The North Sea rovers were traders, colonisers, explorers, and plunderers. For ages the area was heavily forested and infested with plunderers and marauders. It suffered from anarchy and lawlessness due to regular attacks from highwaymen and plunderers. Before the town's development, the area was heavily forested and infested with plunderers and marauders. Abandoned, the lighthouse fell prey to plunderers and vandals. But the images of Vikings as bloodthirsty plunderers are not always representative. The peasants killed many of the scattered plunderers. The plunderers themselves were hanged upside down. Some were helped by villagers on the way, others fell prey to plunderers. The sarcophagus and its contents had been removed by early plunderers of the tomb. He was essentially a juvenile delinquent cowboy in "The Plunderers" (1960), tormenting Jeff Chandler. Centuries later, a group of modern-day Soviet and British plunderers search for the long-lost abbey. The stupa features a large defect in its mound, which was created by plunderers. They supported local gigs by eastern states bands, Ratcat, Falling Joys and the Plunderers.