Bodonal de la Sierra Hoard

This hoard was discovered in 1943 inside a clay vessel that has not been preserved. It consists of nineteen gold pieces weighing slightly more than 1.5 kg and represents a curious enigma in Iberian prehistory, as practically all the identifiable elements of the hoard are parts of buffer torcs, or torcs with flaring terminals, whose area of distribution is limited to the British Isles and the French Atlantic seaboard. It has been suggested that their anomalous presence in Extremadura may be related to Atlantic trade routes, by which this jewellery made its way south, perhaps as a gift or trading commodity.
Other possible explanation is that the hoard, which consists almost entirely of fragments and twisted bars resembling bracelets, may have been imported as raw material no longer in use—in other words, as “scrap metal” for making new jewellery pieces more suited to local tastes.