Did any Caribbean pirates, for instance, really bury their treasure?
Given the similarities between Egil's Saga and many pirate myths, do we know if Robert Louis Stevenson was familiar with the Icelandic Sagas?
In Britain there have been numerous Roman hoards discovered, one of the largest being the recently discovered Seaton Hoard. A good example of a more recent hoard is the Cheapside Hoard, discovered under a London Cellar and thought to have been buried around the time of the English Civil War.