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    As a part of the research for this module, I visited the British Museum website and found this exceptional gold vessel. “The Rillaton cup was named as one of Britain's top ten treasures.” according to The modern antiquarian website. It was discovered in 1837 by construction workers in a burial cairn at Bodmin Moor.

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    As a part of the research for this module, I visited the British Museum website and found this exceptional gold vessel. “The Rillaton cup was named as one of Britain's top ten treasures.” according to The modern antiquarian website. It was discovered in 1837 by construction workers in a burial cairn at Bodmin Moor.

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    Gold Cup Tuan Nguyen

    As a part of the research for this module, I visited the


    British Museum website and found this exceptional gold
    vessel. The Rillaton cup was named as one of Britain's top
    ten treasures. according to The modern antiquarian website.
    It was discovered in 1837 by construction workers in a burial
    cairn at Bodmin Moor. Although little is known about how
    the round-bottomed cup was buried or where the gold was
    mined, it is clear that the cup was buried with someone of
    great wealth and power. After its discovery, the cup became
    lost but turned up years later in the dressing room of King
    George V as a receptacle for his collar studs.
    The cup was made some time between 1700 to 1500 BC in Rillaton, Cornwall, England.
    The main body of the cup was pounded out of a single lump of gold of high purity. These are
    some of the dimensions of the cup: 85 mm in height, 85 mm in diameter, and it weights 76.6
    g. The Rillaton gold cup is instanced as an example of the links between the Aegean and the
    North in the fifteenth century B.C.The close concentric-circle designs, popular in the Irish Late
    Bronze Age, are given as derived from Denmark and south Sweden, and the authors further
    note that imported amber appears in Ireland about the same time (JSTOR)

    Ringlemere Cup (left) and Rillaton Cup (right) are two of the
    only examples of corrugated Bronze Age gold cups.

    The Rillaton Gold Cup is still belongs to the Royal Collection. An exact copy may be
    seen in the Royal Cornwall Museum at Truro. In 2007 there have been calls in the local
    Cornish press for the Rillaton Gold Cup to be returned to the Cornwall from the British
    Museum.
    References:
    http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/10402/rillaton_barrow.html
    http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9114(195210)56%3A4%3C231%3AAPBOAB%3E2.0.CO
    %3B2-X&cookieSet=1
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/1267260097/

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