1 published discovery from Uganda — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Uganda, a famous historical find. It is filed under artefacts. It is the Luzira Head, buried about AD 900-1100.
The law: In Uganda, 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.
In 1929 a gang of prisoners levelling a hilltop to enlarge Luzira prison, near Kampala in Uganda, dug up broken clay figures. Among them was a hollow terracotta head with three scars across its brow, about a thousand years old. It has been in the British Museum since 1931.
