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Metal Detecting Finds in Bangladesh

1 published discovery from Bangladesh — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Global Finds has 1 find from Bangladesh, a famous historical find. It is filed under hoards. It is the Wari-Bateshwar silver coins, struck about 600 to 200 BC.

The law: In Bangladesh, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.

Discoveries from Bangladesh

1 find

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Famous findStruck about 600 to 200 BC · found 1933

The Wari-Bateshwar Coins: a schoolteacher saved a handful of silver from a labourers' pot and found a lost city

Bangladesh · Hoards

In 1933 labourers digging at Wari, in what is now Bangladesh, found a pot of tiny silver punch-marked coins up to 2,600 years old. A local schoolteacher, Hanif Pathan, saved some of them and spent his life searching the fields, leading archaeologists to a forgotten city.