Wednesday 6 January 2016

The Mundeign Hoard


Few treasures have aroused so much interest as the Mundeign Hoard - a single piece of decorative truc the function of which remains to this day controversial. Conventional opinion suggests that it was worn as a breast-plate by priests of the Omnes cult - but carbon dating indicates that it is of an earlier origin - perhaps being created at around the same time as the original earthworks at Stonehenge (5000 years ago give or take a few months).

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