How do people keep finding treasure in British fields that is hundreds of years old and why is it scattered there in the first place?

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How do people keep finding treasure in British fields that is hundreds of years old and why is it scattered there in the first place?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

It happens in nations all over the world. Years ago, people couldn’t just direct-deposit their money in a bank and withdraw it when needed using an ATM card. And if they kept their money inside their homes, it was easier for others to find and steal it. So, people often buried money and other valuables in hidden caches, especially during times of war and other strife (of which Europe has seen a lot). But then people sometimes died, before digging that wealth back up again and before telling anyone else where is was hidden.

Anonymous 0 Comments

For all that it seems static to us, the Earth is constantly in subtle motion in little and big ways. If you’ve ever lived on a farm in a region with stony ground and tough winters, you’ll know that the spring thaw brings a crop of fresh stones. The cycle of freezing and thawing slowly moved buried stones closer to the surface, and that happens with a lot of things. Human activity in previously unsettled areas also leads to the discovery of something new every so often. Erosion over centuries can expose long-hidden secrets.

Lots of mechanisms exist which mean that there’s always new strata being exposed, and all that goes with it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Britain has a lot of history, Julius Caesar even popped over for a few weeks.
You’ll get a bit of bias from English languages and media, but this sort of stuff is found all over Europe too.
Sometimes its graves and burials, other times it might be hoards, essentially buried treasure.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because England has been relatively heavily populated for a long time.

If you mention to someone in America that your house was built in 1909 they’ll probably comment on how OLD that house is. In England they’d likely not bat an eye. Our war of Independence was fought a little over a couple hundred years ago. England as a united country has existed for well over a thousand years (Athelstan was crowned King of the English in the early 10th century). Before that it was colonized by Rome.

People drop/lose stuff. People get in wars. People bury stuff to protect it and then die without telling people. Over time things happen.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

because magnitcant happenings did thus occur back in the olden times,

not poor broke bums fightin, layden with gold vikings battlin tha brits slayn there and burried by time

now farmer John Smith with his deteector in some old field or other gets tha thrill find of his life, in the ritch ritch soil of great britain

gosh, i can only image wats burried in Norway, but they dont allow that kinda stuff, their phylosophy is, leave the burried burried in the ground so all that anchient mana and magic stays in the soil and blesses Norway

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s really hard to hide things without leaving some sort of evidence.

Sure, you could pack it in the wall, drywall, spackle and paint over it but now the house smells like fresh paint and one wall has clearly been freshly painted.

Also, what’s to say you will still have access to the house in a decade anyway?

Bury it, use landmarks like how a rock, tree and mountain lineup and you can go back anytime to retrieve, if you’re still alive.

If not, someone on Reddit posts it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Another important reaaon ia that the British Treasury is quite generous with treasure inventors.
Contrast it with France, where archeological looting is rampant

Anonymous 0 Comments

So this is gonna blow your mind but England has had four separate human habitations the earliest being about 900k years ago with what they think was homo erected or hidlebergensis. Hippopotamus is the only animal bones they have found without signs of human butchering.

So starting after the last ice age the British isle have been pretty well covered with modern humans ever since and people drop shit all the time or hide stuff and die, or never make it back or a village 6000 years ago used to be where a field is now. The top 2 or 3 archeological schools in the world are in England because there is just literally so much stuff, all the time, everywhere.

Edit : Ive been listening to a lot of history hit podcasts The ancients with Tristan Hughes and Gone Medieval with Cat Jarmin and Matt Lewis

Anonymous 0 Comments

wars and maurading gangs of pillagers. when danger was near a wealthy family, or a village would bundle their stuff up and hide/bury it. Travelers were particularly vulnerable and so would hide their cash/gold before going to bed at night.

well sometimes they didn’t get back. murderous aholes upset at not getting any loot would kill the lot of them (or more likely kill the men, rape the women and take the children for slaves)

I’m fairly certain that every cache found is evidence of barbarity and evil.