1 published discovery from Myanmar — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Myanmar, a famous historical find. It is filed under artefacts. It is the Rangoon gold relics, 15th century, perhaps about 1400-1420.
The law: In Myanmar, 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.
On 13 April 1855, labourers clearing an old brick stupa near the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon for new British barracks found nine gold objects, among them reliquaries, a jewelled headdress and a bowl of burnt bone. The surviving pieces are in the V&A in London.
