Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie.

Happy New Year.

Today we're continuing the Staffordshire Horde project.

We were really fortunate to be able to speak with Deb Clemper about the Horde.

She's going to share with us what's been happening on the museum side,

some theories about interpretation, and other really interesting tidbits.

Now Deb is perfect for this because she's kind of been at the eye of the storm of this whole situation.

You'll notice that archaeology has turned into something a rock star discipline over the last couple of years,

and that's largely due to finds like the Staffordshire Horde,

and the possible find of Richard III.

And so she's going to be able to give us an idea of what it was like to be right in the middle of that,

when the Staffordshire Horde is being first discovered and then when it was released to the public.

So we're really fortunate to be able to talk to her.

And as always, if you'd like to know more about the Staffordshire Horde,

you can go to my website, the British History Podcast.com,

and click on the links to the Staffordshire sites there.

Or you can just go straight to StaffordshireHorde.org.uk.

Alright, let's get this going.

My name's Deb Clemperer. I'm Principal Collections Officer.

That's head curator at the Potter's Museum and Art Gallery in Stokomtrend in Staffordshire.

And I've been an archaeologist for nearly 40 years.

I trained at Birmingham University and specialised in Saxons and Vikings

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