Posted on 01/02/2015 2:57:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv
During excavations conducted in conjunction with the restoration of the Tver State Museum in western Russia, archaeologists discovered a medieval silver hoard lying just six feet below the office of the museum's general director. Buried in a small hole covered with ceramics sometime during the Mongol invasions of the mid-thirteenth century, the hoard contained silver headdresses, chains, beads, and pendants, among other items. According to RU Facts, archaeologists believe the jewelry may have belonged to a Tver noblewoman who died in the assault on the city or was otherwise unable to retrieve her precious cache. The hoard narrowly missed being discovered in the fifteenth century, when the area on which the museum now sits was leveled and workers may have come within less than five inches of the jewlery.
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Of course she couldn’t retrieve it. Someone built a museum there.
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That’s the one!
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My pleasure!
Ditto!
You are right about that. I have visited a number of times, have met the owners and gotten a little behind the scenes peek. There is not much that you haven’t already seen in a museum or an antiques shop, but this stuff is in large quantities and because of its burial in the mud, is in pristine condition. It was brand new when it was lost and still looks that way.
There are more of them out there on the flood plain, at the highest point in th$ countym we are in a steamboat free zone.
Tver is north of Moscow on the St. Petersburg road. WAY back in the day it vied with Moscow to be the capital of the region.
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