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Metal Detecting Finds in Algeria

1 published discovery in the Jewellery category from Algeria — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Jewellery from Algeria

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Famous findBuried in the 4th or 5th century AD · found 1925

The Tomb of Tin Hinan: a Saharan queen's gold bracelets, dated by the ghost of a Roman coin

Algeria · JewelleryFF 316

In 1925 an expedition led by the showman Byron Khun de Prorok opened a great stone tomb at Abalessa in the Algerian Sahara. Inside lay a woman wearing seven gold bracelets weighing more than 1.7 kilograms, revered by the Tuareg as their ancestral queen, Tin Hinan.