07-03-2007, 12:58 PM
The Hoard box is loaded with stuff.. bits, parts, pieces, scrap... nails, spikes, spearheads, gaming pieces, a bucket.... Lots of interesting and useful things... to us
All I'm sayng is that if it was that valuable to the Romans, why wasn't it carted away? Most of what's in the Box can't be destroyed by burning. Why leave it strewn about for the bad guys? ..... or worse.. in a nice convenient to carry away box? Or maybe that's where the box was deliberately placed... as storage for stuff that might be useful later. I have several "Hoards" if that's the case!. .. one is called the kitchen junk drawer....
Stuff that's deliberately buried isn't always treasure. Sometimes its trash. Archaelogists spend a great deal of time digging in trash deposits.
Not that it proves anything but ... when I was a landscape contractor, and when I repaired irrigation manifolds (banks of in-ground valves) I always reburied the broken parts knowing/hoping that someday... in the future, hundreds/thousands of years in the future... someone would be digging that site as an archaeologist and would come across the parts, new (to me) and old and would have one hell of a time trying to piece it all back together.. exacerbated by the extra bits! :lol:
But, we have no proof about why the Hoard was in the ground do we? None. Just guesses.
Side note: my prior post was editied, understandably and fairly under the circumstance, but it was a one liner accompanied by a smilie and its intent was to evoke a chuckle.
All I'm sayng is that if it was that valuable to the Romans, why wasn't it carted away? Most of what's in the Box can't be destroyed by burning. Why leave it strewn about for the bad guys? ..... or worse.. in a nice convenient to carry away box? Or maybe that's where the box was deliberately placed... as storage for stuff that might be useful later. I have several "Hoards" if that's the case!. .. one is called the kitchen junk drawer....
Stuff that's deliberately buried isn't always treasure. Sometimes its trash. Archaelogists spend a great deal of time digging in trash deposits.
Not that it proves anything but ... when I was a landscape contractor, and when I repaired irrigation manifolds (banks of in-ground valves) I always reburied the broken parts knowing/hoping that someday... in the future, hundreds/thousands of years in the future... someone would be digging that site as an archaeologist and would come across the parts, new (to me) and old and would have one hell of a time trying to piece it all back together.. exacerbated by the extra bits! :lol:
But, we have no proof about why the Hoard was in the ground do we? None. Just guesses.
Side note: my prior post was editied, understandably and fairly under the circumstance, but it was a one liner accompanied by a smilie and its intent was to evoke a chuckle.
Hibernicus
LEGIO IX HISPANA, USA
You cannot dig ditches in a toga!
[url:194jujcw]http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org[/url]
A nationwide club with chapters across N America
LEGIO IX HISPANA, USA
You cannot dig ditches in a toga!
[url:194jujcw]http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org[/url]
A nationwide club with chapters across N America
