The Staffordshire Hoard will return to the West Midlands early next year.

At least 80 items will go 
on display at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, including some objects that have not been seen by the public.

A spokesman for Stoke-on-Trent City Council said the exhibition would go ahead 
in February, pending the valuation of the Anglo-Saxon hoard, which was due to take place as Museums Journal went to press.

More than 40,000 people visited the hoard when it was on display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 
for 20 days in October. 

Selected items from the hoard are now being exhibited at the British Museum. The display coincided with the launch 
of the Portable Antiquities and Treasure Annual Report 2007, which recorded 66,311 archaeological finds and 
747 cases of Treasure.

A significant hoard of Iron Age material has also been uncovered by a metal detectorist in Stirling. 
It consists of four gold torcs and has been described as 
the most significant find of Iron Age gold in Scotland. 

It will be valued by the Scottish Archaeological Finds Allocation Panel next summer and National Museums Scotland is 
putting together an application to acquire it.