2,500-Year-Old Gold Necklaces Revealed After Landslide in Spain

By
Abdul Moeed
September 26, 2023



A gold torque necklace similar to the 2,500-year-old gold necklaces found in Spain. Credit: Lmbuga / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

Two ‘richly decorated’ gold necklaces, probably hidden away around 2,500 years ago, were recently uncovered in northern Spain when a landslide revealed them.

The first necklace, shaped like a “C,” was found by Sergio Narciandi. He works for a company that looks for sources of water in the Peñamellera Baja area of Asturias, a mountainous region.

Pablo Arias, a professor of ancient archaeology at the University of Cantabria in Spain and part of the excavation team, shared this with Live Science.

Necklaces dating back to 500 B.C. during the Iron Age of Iberia
Upon an initial examination of their style and craftsmanship, experts estimated that these necklaces originated from around 500 B.C. This places them within the Iron Age of Iberia, which encompasses the present-day regions of Spain and Portugal, as reported by the Spanish news source El País.

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