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Metal Detecting Finds in Malaysia

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

Artefacts from Malaysia

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FF 540

Famous findMade between the 7th and 12th centuries AD · found 1936

The Bidor Bodhisattva: tin miners in Malaysia dug up an eight-armed bronze figure weighing 63 kilograms

Malaysia · Artefacts

In 1936 miners working a tin mine at Bidor in Perak, Malaysia, uncovered a bronze statue of the Buddhist bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara with eight arms, 93 cm tall and weighing 63 kg. Made between the 7th and 12th centuries, it is now in the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur.