Assertion: hoard | /r/HasProperty | buried
Facets:
value: hastily
type: MANNER
value: probably
type: DEGREE
value: deliberately
type: MANNER
value: from raiding
type: OTHER
value: carefully
type: MANNER
value: some distance from any buildings
type: LOCATION
value: evidently
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: It is unknown whether any of the people named in these inscriptions would have been involved in hiding the hoard or were even alive at the time it was buried.
text: A hoard of loot is a buried collection of spoils from raiding and is more in keeping with the popular idea of "buried treasure".
text: The hoard is now housed in Room 50 of the British Museum in London and was part of the Buried Treasure:
text: The hoard evidently was buried carefully, some distance from any buildings.
text: There are a number of theories about why the hoard was buried.
text: Archaeologist Peter Guest argues that the hoard was buried because the items in it were used as part of a system of gift-exchange, and as Britain separated from the Roman Empire, they were no longer required.
text: Although it is not known why the hoard was buried, there are several theories including it being a votive hoard, or a communal hoard "collected and buried for the benefit of the community", either as a war chest for an impending threat or as a tribute payment to avert invasion.
text: Although the precise circumstances of how and why the hoard was buried can never be known, archaeologists believe it likely occurred as the Vikings were forced to travel north of the River Thames to East Anglia after their decisive defeat by King Alfred the Great of Wessex at the Battle of Edington in 878 A.D.
text: The finding indicates that the hoard was deliberately buried.
text: Why was the hoard buried?
text: The dates of the later coins show that the hoard was buried after the Anglo Saxon king, Athelstan, conquered Northumbria in AD 927.
text: When was the hoard buried?
text: I’s reign are of the very first design that was issued after his coronation on Christmas Day 1066, suggesting that the hoard was probably buried only a year or two later, most likely not much after 1068.
text: The hoard was buried in what was then the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, about ten miles west of Tamworth, which would eventually be the major Mercian royal centre, and only five from Lichfield, where later Mercian kings hoped to establish their own archbishopric.
text: The hoard, which was likely hastily buried but never recovered, includes what could be a 'battle shrine' containing a processional cross that suggests that Christian emblems were used as good-luck charms for battle.
text: The hoard, which was likely hastily buried but never recovered, includes a processional cross that suggests that Christian emblems were used as good-luck charms for battle
text: When was the hoard buried?
text: This suggests that these issues were circulating locally, and that the hoard was buried only a few years after this coinage was first introduced.
text: Many aspects of life for people in the Winchester area were changing at the time this hoard was buried.