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The Preslav Gold Treasure

10th c. · found 1978, Near Veliki Preslav, NE Bulgaria
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Preslav Gold Treasure: still unexplained.

170+ pieces of First Bulgarian Empire gold

The law of this ground: Bulgarian national treasure; held in state museums.
The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
170+ pieces of First Bulgarian Empire gold
The account

A deeper-than-usual plough in 1978 shattered a buried kiln and flung gold across a Bulgarian field, over 170 pieces of tenth-century jewellery, set with emeralds, sapphires, and pearls, some of it made in Constantinople itself. A Byzantine-Bulgarian fortune, hidden at the height of an empire and turned up by a tractor a thousand years on.

How it was found
  • Found in 1978 in a vineyard near the old Bulgarian capital of Preslav, a Byzantine gold treasure of a 10th-century noblewoman, jewelry and a medallion.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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The full hunt kit

Starting brief, what's known and disputed, evidence timeline, source list, map card, coordinate-confidence and legal-access summaries, and a field checklist, free with a Fellowship account.

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Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

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