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More than 10,000 kids helped build the giant plastic structure with hundreds ofthousands of Lego bricks. It took two days to build it.

Gerling has been a Lego master builder for 13 yeats. For this project, he first made adrawing of the light bulb and then built a smaller prototype. "Anything can be built withLego," the master builder says, "but such large projects need extra support. The light bulbis a huge round shape and it has got some glued parts to make sure it holds."

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The arlefacts date from between 67 5 and 725, in a period that is sometimes called the"DarkAges" because of a lot of fighting. The gold in the collection weighs five kilograms.That means that England during the Dark Ages was richer than historians thought.

Anglo-Saxons ruled England from the fifth century to 1066. Much of the treasure rsmilitary, including parts of helmets and swords. Other artefacts are religious, includingcrosses and gold objects with biblical writings. Archaeologists believe people buried thelreasure to hide it from enemies.

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