Posted on 10/24/2004 9:25:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Perhaps the most famous gold object discovered in Cornwall is the magnificent cup made from corrugated sheet gold found in a cist in Rillaton barrow on the edge of Bodmin Moor (SX2603 7191), about a quarter of a mile NNE of the Hurlers stone circles. It was discovered in 1837 together with the skeleton of a man, a bronze dagger, pieces of ivory and glass beads (all now lost)... Patricia M. Christie in an essay entitled “Cornwall in the Bronze Age” (Cornish Archaeology, 25. p.96) makes the intriguing suggestion that the cup may be connected to the Aegean, specifically the Mycenean world, and be evidence of contact between the Bronze Age peoples in the two areas.
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Until I read the entire article, I thought that included the cup, in some kind of disaster.
I wonder if those other items in sitting forgotten in someone's attic or barn...or museum basement?
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Nice piece. Find the rest of the breakfast set and you will have solved several mysteries.
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