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Metal Detecting Finds in Bulgaria

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

Jewellery from Bulgaria

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Famous findBuried about 4600 to 4350 BC (Copper Age) · found 1972

The Varna gold: the oldest worked gold in the world

Bulgaria · JewelleryRef 129

In 1972 a young excavator driver digging a cable trench in Varna, Bulgaria, uncovered a Copper Age cemetery full of gold. Made around 4500 BC, it is the oldest worked gold yet found anywhere.