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		jurschreuder 37 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't un... Maybe it was like a safe. If people wanted to steel something it would take them a very long time and they would be very easy to stop from ever coming out alive.

IAmBroom 37 days ago [–]

That's what buried silver hoards are for, which have the additional advantage of being pretty much unfindable after the sod reintegrates overhead.

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