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The Coleraine Hoard

Ballinrees, County Londonderry

The largest hoard of Roman silver ever found in Ireland.

In 1854 workmen near Coleraine found over 1,500 Roman silver coins and pieces of chopped-up silver plate. It is the largest Roman hoard ever found in Ireland, a land the Romans never conquered.

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When
Found 1854
Where
55.1100, -6.7400
Group
Lost treasure

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Displayed at the British Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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