In August 2012, the funeral of Countess Alix de Lannoy, mother of Stéphanie de Lannoy, was held in Frasnes, attended by members of the Luxembourg and Belgian royal families.

The lancers were interdicted at Frasnes after which the Nassauers retreated to the Bois de Bossu, a thick patch of forest near Quatre Bras.

Some geological stages internationally recognized were defined from rock sites located in Wallonia: e. g. Frasnian ( Frasnes ), Famennian ( Famenne ), Tournaisian ( Tournai ), Visean ( Visé ), Dinantian ( Dinant ) and Namurian ( Namur )".

A large hoard of Jaina bronzes was accidentally discovered at Hansi in February 1982.

In April 2010 a large hoard of coins was unearthed near Frome, Somerset, United Kingdom, which includes the largest group of coins issued during Carausius ' reign ever found ; 760 coins from his reign were found in a group of 52, 500 Roman coins that also included 5 rare silver denarii.

While she did not find the hoard of three million gold coins reportedly buried there, the excavators unearthed a seven-foot headless marble statue.

In April 2010 a large hoard of third-century Roman coins was unearthed in a field near the town.

Cass ' investigation of the Met's Special Patrol Group ( SPG ) headquarters unearthed a hoard of unauthorised weapons, including various illegal truncheons and knives, two crowbars, a whip, a 3 ft wooden stave, and a lead-weighted leather stick.

In September 2011 a metal detectorist unearthed the Silverdale Hoard, an early 10th century Viking hoard comprising 201 silver coins, jewellery, ingots and hacksilver that had been buried in a lead container in the vicinity of Silverdale.

Later in his life, Beowulf is himself king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound.

Many of the people who hoard gold today expect hyperinflation, and are hedging against it by holding specie.

This progression culminates in Bilbo stealing a cup from the dragon's hoard, rousing him to wrath — an incident directly mirroring Beowulf, and an action entirely determined by traditional narrative patterns.

Whether the hoard was deposited by Anglo-Saxon pagans or Christians is debated, as is the purpose of the deposit.

Sixtus prided himself upon his hoard, but the method by which it had been amassed was financially unsound: some of the taxes proved ruinous, and the withdrawal of so much money from circulation could not fail to cause distress.

Thus Highdown cemetery would have been in use by Saxons when the hoard was buried at Patching.

Smaug was intimately familiar with every last item within his hoard, and instantly noticed the theft of a relatively inconsequential cup by Bilbo Baggins.

Many of Smaug's attributes and behaviour in The Hobbit derive directly from the unnamed " old night-scather " in Beowulf: great age ; winged, fiery, and reptilian form ; a stolen barrow within which he lies on his hoard ; disturbance by a theft ; and violent airborne revenge on the lands all about.

However, the Men of Esgaroth, supported by Thranduil and the Elves of Mirkwood, demanded a part of the dragon's hoard as recompense for the destruction.

After slaying Scatha, Fram's ownership of his recovered hoard was then disputed by the Dwarves of that region.

Of all items made of Mithril in the works of Tolkien, a notable example is the " small shirt of mail " retrieved from the hoard of the dragon Smaug, and given to Bilbo Baggins by Thorin Oakenshield.

One theory is that the pit holds a pirate treasure hoard buried by Captain Kidd or possibly Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ), who claimed he buried his treasure " where none but Satan and myself can find it.

Fáfnir guards the gold hoard in this illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner's Siegfried ( opera ) | Siegfried.

Donkey Kong Country is a platform game where players must complete 40 different side-scrolling levels ( 41 in the Game Boy Color version ) and recover the Kongs ' banana hoard, which has been stolen by the Kremlings.

" When we stop to reflect upon the thousands of physical, mental and social misfits in our midst, the thousands of families which are too large for the family to support, the one-tenth of our children born to an unmarried mother, the hoard of children rejected by parents, is there any doubt that health, welfare and education agencies need to redouble their efforts to prevent these conditions which are so costly to society?

While constructing it the labourers found a hoard of 67 Guineas dated from the reigns of monarchs from Charles II to George II, which were confiscated by the Clerk of the Works.

