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Recovered Hoard · Środa Śląska, Poland

The Środa Treasure

The Środa Treasure: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: TraditionPawned ~1348 · found 1985 to 88 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

Demolition crews renovating an old Polish town turned up, in the rubble, a king's ransom: gold florins, jewelled rings, and a woman's crown believed to have belonged to an empress, regalia pawned to the town's financiers by Charles IV himself. Some pieces were reportedly pocketed before the rest was saved. What remains is one of Europe's great medieval finds.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: A royal crown and medieval gold, among the most valuable hoards ever found

How it was found: During building renovations in Sroda Slaska, Poland, in the late 1980s, workers found a medieval royal treasure, a golden crown and jewels, hidden in the walls and cellars and forgotten for centuries.

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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