Broighter Gold
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The Broighter Gold or more correctly, the Broighter Hoard, is a hoard of gold artefacts from the Iron Age of the 1st century BC that were found in 1896 by Tom Nicholl and James Morrow on farmland near Limavady, Ireland.[1] The hoard includes a 7-inch-long (18 cm) gold boat, a gold torc and bowl and some other jewellery.
Broighter Hoard | |
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Material | Gold |
Period/culture | 1st century |
Discovered | 1896, near Limavady, Ireland, by Tom Nicholl and James Morrow |
Present location | National Museum of Ireland |
The National Museum of Ireland, who now hold the hoard, describe the torc as the "finest example of Irish La Tène goldworking".[2] Replicas of the collection are kept at the Ulster Museum in Belfast.
A somewhat puzzling aspect of the hoard is that scientific analysis suggests the same source for the gold in all the pieces, but they show a great diversity in style, from Celtic to Roman.[3]
A design from the hoard has been used as an image on the 1996 issue of the Northern Ireland British one-pound coins[4] and the gold ship featured in a design on the last Irish commemorative one-pound coins.[5] The Broighter Collar and Broighter Ship also featured on definitive postage stamps of Ireland from 1990 to 1995.