 20th century. Today the city is still a major hub of training, research, and innovation in jewelry and metals.