The hoard was thought to have been stored in a wooden box and consisted of the corroded remains of a number of items but the largest was this helmet.

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

The Water Newton Treasure is a hoard of Christian silver church plate from the early 4th century and the Roman villas at Lullingstone and Hinton St Mary contained Christian wall paintings and mosaics respectively.

Two famous 7th century silver and enamel plaques from the hoard, one shown above, have a " Z-rod ", one of the Pictish symbols, in a particularly well-preserved and elegant form ; unfortunately few comparable pieces have survived.

The cemetery at Highdown is only 2 km from a hoard of Roman gold and silver that was found in 1997.

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.

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

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.

A magnificent hoard of late Roman silver was discovered at nearby Thistley Green in 1942, and the 34 pieces, which included bowls, spoons, dishes and goblets, were declared to be Treasure trove and are now in the British Museum.

In 2009 the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found south west of Lichfield.

Adds additional commodities such as timber, silver and ivory which makes it harder for players to hoard higher value trade cards which slows down game-play.

However, the archaeological and numismatic nature of the silver coin hoard burials suggests that the coin hoards may have been buried in the early 3rd century CE.

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 ..

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 obverse features a galley and the name Antony, while the reverse features the name of the particular legion that each issue was intended for ( it is interesting to note that hoard evidence shows that these coins remained in circulation over 200 years after they were minted, due to their lower silver content ).

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 earliest confirmed occurrence of the name Lavapura is on silver coins inscribed Lava on the obverse and Pura on the reverse in a Pallava-derived script of the seventh or eighth century ; several such coins were reccovered in 1966 from a hoard found in an ancient jar in U Thong.

The Cathedral's museum is home to the Canoscio hoard, a set of Late Antique silver spoons and plates with Christian motifs, as well as a silvered altarpiece donated by Pope Celestine V in the 12th century, a Madonna by Pinturicchio ( 1486 ) and Angels by Giulio Romano.

Now at the British Museum, the treasure is a hoard of Roman silver objects buried in the 4th century.

* Hoxne Hoard, a hoard of 14, 212 silver siliquae dating from the early 5th century.

The local landowners held the silver at their estate and pursued a salvage claim, but a gang of locals overpowered the Danish guard and made off with the hoard, causing a diplomatic row between Denmark-Norway and Britain.

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.

Older finds, such as the treasures from Traprain Law and the Esquiline Hill in Rome, and more recent ones, such as the great Kaiseraugst treasure from Switzerland and the Hoxne hoard, can now been seen in both international and Romano-British contexts that make it clear that personal possessions of very high quality were indeed in use in the frontier province of Britain in the 4th century AD, and that the Mildenhall material remains pre-eminent as a partial set of silver tableware of that period.

* 3: 9-4: 14 Paean for Wisdom: " Where are the princes of the nations ,... that hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust?

A hoard of silver coins, the latest about 1700 ( British Museum )

If they contain less than 10 % gold or silver there must be at least 10 in the hoard for it to qualify.

In June 2012, two metal detectorists announced that they had uncovered what could be Europe's largest hoard of Iron Age Celtic coins, and which may be worth up to £ 10 M, after a search spanning 30 years.

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.

" This theft of a cup, Smaug's knowledge of every item in the hoard, and the dragon's ensuing rampage all echo the story of Beowulf, on which Tolkien was a noted expert and which he described as one of his " most valued sources " for The Hobbit.

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.

The valkyrie tells him she knows of a hoard of swords in Sigarsholm, and that one of them is of particular importance, which she describes in detail.

There is evidence of human activity in the Thornbury area in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, but Roman presence is limited to the Thornbury hoard, of 11, 460 Roman coins dating from 260 to 348 AD, which were found in 2004 while a resident was digging out for a fishpond.

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.

For the first few years of his reign the coins of King Stephen continued to be produced, but in order to restore public confidence in the currency a new standard was introduced, known as the Tealby penny after a hoard of such coins which was found at Tealby, Lincolnshire in 1807.

A torc, the " Ring of Pietroassa ", part of a late 3rd-to 4th-century Gothic hoard discovered in Romania, is inscribed in much-damaged runes, one reading of which is gutanī wi hailag ", " to Ingwi of the Goths.

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 Frasnes hoard, accidentally unearthed by foresters in 1864 near Frasnes-lez-Buissenal in Hainaut, along with coins associated with the Morini and the Nervii, also contained characteristically Gallic gold torques, one of which was in Alastair Bradley Martin's Guennol collection.

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.

However, the castle is located at the top of a moor and so easily spotted, which would not be a wise place to put a hoard of precious metal.