Template:Did you know nominations/George Speake

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George Speake

Horse head terminal from the Staffordshire helmet
Horse head terminal from the Staffordshire helmet
  • ... that George Speake is currently reconstructing the more than 1,000 pieces (one pictured) of the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire helmet? Source: ICON 2016: "The last great discovery of the Hoard will be the final form of the helmet, currently worked on by George Speake and Chris Fern." Butterworth et al.: "The Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard contains, alongside the well-publicised gold and silver objects, a large collection of over 1000 fragments of die-impressed silver sheet.1 These gilded metal sheets, when pieced together with other structural fragments of the hoard, provide us with a large portion of what is considered to be a highly-decorated, high-status helmet."

5x expanded by Usernameunique (talk). Self-nominated at 03:13, 11 April 2018 (UTC).

  • Not enough. The DYK would be full of "some person associated with some college who wrote some book"--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 17:25, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Meh, doesn't seem notable enough for a DYK. Maybe need to add something about who this person is.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 15:36, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Template:U, he's an honorary fellow at Oxford who wrote an important book on Anglo-Saxon art and who is currently working on the finds from the Staffordshire Hoard. Is that what you're looking for? --Usernameunique (talk) 15:57, 11 April 2018 (UTC)