Celtic buried treasure unearthed in Brittany

 The largest treasure trove of pre-Roman, Gaulish money ever to be found has been discovered in Saint-Brieuc in central Brittany.

The 545 coins are each worth thousands of dollars to collectors but priceless to historians and archaeologists. Smaller caches of Gaulish coins have turned up in the past but rarely of such quality and never in such numbers.

The dig unearthed the remains of a large manor house or farm, which is thought to have belonged to the “Osisme” people – a Celtic tribe living in the far west of the Breton peninsula. The coins were probably buried in the farm’s boundary embankment. Possibly to hide the wealth from the Romans.

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