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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The British attempt at conquering the world and manifest destiny and whatnot. They started wars and stole treasures and valuables from all cultures across the world. When they were retaliated against by many different nations, they folded under military might and in an act of spite, the British tried to destroy the treasures or toss them in many battlefields
Lots of historical reasons for finding treasure sometimes its as simple as a person in the past crossing a field a losing a broach or piece of jewellery and it gets buried with rain and sits there for hundreds of years till someone finds it either by turning the soil over with a tractor ploughing or with a metal detector.
I do know one reason people keep finding hordes of coins in British fields its from time of the fall of the Roman empire.
You see when the Roman empire started to fail it was not over night it took hundreds of years, but the start of it was at the edges of the empire which also included Britain.
Support and man power was taken away from these areas and brought back into the centre of the empire to prop it up.
One aspect of this was the lack of faith in the Roman currency and its value dropped. People back then thought it was only a temporary thing there is no way an empire as big as the Roman Empire could collapse so they took all there Roman coins and buried them, you see there where no banks back then so if you had a lot of wealth the ground is best place to keep it if you hide it good enough and it hid well enough that it was not found till hundreds of years later.
Funny thing is that when the people stopped using the Roman coins they went back to bartering thinking its only going to be a few years and they could dig up there coins again. I think it was like 800 years later coins started to be used again.
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