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Mildenhall Treasure

West Row, Suffolk

Roman silver dug up by a ploughman and kept on a sideboard for four years.

In 1942 ploughman Gordon Butcher struck metal in a field. His employer, Sydney Ford, took the 34 blackened pieces home and quietly used some of them.

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When
Found 1942
Where
52.3400, 0.5100
Group
Lost treasure

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On display at the British Museum, London.

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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