Posted on 01/18/2018 5:41:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Romano-British citizens who no longer had the protection of the Roman Empire were so terrified of the raiding Saxons, Angles, Picts and others that they buried their most valuable belongings. According to an entry from 418 in the 9th-century text Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, "In this year the Romans collected all the treasures which were in Britain and hid some in the earth so that no one afterwards could find them, and some they took with them into Gaul." ...
Because no organic materials survived in the Hoxne hoard, radiocarbon can't be used as a dating technique. Instead, archaeologists use the age of coins, which they arrive it by looking at inscriptions on the coin as well as the ruler depicted on its face.
"The date after which Hoxne must've been buried is 408 or 409 [based on the age of the coins] and the traditional model would suggest it was buried around about that point in time," Guest said in an interview with Smithsonian.com. "My perspective is that actually we've been misdating these hoards. If you look at them a little more carefully, then they should be dated to the period after the separation of Britain from the Roman Empire."
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
As I (an American) understand it, the local coroner gets to determine if the treasure was lost or hidden. If lost, the find belongs to the finder. If hidden, it becomes “treasure trove” and the Crown (usually a local or national museum) gets first choice of the objects found. But the finder is paid full value for whatever the Crown takes. Anything left over belongs to the finder to deal with as he/she sees fit. Of course the finder may have to split the proceeds with the landowner.
Eyes? The whole thing looks like Hillary Clinton.
There is no way I would tattle about items found on my property. Course I could never sell it, but it is weird how they turn over everything.
Must be the box would have been preferred for the RC testing, and the rest of the stuff regarded as too precious to consume in the process.
[snip] The find was in such great condition that even fragments of textile and decorative bone were found, which had amazingly lasted for over 1,500 years! The hoard had been buried in a wooden box which had long since rotted away but archaeologists worked so carefully that they were still able to tell the way the objects had been packed... There were toiletry implements, which include toothpicks, small implements probably used to clean the ears or removing cosmetics from small containers. There is also a niello gilded pair of objects in the form of ibises which were used again as toothpicks. There are three other objects which probably contained brushes for cosmetics and creams. [/snip]
http://www.hoxne.net/history/hoard.html
That’s funny, it DOES look like President Trump.
I hear you. My house is built on the rocky end of a ridge. Indians must have used the site as a hunting camp. It is littered with flint and obsidian flakes. Sometimes I find field-expedient blades.
Uncanny resemblance !
You get fair market value for it though. If it’s common/known you can also keep it. A friend hunts (metal detecting) England just about every year and among seriously cool stuff he’s found and brought back is a small eagle from the top of a Roman standard.
Causes me to remember:
I had just read a short article about Europeans and their collective opinion of us (US). I was struck by this line:
“...[Europeans regard Americans as] upstarts who have little history, experience or wisdom...”
Which led me to write the following:
All my time in Europe (mostly Germany) I came up against this assumption. What they entirely failed to realize, and often failed to recognize as true even after I told them, was that we are them.
+ We are that part of them that had the ambition to pack what we could carry, leave our homes in Bavaria and Sachsen-Anhalt and Alsace-Lorraine and Calabria and Norway and a myriad others, to make a new life in the New World, before and after its incorporation as a nation.
+ We are the second sons of the ruling houses who, disinherited by primogeniture and/or bankruptcy, left the palaces, manors and stately homes to seek our fortunes in honest labor.
+ We are the political and religious dissidents, and not a few rascals and cads, who were transported against our will to the American Colonies before the British discovered Australia.
Our history is theirs, tempered by the perspective of distance....
Our experience is theirs, modified, enlarged, and improved by our own....
Our wisdom is theirs, corrected by practical application to fresh circumstance....
They would do well to follow our example; this would become obvious if they would drop their pride long enough to witness how, in three hundred years (give or take), we have surpassed what they accomplished in three thousand.
Well said Sir!
We are, in fact, the children of the best of them.
And thanks for your service there.. Ex GI :-)
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Very well said.
Pepper was imported into 5th Century Britain? Must have been ridiculously expensive.
The Romans got around. During the Han Dynasty in China, there was diplomatic contact at least once, and at least one other attempt, plus there was loads of indirect trade with India as the middleman, as well as direct trade.
There’s at least one mosaic that includes the image of an orangutan, which is found on Sumatra, and wasn’t known again in Europe until modern times.
Perfect!
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