THE work of the team which led to the rescue of the Staffordshire Hoard has landed a top archaeology award. The independent charity The Art Fund has congratulated the Staffordshire Hoard team for winning the Best Rescue Dig of 2010, from readers of the magazine Current Archaeology. Dr Kevin Leahy, the national adviser for early medieval metalwork, who catalogued the find with his wife Dianne, accepted the award from Professor Brian Fagan, of the University of California, at the British Museum. Containing more than 1,500 Anglo-Saxon pieces, the hoard is valued at £3.3 million. Campaigners want to keep it in the Midlands. Fund-raisers – led by the Art Fund – have until April 17 to raise the cash to acquire it and have so far raised more than £1 million. [...]