You have wonder why all these ancient peoples were throwing all these gold necklaces and other trinkets away? ...Seriously, I can think of many people who lost rings, bracelets, ankle bracelets,..etc. The other day in the MSM was a dude who put his wife’s jewelery in a garbage bag to bury it for safekeeping, and GUESS WHAT? $50,000 is laying in the bottom of some landfill in Poughkipsi (or wherever). 2000 years from now, (if we last that long), people will wonder why did we throw this away in the middle of the worst depression the world had never known?
Well said. Besides losing things by accident — and we all do this, not just gold stuff, but cell phones, keys, etc — and not being able to find it even after retracing steps — there’s also the occasional raid, sacking, pillaging, killing, burning...