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Forró () is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern British Museum Collection
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Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
. , the village had a population of 2,459. A large Bronze Age
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hoard was discovered at the village in the 19th century. The treasure is now in the collections of the British Museum
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, London
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See also
* Zsujta for another Bronze Agehoard
A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache. This would usually be with the intention of ...
from northern Hungary
*Paks
Paks is a small town in Tolna (county), Tolna county, in the south of Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube River, 100 km south of Budapest. Paks as a former agricultural settlement is now the home of the only Hungarian Paks Nuclear Pow ...
- Dunaföldvár gold hoard from the Bronze Age
References
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub