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Vilar de Santos, Limia, Ourense

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Curiosity · Vilar de Santos, Limia, Ourense

The arracada of Vilar de Santos is a piece of Castro-culture gold metalwork, dated to the Iron Age, found by chance in 1924 by Benito Saburido while he was opening a drainage channel at the place called Albariño, in this concello in the province of Ourense; after passing through private hands, it was acquired in 1979 by the Museo Arqueolóxico Provincial de Ourense, where it is kept. It stands out for its technical complexity -repoussé, filigree and granulation- and for its unique ornithomorphic decoration, with a water bird holding a bunch of grapes, as well as five conical capsules on its triangular body, a motif typical of the arracadas of A Limia. That it was found isolated and at a certain depth suggests it was hidden, probably ahead of the Roman conquest, by owners who were never able to recover it.

Photo: Lameiro (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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