Handle for a seax, or single-edged knife from the Staffordshire Hoard. This spectacular handle has some of the finest cloisonnÈ decoration. ëSeaxí describes any kind of single-edged knife. Everyone carried some sort of knife. The name ëSaxonsí probably means ëpeople of the knife'. The Staffordshire Hoard is a collection of Anglo-Saxon. Discovered in a field near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England, in 2009. it consists of over 3, 500 items, dated to the 7th or 8t