[Just mythoughts]

The author used the word hoard because that is the word! Treasure hoard! A hoard of treasure! Hoard is also directly derived from Anglo-Saxon. You just couldn't get a better fitting word for this astonishing find than hoard.

I appreciate your explanation. Why I asked is the recent ads I have seen for a tv show on hoarders and there is nothing 'good' about these people and how they live with all the 'junk' they hoard This is NOT junk and whom ever it once belong to had reason to hoard as the treasure has sure more than maintained it initial value.

Now how can I find out what the inscription on the gold band says?

[agere_contra]

See my 16 for a possible interpretation of the inscription.

Didn't know you guys were having to live with attack-ads on the word 'hoard', my apologies. Communist states routinely attack people who hold property away from 'rightful', 'communal' use, and it's starting where you are :0(

[Cadno]

According to the BBC website - This gold strip carries the Latin inscription: “Rise up O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate thee be driven from thy face.” It has two sources, the Book of Numbers or Psalm 67, taken from the Vulgate, the Bible used by the Saxons.

[TheOldLady]

Now how can I find out what the inscription on the gold band says?