Hoards
Ghey, Eleanor2015
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Many of the rarest and most beautiful objects in museum collections today were once deliberately placed in the ground by their owners and never recovered until found by an archaeologist, metal detectorist or, in some cases, just an ordinary passer-by. This book investigates the most interesting and bountiful hoard discoveries as well as the practice of hoarding itself. Exploring the great variety of hoards, all the way from Bronze Age weapon deposits, Greek and Roman coin hoards and impressive Viking wealth to gold sovereigns hidden in the 20th century, it considers who was responsible for the hoarding and why they might have been compelled to do so.
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Hoards / Eleanor Ghey.
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London : The British Museum Press, 2015.
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128 pages : illustrations (colour)
ISBN:
9780714118253 (pbk)
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English
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BRN:
1268200
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