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The Lough Kinale Book Shrine

Lough Kinale, County Longford

A decorated box for a holy book, found by divers in a lake.

In 1986 divers exploring Lough Kinale found an ornate book shrine, a metal box made around 800 to hold a precious holy book. It is decorated with crosses and bosses.

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When
Found 1986
Where
53.7300, -7.4000
Group
Lost treasure

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Displayed at the National Museum of Ireland.

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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