Small gold items discovered over a period of years by eight different metal detectorists may all be from a 16th-century hatA very small treasure hoard – a handful of tiny fragments of beautifully worked Tudor gold – has been harvested from a muddy stretch of the Thames foreshoreover a period of years by eight different metal detectorists.The pieces all date from the early 16th century,and the style of the tiny pieces of gold is so similar that Kate Sumnall, an archaeologist, or believes they all came from the disastrous loss of one fabulous garment,possibly a hat snatched off a passenger’s head by a gust of wind at a time when the main river crossings were the myriad (a very large number) ferry boats.
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Source: theguardian.com