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The Mooghaun Hoard

Near Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare

The biggest prehistoric gold hoard in western Europe, mostly melted down.

In 1854 railway workers near Mooghaun found a huge hoard of Bronze Age gold: bracelets, collars and rings. It was the largest find of prehistoric gold ever made in western Europe.

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When
Found 1854
Where
52.7600, -8.8800
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

Some pieces are in the National Museum of Ireland. Mooghaun hillfort is nearby.

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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