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Rillaton Cup

Near Minions, Bodmin Moor

A Bronze Age gold cup that ended up holding a king's collar studs.

In 1837 workmen dug into a burial mound near the Hurlers and found a gold cup beside a skeleton. Local legend had long told of a druid who offered hunters a drink from a golden cup that never ran dry.

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When
Found 1837
Where
50.5190, -4.4570
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

The barrow is on the moor near Minions; the cup is in London.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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