Our Top Ten Treasures
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Our Top Ten Treasures was a 2003 special episode of the BBC Television series Meet the Ancestors which profiled the ten most important treasures unearthed in Britain, as voted for by a panel of expert
The Sutton Hoo helmet
Ringlemere Cup detail
Cuerdale hoard viking silver british museum
Fishpool Hoard jewel
Mildenhall Treasure
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The Mildenhall Treasure is a large hoard of 34 masterpieces of Roman silver tableware from the fourth century CE, and by far the most valuable Roman objects artistically and by weight of bullion in Br
Our Top Ten Treasures
…Cuerdale Silver Hoard 10th century stoneworkers 1840 banks of the River Ribble 8 Fishpool Hoard 15th century workmen 1966 Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire 7 Mildenhall Roman Dinner Service Roman Gordon Butcher, a ploughman 1942 near Mildenhall, Suffolk 6 Mold cape Bronze Age stoneworkers 1833 Mold, Flintshire, Wales 5 Lewis chessmen 12th…
Detail of a bowl
The Great Dish, or Great Plate of Bacchus
One of a pair of silver dishes from the Mildenhall Treasure, decorated with figures of Pan, a nymph and other mythological creatures