10,000 in queue to see gold hoard
Monday 28th September 2009, 11:30AM BST.
More than 10,000 people are thought to have turned up to see the Staffordshire Hoard at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery over the weekend.
Visitors queued for up to two hours to see the treasure, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. Around 7,500 people saw the gold on the opening day of the exhibition last Friday alone.
Around 1,300 mainly gold and silver items – thought to date back to 700AD – were unearthed on farmland between Burntwood and Brownhills by Terry Herbert, aged 55, in July.
Birmingham Museum expects visitor numbers to keep growing. The items are on show until October 13.
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