Posted by Hovite
on 5/11/2009, 8:17:05
81.98.144.133
"I basically parked the car up and got the metal detector out and picked a direction to set off and about seven steps later there it was. It was the first thing I came across."
The treasure consists of gold torcs that would have been worn by Celtic nobles during the period immediately prior to the Roman invasion.
The tribe living in this region at the time were the Dumnonii, who were a British (Welsh) people. They survived the Roman period to emerge as the Kingdom of Strathclyde, only to fall to invading Irish (Scots).
The picture below is a Greek statue of Celtic warrior with his characteristic spiked hair, moustache, and torc:
Amateur 'stunned' after £1m find
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