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Metal Detecting Finds in Philippines

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

Artefacts from Philippines

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Famous findSank on 14 December 1600 · found 1991

The San Diego: a Spanish galleon that sank in battle off Manila in 1600, found 52 metres down

Philippines · ArtefactsRef 261

On 14 December 1600 the overloaded Spanish galleon San Diego sank off Fortune Island in the Philippines after a battle with a Dutch ship, taking hundreds of men with her. In 1991 Franck Goddio's team found her 52 metres down and recovered thousands of objects.