I missed last week because it was more gold torques, but again this week there is a 19th century gold hoard found in a burial chamber by the small lake of Mooghaun.
" A little under 3,000 years ago someone in Ireland was very, very rich. In March 1854 a ganger ordered some navvies working on the construction of the West Clare Railway near Newmarket-on-Fergus to straighten a dyke running close to the small lake of Mooghaun. They shifted a stone and found a small rough chamber with a flagstone on top. When they opened it they uncovered the largest hoard of Bronze Age gold objects ever found in western or northern Europe."
http://www.irishtimes.com/news[...]d/2011/0430/1224295739750.html
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