This Friday (26 March), Lichfield Cathedral will be proud to present one of three exclusive advance screenings of the film:

Saxon Gold: Finding the Hoard

Doors open at 6.30pm, film starts at 7.30pm.
Tickets £10, with all proceeds going to the Staffordshire Hoard Campaign

Tickets are kindly being sold by the Lichfield Garrick. Call 01543 412121 or buy online at www.lichfieldgarrick.com

The film, produced by the National Geographic Channel, will be aired nationally on the National Geographic Channel on 28 March 2010 and on Channel 4 in early April. The film runs for approximately 50 minutes.

Come and hear the latest about the Staffordshire Hoard at Speakers’ Corner this coming Saturday, 6 March, at 10.00am.

There will be a short (5 minute) presentation by Dr Gareth Williams (curator of early medieval coinage at the British Museum) – an abbreviated version of the talk he will be giving later (10.30am) in Lichfield Cathedral: ‘A Book, an Angel and a Crock of Gold: the Staffordshire Hoard and the Kingdom of Mercia’. 

It’s a mark of the excitement the Hoard has caused locally that the Cathedral has sold almost 500 tickets for that event.  There are still tickets left, but only with a restricted view.

Canon Pete