I have spent considerable time with the Jewel, and if you visit a well-respected historical database, you can read one of my papers on the subject. The above description contains two erroneous assumptions, but I won't bore you with the details.
Please do. I don't come on here as often as I used to and actually miss Mick's economic and politics posts so please do bore me with the details.
We know from contemporary sources (17th Century) that 'archaeologists' were scouring the former marshlands of Somerset, and they did so in the hope of finding relics relating to Alfred's period of exile. To suggest it was ploughed up during a farming exercise is a romantic version of events, yet the discovery was far more contrived. By way of intensive abductive reasoning and the work of the eminent Leslie Webster, the figure within the jewel is undoubtedly 'Sight'. To suggest otherwise is nothing more than chronological snobbery. And, yes, I am a terrible pedant.
