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The discovery of the earring of Vilar de Santos

Vilar de Santos, Limia, Ourense

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The discovery of the earring of Vilar de Santos

Historical milestone · Vilar de Santos, Limia, Ourense

Image of Vilar de Santos, not of the place itself.

In 1924, while Benito Saburido was digging a drainage channel, a pre-Roman gold earring from the Iron Age turned up by chance at the site of Albariño — one of the most notable pieces of castro goldwork from the Limia region for its complex technique and its singular bird decoration. Its isolated find, at a certain depth, suggests it was hidden amid the instability of the Roman conquest, with the intention of recovering it later, which never came to happen. After passing through private hands, it was acquired in 1979 by the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Ourense, where it is preserved and exhibited today.

1924

Photo: Lameiro (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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