As long as I'm on a posting binge ...  This may still be news to some here--it was news to me. There was an incredible discovery of Anglo-Saxon metalwork made recently, July, 2009. Over 1500 objects, 5kg of gold work and 1.3kg of silver. They've put up a nice site, http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/, with over 600 images of items found. The image above is used courtesy of the Staffordshire hoard website.

From the web site: "This hoard is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in England. It compares and perhaps exceeds those objects found at Sutton Hoo."

Currently some of the items are being dated to the 7th or 8th century.

If you find their site to be running extremely slow, I'm sure there's a lot of traffic right now, they've got a flickr site for photos -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/.