A collection of Iron Age jewellery found by a treasure hunter in Stirlingshire has gone on display in Edinburgh .
The four solid gold neck ornaments, or torcs, could be more than 2,000 years old and were found in a field by safari park manager David Booth, who was using a metal detector for the first time.
They are now owned by the Crown and have been placed on public view at the National Museum of Scotland . Fraser Hunter, the museum's curator, said: "These four gold torcs are very beautiful, very displayable objects. They have many stories to tell."
Further excavations were carried out in the field where the find was made, but no further gold has been discovered. However, archaeologists have found a timber-frame building and they believe the site could have been some kind of shrine. Mr Hunter commented: "The torcs may have been an offering to an unknown god. This is not a normal domestic site."
Iron age gold jewellery on display in Edinburgh
Fri, 22 Jan 2010
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