Buxton Museum and Art Gallery has a thoughtful blog post on Anglo-Saxon jewellers of the Peak, spurred by a new find near Tissington (above Ashbourne). The article also discusses several early Victorian finds that found their way across to collections in Sheffield rather than to Buxton. The White Peak, the article states, has…
“the greatest collection of 7th century Anglo-Saxon monumental burials in the Midlands, and particularly around the village of Tissington. Although it has been fashionable to view these burials as representative of the elite of a very local community, another theory is that the zone may have been used as a kind of “valley of the kings” for a wider regional elite.”
The Spyders of Burslem 