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Broighter Gold
The Broighter Gold or more correctly, the Broighter Hoard, is a hoard of gold artefacts from the Iron Age of the 1st century BC that were found in 1896 by Tom Nicholl and James Morrow on farmland near Limavady, Northern Ireland.〔 The hoard includes a gold boat, a gold torc and bowl and some other jewellery. A design from the hoard has been used as an image on British one-pound coins〔 and the gold ship featured in a design on the last Irish one-pound coins.〔 The Broighter Collar and Broighter Ship also featured on definitive postage stamps of Ireland from 1990–1995. The National Museum of Ireland, who now hold the hoard, describe the torc as the "finest example of Irish La Tène goldworking".〔 Replicas of the collection are kept at the Ulster Museum in Belfast.
==Discovery==
The hoard was found near Lough Foyle in a field in the townland of Broighter ()〔(Broighter/Brú Íochtair ) ''Placenames Database of Ireland''. Retrieved: 2011-05-31.〕 2 km northwest of Limavady in County Londonderry. It was discovered by Thomas Nicholl and James Morrow〔(Myths and Legends ), Limavady.gov.uk, accessed July 2010〕 while working as ploughmen for Joseph L. Gibson in February 1896. They found the hoard whilst double ploughing. That means that one plough would follow the other to gain extra depth. It was estimated that the finds were buried deep and were in close proximity to each other.
The find was taken to the farm where Maggie (later Mrs Nicholl) washed the items in a sink. At that time they did not realise they were made from gold.〔(The Broighter Hoard: Or How Carson Caught the Boat ), Ken Neill, Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer, 1993), pp. 24-26, accessed July 2010〕 The hoard was eventually sold to the British Museum for six hundred pounds. It consisted of a miniature ship, complete with fittings and oars; two necklets, a bowl and a torc (or hollow collar). The find was described as a lump of mud when initially shown. Moreover the boat had been so badly damaged by the plough that it took a goldsmith to later work out its structure.
Part of the boat, a thwart, was found a few days later and sold by Morrow's sister to a jeweller in Londonderry.〔(The Broighter Boat a reassessment ), A.W.Farrell et al, 1975, Irish Archaeological Research Forum, accessed July 2010〕
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