pieces to play the most epic game of Monopoly — ever
Two months ago, Terry Herbert, a 51-year-old man armed only with a metal detector in the middle of an English field, made an amazing discovery: the Staffordshire Hoard, billed the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. In all, Herbert’s find yielded 1,500 pieces of intricately carved gold and silver. The New York Times reports that among those pieces are “sword pommels and dagger hilts, scabbard bosses and helmet cheekpieces, Christian crosses and figures of animals, eagles and fish.” Some of the collection are now on display at Birmingham Museum. (Photo: David Jones / Press Association via the AP / New York Times)
