>>Or could it be that it was not actually buried with him but just hidden in the soil of his freshly-filled grave by someone intending to retrieve it at a later date?<<
And yet in a later post you wonder if they are “really reaching”???
I can understand why you would say that, but I am just throwing out possible explanations that are no more outrageous than their supposition that Archer was a closet Catholic. As I said, unless there is more information to support what they say, I just don’t get it.