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The Water Newton Treasure

Water Newton, Cambridgeshire

The earliest known Christian church silver from anywhere in the Roman Empire.

In 1975 a ploughed field near the site of the Roman town of Durobrivae gave up a hoard of silver bowls, cups and small plaques. Many are marked with the Chi-Rho, an early Christian symbol.

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When
Found 1975
Where
52.5600, -0.3600
Group
Lost treasure

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Displayed at the British Museum.

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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