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ARTS: DESIGN
List: Top Ten Treasures of the British Museum
Date: 2004
Source: BBC Two's 'Meet the Ancestors' television programme.
Base: All treasure found in the UK now contained in the British Museum.
Notes: Experts voted on their favourite treasure in a special edition of BBC Two's Meet the Ancestors programme. A panel of five experts from the British Museum then decided on the order of the top ten.
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Rank
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Treasure
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Location Discovered
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1
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Vindolanda Tablets
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Northumberland
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2
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Sutton Hoo ship burial
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Suffolk
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3
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Hoxne Hoard
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Suffolk
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4
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Snettisham Hoard
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Norfolk
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5
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Lewis Chessmen
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Outer Hebrides
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6
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Mold Gold Cape
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North Wales
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7
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Mildenhall Treasure
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Suffolk
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8
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Fishpool Hoard
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Lancashire
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9
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Cuerdale Hoard
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Lancashire
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10
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The Ringlemere and Rillaton Cups
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Kent
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