The Staffordshire Hoard should go on display in Lichfield or Hammerwich according to the area’s MP.
Michael Fabricant believes that while there is nowhere in the area suitable to take in the UK’s largest discovery of Anglo-Saxon gold artefacts, he does feel that residents should be given the opportunity to view them in the locality.
The Lichfield MP added that although they would not be a long-term solution, St Mary’s Heritage Centre or Lichfield Cathedral could provide a short-term solution.
He added:
“I resist talk of putting the collection on show in Shugborough simply because the County owns that site. I also hope that some – if not all – of these relics of Saxon life in Mercia will find a permanent home in Lichfield District.
“Meanwhile, I say to Gordon Brown following his selling off cheap our national gold reserves when he was Chancellor, that I hope he notes that Hammerwich has done its best to restore them!”
