The hoard has been described by Leslie Webster , former keeper of the department of prehistory at the British Museum , as `` absolutely the metalwork equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells . ''
The hoard has been described by Leslie Webster , former keeper of the department of prehistory at the British Museum , as `` absolutely the metalwork equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells '' , and `` this is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically , if not more so , as the Sutton Hoo discoveries '' .