The Staffordshire Gold Hoard at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley

In December 2021 I was lucky enough to photograph some of the Staffordshire Gold Hoard at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley. Several of the pieces had undergone conservation whilst others had been identified as belonging together, having come from the same item. The aim was to shoot them in their groups, or in their newly cleaned states. The work was managed by Drakon Heritage and Conservation. Incredible objects made with great expertise and quite tricky to photograph as they are shiny and small! So I used plenty of reflectors and a lot of focus stacking to retain depth of focus.

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