A hoard of gold. Gold hoard. Someone hoards 1300 years ago and then someone finds the hoard.

“The quantity of gold is amazing but, more importantly, the craftsmanship is consummate,” said archaeologist Kevin Leahy, who catalogued the find. “This was the very best that the Anglo-Saxon metalworkers could do, and they were very good.”... “It looks like a collection of trophies, but it is impossible to say if the hoard was the spoils from a single battle or a long and highly successful military career,” he said. “We also cannot say who the original, or the final, owners were, who took it from them, why they buried it or when. It will be debated for decades.”

Hugely neato. It does make you wonder, though, that if the mania for gold were not a continuing facet of our culture whether this would be such an immediately compelling story. The Lepane were the wampum "miners" of Long Island whose work became currency, teletype and, in a belt, the stuff of contract for eastern North America. I have been gifted some and it is pretty snazzy. I've sold a gold coin but I would be hard pressed to sell the wampum.