Arcillera is a small village in the province of Zamora, Spain, close to the border with

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

. A Celtic hoard of silver jewellery and

denarii The denarius (, dēnāriī ) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238–244), when it was gradually replaced by the antoninianus. It continued to be minted in very ...

dating to approximately 20 BC was found in Arcillera in the early twentieth century. It is now mostly preserved in the collections of the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

.British Museum Collection
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Municipalities of the Province of Zamora Celtic art Prehistoric objects in the British Museum {{Zamora-geo-stub

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