Recovered Hoards
The Carambolo Treasure
~7th c. BC · found 1958 · El Carambolo, Camas, near Seville, Spain
Recovered (museum)The prize. 21 pieces of Tartessian gold, the wealth that fed the Atlantis myth
Where. El Carambolo, Camas, near Seville, Spain
Status. Recovered (museum)
Where. El Carambolo, Camas, near Seville, Spain
Status. Recovered (museum)
The account
Workers at a pigeon-shooting club on a hill above Seville dug up a ceramic pot in 1958 packed with twenty-one pieces of elaborate goldwork, Spanish gold worked in the Phoenician manner, twenty-seven centuries old. It belonged to Tartessos, the rich, half-legendary kingdom of the Spanish south that some have tried to read as Plato's Atlantis.
How it was found
- Workers expanding a pigeon-shooting club on a hill outside Seville in 1958 dug up a ceramic pot holding 21 pieces of worked Tartessian gold.
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