I’d put forwrd this general proposition: You don’t bury a hoard like this and run off without coming back for it unless you are prevented from doing so by war or sudden death.
I’d try to date it and then see what warfare was going on in the neighborhood at that time.
It is almost entirely martial-related finds. Nothing feminine. Most deliberately separated from non-gold elements of original items (sword pommels/hilts for example) from my above link -
“The discovery of this Hoard in Staffordshire should cause no surprise. It is in the heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia which was militarily aggressive and expansionist during the seventh century under kings Penda, Wulfhere and Aethelred.
This material could have been collected by any of these during their wars with Northumbria and East Anglia or by someone whose name is lost to history. Here are seeing history confirmed before our eyes.”