Extraordinary Le Catillon II Hoard – Unparalleled Assortment of Celtic Currency and Ornaments

Archaeologists allow public to see important phase of conservation work on remarkable Le Catillon II Hoard.

Peeling back the top five centimetres of a pile of buried in a field 2,000 years ago, archaeologists in Jersey are preparing to carefully extract a layer of gold jewellery in a specially-constructed laboratory at La Hougue Bie Museum, in the Jersey parish of Grouville.

The museum is currently in the middle of a week-long opening, allowing the public to watch conservator Neil Mahrer and his team preserve the coins, which have been re-dated to between 30-40 BC. They are largely French but contain a number from the south coast of England, with torques, a “beautifully-crafted” silver

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