Comments on: Largest ever hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold found in UK

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:56:36 +0000

He may have buried it in a rush too. Terry Herbert found it quite close to the surface. A bit of gold was actually showing through a thin covering of earth.

By: duncan

duncan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:45:00 +0000

no doubt you’re right…the only other thing that comes to mind is that he or they
had tossed back to much celebratory ale & simply forgot where they buried it ( one flat field looks more or less the same as the next)

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:51:48 +0000

It would have had to have been something major, no doubt about it. I’m guessing yet another battle, only the next one didn’t go quite so well for our plundering friends.

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:50:42 +0000

I get that same feeling too. It’s a real connection to people who can often feel more like characters in a book than genuine human beings like us who lived 1300 years ago.

By: duncan

duncan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:43:44 +0000

…spectacular; I can almost visualise the happy
plunderers burying their loot…one can only imagine what happened to keep from coming back to dig it up