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The Mildenhall Treasure: a first-hand account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

T. C. Lethbridge*
Affiliation:
Fortune Cottage, 8 Duck End, Girton, Cambridge CB3 0PZ, England

Abstract

Introducing our articles by Richard Hobbs and Paul Ashbee (ANTIQUITY 71: 63–76) on the Mildenhall Treasure, the mass of Roman silverware which came to light in east England in 1946, I remarked that the principals are deceased. One principal did leave a first-hand account which has not been known before — Tom Lethbridge, Hon. Keeper of Anglo-Saxon antiquities in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. This extract from his unpublished autobiography is printed with the kind permission of Mrs Tom Lethbridge.

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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