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This is an early comprehensive review of the spectacular gold find in Staffordshire in the early 2000s. It seeks to establish the reading of the find as a record of the crisis of the Mercian kingdom around 700 CE.

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This article is intended to show the need for medieval historical research to take into close consideration evidence from archaeology.

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This page is a summary of: Der Fund von Staffordshire und die Krise der merzischen Königsherrschaft um 700. Ein Beitrag zur Kritik der Debatte um den Staatsbegriff des frühen Mittelalters und zur Kooperation zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Archäologie, Frühmittelalterliche Studien, June 2014, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/fmst-2014-0105.
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