1 published discovery from Brunei — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Brunei, a famous historical find. It is filed under artefacts. It is the Brunei shipwreck, sank around 1500.
The law: In Brunei, 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.
In 1997 crews from the oil company Elf, surveying the seabed off Brunei for a pipeline, found a wreck about 63 m down. French underwater archaeologists raised more than 13,000 objects in 1998, from Ming porcelain to bronze gongs and metal ingots, carried by a trading ship that sank around 1500.
