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Traprain Law Treasure

Near East Linton, East Lothian

Roman silver, cut up for payment, buried on a Scottish hill.

In 1919 archaeologists digging on Traprain Law, a great hill fort, found over 20 kilograms of Roman silver. Most of it had been cut up or crushed, ready to be shared out by weight.

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When
Found 1919
Where
55.9630, -2.6720
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

Traprain Law is a free hill walk; the treasure is in Edinburgh.

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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