Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111102:16:55:00
Romans left and around 650 ad, somebody of one of these saxon tribes deposited this treasure in the ground and it is all, one of the most striking things about it apart from the beauty is that it seems to be with two or three exceptions, all military gear. sword hilts, parts of swords, missing the blades. this has led some people to believe and, and i am one of them, that this is a ritual offering, meaning that there was some circumstance, maybe a victorious battle, where treasure was stripped and deposited as a offering to the gods. in other words intentionally buried and not to be retrieved ...
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