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Nahal Mishmar. The valley or wadi of Nahal Mishmar begins in the Hebron hills, running east towards the Dead Sea.Its western part is shallow, at an altitude of approximately 270 m above sea level, and it proceeds to fall more than 300 meters [dubious – discuss] into the Jordan Rift Valley before emptying into the Dead Sea, over 12 kilometres (7.5 mi).
The hoard fetched £90,000 at auction A hoard of 99 silver pennies, dated back to the reign of Aethelred II (978–1016), was discovered under the remains of a Saxon church demolished shortly after the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century. [9] Canterbury-St Martin's hoard: Late 6th or early 7th century: Canterbury Kent
A hoard of loot is a buried collection of spoils from raiding and is more in keeping with the popular idea of "buried treasure". Votive hoards are different from the above in that they are often taken to represent permanent abandonment, in the form of purposeful deposition of items, either all at once or over time for ritual purposes, without ...
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A treasure trove is an amount of money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion found hidden underground or in places such as cellars or attics, where the treasure seems old enough for it to be presumed that the true owner is dead and the heirs undiscoverable. An archaeological find of treasure trove is known as a hoard. The legal definition of ...
The remaining hoards comprise Roman coins, some of which may have been buried by Armorican Celts fleeing from Roman armies during the campaigns of Julius Caesar in the mid 1st century B.C. [2] Although the contents of most Iron Age and Roman hoards found in the Channel Islands originated from nearby France or Britain, one hoard that was ...
The Nahal Mishmar hoard is the hoard of archaeological artifacts found by a 1961 expedition led by Pessah Bar-Adon in a cave by Nahal Mishmar in the Judaean Desert near the Dead Sea, Israel. The collection wrapped in a straw mat found under debris in a natural crevice contained 442 objects: 429 of copper, six of hematite, one of stone, five of ...
The Helmingham Hall hoard is a Roman British coin hoard found near the grounds of Helmingham Hall around Helmingham and Stowmarket, Suffolk, dating at latest to the reign of Claudius, during the Roman conquest of Britain in the year 47 AD.