Sunday, October 23, 2022
Hoards
Max Martin, "Wealth and Treasure in the West, 4th to 7th Century," tr. Martin Brady, in Leslie Webster and Michelle Brown, edd., The Transformation of the Roman World, A.D. 400–900 (London: British Museum Press, 1997), pp. 48-66, with Plates 13-18, 30-31, 60 (at 63-64):
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A single, unrecovered hoard can to some extent be seen as evidence of a sporadic or local discontinuity of ownership. On the other hand, geographical and chronological concentrations of hoards do not simply amount to several sporadic discontinuities, but may instead represent a widespread, or indeed complete, discontinuity in the owners concerned, or even of the entire social stratum to which they belonged. It must always be borne in mind that an unknown number of hoards may have immediately been expropriated by new owners, with the result that there may well have been a considerably greater number of discontinuities than we are able to ascertain today. At any rate there could not have been fewer.Id., Plate 60, with caption "Roman gold and silver coins from the Hoxne hoard, deposited in the early fifth century. (Heirs of Rome, cat. 5a.)":
