To mark the start of Hoarding Awareness Week (12–16 May) the UK Hoarding Partnership, which is led by Northumbria University ... and encourage people who hoard to ask for support.

It was probably buried for safety by a wealthy Viking leader during the unrest following the conquest of the Viking kingdom of Northumbria in AD927. A spokeswoman for the museum said: "The size and ...

now known as the Staffordshire Hoard, were seized (in perhaps between three and six substantial military encounters) by the English midlands kingdom of Mercia from the kingdoms of Northumbria ...

Why was the hoard buried? Around AD 920 Britain was divided into a southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom and the Viking kingdom of Northumbria, with its capital in York. The hoard probably belonged to a ...

Tests on the famous Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon treasure, a vast gold and silver hoard found by a metal ... the kingdom of Northumbria, which then demanded tribute, almost certainly in the form ...

Dumfries and Galloway was part of the kingdom of Northumbria at the time it was buried. Dr Goldberg said: “The classic stereotype of a hoard is that people are under threat and they don’t want ...