Huelva

A town in southwest Spain in which a large hoard of Late Bronze Age bronzes, dated 8th-6th centuries BC, was found. Probably the cargo of a wrecked merchant ship, it included a remarkable range of types: carp's tongue sword, an Irish lunate spearhead, and a Cypriot type of elbowed fibula. It was originally a Carthaginian trading station and afterward a Roman colony (Onuba).

Find-spot in the harbour of Huelva, southwest Spain, of a large hoard of Late Bronze Age bronzes, dated to the 7th and 6th centuries bc. The find, which may represent the remains of a prehistoric shipwreck, contained bronzes of types found in various Mediterranean contexts (e.g. a Cypriot type of fibula), as well as types characteristic of the Atlantic Bronze Age (e.g. carp’s tongue swords).