For the less confident, of course, there was only one thing to do: bury their treasure and head for the hills, planning, as refugees always do, to return when the worst was over and dig it all up again. But in the case of this particular hoard of 15,000 coins, gems, medals, and this exquisite silver tigress, they never did. It was instead discovered in 1992 at Hoxne in Suffolk and is now kept in the British Museum. Some sort of force was badly needed to stop the barbarians in the north and west from exploiting the yawning vacuum of power left by the exit of the legions.