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⁶⁸ op. cit. (note 65).

⁶⁹ A.O. Curie, The Treasure of Traprain (1923), 108: ‘The loot was broken up to allow equal distribution by actual, pieces’, of the hoard, which ‘represented the wealth of a robber band’. See his plates III, IV and XXXIV.

⁷⁰ Described by Curie, op. cit. (note 69), ch. ii, ‘Some Analogous Hoards’.