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Metal Detecting Finds in Colombia

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

Artefacts from Colombia

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Famous findMade about AD 1295 to 1410 · found 1969

The Muisca Raft: the golden legend of El Dorado, found in a Colombian cave

Colombia · ArtefactsRef 209

In 1969 a farmworker found a small gold model of a raft carrying a chief and his attendants in a cave above Pasca, near Bogotá. It brings to life the ceremony behind the legend of El Dorado, and it is the most famous object in Colombia's Gold Museum.