The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 45, October 23, 2005, Article 12

A THEORY ON ROMAN GOLD IN BRITAIN

Arthur Shippee forwarded the following story which was
noted in The Explorator newsletter:

"More Roman gold is found in Britain than anywhere else
- and now a Welsh academic has come up with an intriguing
theory explaining why.

Thousands of gold and silver artifacts from the Roman period,
especially when the conquerors finally left these islands in the
4th and 5th centuries.

Dr Peter Guest, of Cardiff University's School of History and
Archaeology, is the leading expert on the biggest ever Roman
gold treasure discovered in Britain. In 1992, 15,000 gold and
silver coins were found at Hoxne in Suffolk in 1992.

In a lecture, Dr Guest is to propose that the large amounts of
Roman gold and silver buried beneath our feet could be because
something happened in the late Empire similar to the abolition
of the gold standard in the 1930s."

"Dr Guest explained that the gold mostly comes from a 50-year
period towards the end of Roman occupation.

He said, "Before then, Britain is not very special, but in that
50-year phase, which coincides with the end of Roman control,
lots of stuff is found."

"We had been part of the Empire for 350 years by that time,
which is a very long time.

"It happened very suddenly and it might have been quite violent
and one of the reasons for the huge amount of gold and silver
is related to this separation."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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