I’ll bite.
so accessibility with the amount of weight in such cases would be important
I don’t think in the final stages and Main bank/Vault would be abandoned within a day’s ride. its been centralized over a lifetime. Dragging it out and across vast distances would be an OpSEC mistake and nightmare. Exposing what took decades to a mass would deconstruct what great care and design hand already been accomplished.
Doable.
So too a downstairs below ground cache in a non remote area. Have such existed? In what frequency in relation to known remote outdoor ones? And by any given group?
Where members are daily /frequently. Vs. out on the high lonesome awaiting transport and distribution by a don't mind us strangers doing strange things peoples..
Depending on what group is involved (I'm generalizing , not dismissing your suspicions)
What if a ship was involved?
Are trains in existence , and planned in distribution? (Who owns or controls them might factor.)
Where funds go and how fast determine how effective they might be.
Underfoot is accessible. Portable vs buried outrageously or cordoned by house sized boulders held fast by a ravine ect. is not portable. Or really even accessible in a hurry.
And war can be a hurry.
Predating domestic war concern groups in a gap between wars we still have the question of funds direction. Ending point coffers.
I'm open to debate about remote caches of wealth. Not enamored of thier potential security back in time. Beginning with landownership and those who didn't own the land on a given site but used it.
Private land (I'm fairly versed with modern trespass conflicts) wasn't such a deal.
People following a water way while traveling or a particular geographic feature saving time and effort to pass through an area.
Hunting.
People were not as anal about someone crossing thier land out of sight of the house.
Or natives on the move.
However , one couldn't always assume one was alone. Or unseen.
A group of non "regulars"? Is going to attract attention. Somewhere they were not on the property. Now here's a bunch of tracks where a single or double set are rare.
You notice the group of vehicles parked near your place where a single seldom is? Similar notice.
Unlike a man in a building he "belongs" in (by observer's habit of notice) visiting it's basement or cellar or raised floor board before departing and joining twenty others who did the same thing.
We're hauling a mass from a remote seldom visited by us area ?
Where and how the group of individual collectorate gather matters. But they have a consolidation of something collected to distribute. With diverse squirreled cache sites to offset a main one being breached and robbed or made inaccessible by war ect.. Or an individuals participated nulled or cut short.
WW2 some kids were running around a railroad building playing with handguns from donated for England stock from bins in the same building.
Nothing bad came of it per the kids or building. Kids played there as ever.
But it points out collection (and the collections consolidated could in theory be backtracked) and distribution at a hub not remote.
But rather funneled in from remote at a major (per area/region) distribution site.
Yes that's not looking for a doorknob on your site.
It is asking you how your site relates to recovery and distribution and how everything including the site is a secure (no one questioning or challenging it) transaction.
when a property border needed crossed it was best to be in the right. Which isn't too sassy about it.
But when township or county borders were involved and you're hauling anything of value?
Territories and states borders?
Folks were not huddled in caves and ignorant of what went on in life.
Let's point at horse and cattle thefts. So we're not driving a herd of stolon stock on land we don't have permission to graze on.
But folks laundering such could be hauling a wagon of about anything .
So wagons got looked in and explained.
You have an armed guard on the wagon of wealth?
You going to kill a deputy for looking?
Tracks were damaged during the civil war.
Railroads were taken over.
Handy for hauling though. As demonstrated at the tail end. (Predictable trail once direction was established though.)
But wealth spread out might plug a need sooner than awaiting the logistics being implemented getting it to Boston for example from a lonesome mid desert site in the S.W..
And what were/are the odds of the S.W. being a hotbed of war position activity back then?
But ,backtrack sometimes when you can.
Look for distribution. Around it can sometimes be more ideas as to hows and whys or better yet , wheres..
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