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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7067793, member: 110504&quot;]To [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER]&#039;s initial question, sadly, regarding hoards found in the middle ages, other people&#039;s posts here give you resonant, if implicit evidence of where things are with the documentation.&nbsp; As in, there isn&#039;t any.&nbsp; They had to be only thicker on (/in) the ground than they are now, but, ...well, no one had more than the vaguest idea of what they were looking at.</p><p>Regarding hoards found during the period, the most documentation I&#039;m aware of involves the death of Richard I, while besieging a castle in France, held by a viscount who had transferred allegiance back to Philippe II.&nbsp; Gillingham continues an English chronicler&#039;s account:</p><p>&quot;Moreover there are some people who say that a treasure of incalculable value was &quot;found on the Viscount&#039;s lands; that the King ordered it to be handed over to him; &quot;and that [...] the Viscount refused.&quot;&nbsp; (<u>Richard I</u>, 1999 /2002, p. 323 and n. 8.)</p><p>...But, as you might expect, very few details about the hoard are forthcoming, from this or other primary sources.&nbsp; In the context of medieval Europe, the amount of incredible stuff which was found, and summarily melted down --notably by kings like Richard, with interminable war budgets-- is staggering to consider.</p><p>...Just one more instance of how vital archeological evidence remains, specifically for the Medieval period.&nbsp; It&#039;s heartening that over the last few decades, more academic historians have gotten on board with this, and interdisciplinary approaches more broadly, to supplement often fragmentary and conflicting primary sources.</p><p>One instance of AEthelred II of England (978-1016) resonantly demonstrates that hoards were likely being found all the time.&nbsp; You&#039;re referred to [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER]&#039;s thread: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aethelred-reflection-of-probus.377382/#post-7063590" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aethelred-reflection-of-probus.377382/#post-7063590">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aethelred-reflection-of-probus.377382/#post-7063590</a>&nbsp; AEthelred&#039;s &#039;helmet&#039; pennies are unmistable imitations of antoniniani of Probus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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