Casco de Leiro
Casco de Leiro | |
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Material | Gold |
Height | 15 cm |
Width | 19.5 cm |
Created | c. 900 BC |
Discovered | 7 April 1976 Leiro, Galicia, Spain |
Discovered by | Jose Somoza |
The gold Casco de Leiro ("Helmet of Leiro") is a ritual hemispherical cap probably dating to the end of the Late Bronze Age[1] (circa 1,000 to 800 BC) in the town of Leiro (municipality of Rianxo, Galicia, Spain). The circumstances of its discovery show that technically it constitutes part of a hoard.[2]
The cap, hammered from a single casting of gold,
Its registers of hammered decoration present parallels with the decors of late Bronze Age conical
The casque was a chance discovery made by a fisherman, José Vicente Somoza, on 7 April 1976 at a small rocky point called
See also
Notes
- ^ Museo Arqueolóxico e Histórico webpage; "We believe that the most coherent archaeological context for the dating of Leiro would correspond to the final centuries of the Late Bronze Age" (Beatriz Comendador Rey, "The Leiro Hoard (Galicia, Spain): the lonely find?", Gold und kult der Bronzezeit, exhibition catalogue, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2003:176-188)
- ^ As remarked by Almeida et al., "Galicia Different Place: da cronoloxía do ouro precastrexo e ouros tópicos", Historia Nova: Contribución dos Xoves Historiadores do Galicis 3 (1994:30f), noted by Comendador Rey 2003.
- ^ Armbruster 1999:243f
- ^ Gallego Wikipedia.
- ^ Comendador Rey, 2003:
- sherdssuggests "a good-size hemispherical vessel with a coarse finish".
- ^ Museo Arqueolóxico e Histórico webpage