There Beer, what did I say? Prospect all you like, but only pick up what you see on the surface or within ploughsoil, record EXACTLY where you find it (x yards from hedge along side y yards from gate) in Farmer Bottle's nth field along the B666 W of Trumpton- or better stiull a GPS reference), and notify it to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (which I see is overwhelmed with traffic).

The provisional dating of the hoard suggests it's loot from Saxon-on-Saxon violence, or perhaps what the Welsh got from their alliance with Penda but never fetched back to Wales. Typically weaselly Viking trick, Rapaire, claiming credit for someone else's hard looting.