Part I The Spoils of War “And they buried torques in the barrows, and jewels and a trove of such things as trespassing men had once dared to drag from the hoard they let the ground keep that ancestral treasure gold under gravel, gone to earth” [1] On 23rd March 2010 it was announced that the £3.3 Million required to secure the Staffordshire Hoard for future display in the Mercian homeland had been reached three weeks ahead of schedule after a donation from the Government Heritage Fund. The…