The final proof for that a third century CE date for the three silver coin hoards from Qumran is possible beyond any reasonable doubt is shown by a highly unusual type of coin hoard found at Ain Hanaziv in the Jordan Valley in the early 1960 and reported in the Israel Numismatic Bulletin ..

Thus treasure trove means not a treasure chest or hoard, but a treasure found by chance, as opposed to one stolen, inherited, bought, etc.

Another activity that goes by the same name, which is particularly common in Halo, is where the enemy team will hoard their vehicles and then drive them all in a rush into a chokepoint or the exterior of the enemy spawn and abandon the vehicles there.

The hoard was described by the British Museum as the most important find of its type in Britain for 150 years.

The Pereshchepina hoard was discovered in 1912 by Ukrainian peasants in the vicinity of Poltava, yielding, gold and silver objects of total weight of 75 kg, including a ring which eventually allowed identification of the grave as that belonging to Khan Kubrat.

The discovery of a bronze weapon in central Douglas, and the large Ballaquayle Viking treasure hoard on the outskirts, both in the 1890s, hint at the early importance of the site now occupied by Douglas.

::* Some hoard scores of animals they cannot even marginally care for ; often dead pets cannibalized by other pets are found under the heaps.

The study shows that adults who hoard report a greater lifetime incidence of having possessions taken by force, forced sexual activity as either an adult or a child, including forced intercourse, and being physically handled roughly during childhood, thus proving traumatic events are positively correlated with the severity of hoarding. For each five years of life the participant would rate from 1 to 4, 4 being the most severe, the severity of their hoarding symptoms.

* 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1, 500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.

The Ziwiye hoard, a treasure of gold and silver metalwork and ivory found near the town of Sakiz south of Lake Urmia and dated to between 680 and 625 BC, includes objects with Scythian " animal style " features.

Significant Bronze Age finds include a bronze sword found close to the river north of Amberley Farm near Charlwood and a small hoard of weaponry consisting of two palstave axes and a scabbard chape was discovered in 2003 in Norbury Park close to Ham Bank.

In 2008 the British Museum exhibited a hoard of silverware that was found near Stowey Court.

Another La Tene example was found as part of a hoard buried near Erstfeld.

He also discloses to Dantès the whereabouts of a hoard of jewels at Monte Cristo, a small island near the Italian coast, before dying from a cataleptic seizure.

A treasure hoard consisting of 12 silver coins issued between 613 and 685 was found in a Byzantine tomb near the Church of the Virgin.

The hoard, which contained a variety of rare and extremely rare Anglo-Norman pennies, English and foreign coins, was reputed to have been found in or near Paris.

In 2007, two metal detectorists found the Harrogate hoard, a 10th century Viking treasure hoard, near Harrogate.

The hoard of 52, 500 coins dated from the third century AD and was found buried in a field near the town, in a jar below the surface.

A 4th-century hoard of 400 Roman coins was found in the area, near Fleetwood.

In 2000, near the village of Wilcot, a schoolboy found a hoard of Roman coins which became known as the Stanchester Hoard.

The hoard is a collection of about 20, 600 gold ornaments that was found in six burial mounds near Sheberghan, in the northern Afghanistan province of Jowzjan, and was excavated in 1978 by a team led by the Greek-Russian archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi, a year before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The Mildenhall Treasure is a major hoard of highly decorated Roman silver tableware from the fourth-century AD, found at West Row, near Mildenhall in the English county of Suffolk.

The hoard of 52, 500 coins dated from the 3rd century AD and was found buried in a field near Frome, in a jar below the surface.

Roman occupation evidence was discovered by chance near the Bristol Road South in Northfield when Pigeon House near Hill Top Road was demolished in the late 1900s and the Northfield hoard of 16 Roman coins was found buried.

In 1947 a hoard of 550 Roman coins was found near a quarry in Boothstown, dated to between AD 250 and 275, and in 1958 the head of a man was found on Worsley Moss.

Near the River Rhee in the north of the parish and not far from the camp at Arbury Banks or Harboro, and near the Ridgeway, a hoard of more than 500 Roman coins was discovered.

In 2004 a metal detecting rally found a hoard of three gold bracelets and two armlets at Crow Down near Lambourn.