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Metal Detecting Finds in Brunei

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

Artefacts from Brunei

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FF 579

Famous findSank around 1500 · found 1997

The Brunei shipwreck: an oil company's pipeline survey found a Ming-era trading ship 63 metres down, packed with 13,000 objects

Brunei · Artefacts

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.