Fogy Albion and the distant year 1992 again. As usual, the grass was greener back then, the sky was bluer, and photos of the finds from the dig site had not yet appeared on Facebook 5 minutes after discovery. Two local farmers are toiling in a field near a village in the Suffolk countryside under the pretty pretext of searching for a pre-sown tool. They never found the hammer, but they dug up a fair amount of gold Roman coins! Well, what? I also have such a sin, I constantly lose my keys or something else in ancient fields, and then I have to take the device and carefully examine everything! Farmers can be understood and forgiven.
Having filled their pockets fairly, the friends decide to let professional archaeologists dig. A team of qualified diggers who arrived at the site the very next day searched through everything within a radius of 30 meters from the found coins and discovered the largest Roman treasure of the 5th century. To recount and describe all this wealth requires separate work, so just as an example, I will give some of what was found: 569 gold solidi, more than 14 thousand silver coins, about a hundred pieces of gold jewelry, silver dishes and much more… Fantastic! I give treasure to everyone! The lucky ones were rewarded with an amount (at current exchange rates) equal to 4 million 600 thousand dollars! Agree, not bad at all!
This is approximately the order in which the treasure was buried in the fifth century AD (and this is only part of the items). Enjoy the photos!
And here is the nail, or rather the hammer of our post! It was found by archaeologists who were called to help the successful diggers. And it’s not even silver…
Have you ever had finds from the Roman era? If not yet, then you definitely will! The weekend is just around the corner!
Good luck this season!
I collect more finds here, and all information on the treasures can be found here.
