The Birdlip Mirror: A Celtic Masterpiece from the Hilltop

In 1879 a workman at Birdlip unearthed an Iron Age burial containing one of the finest Celtic bronze mirrors ever found in Britain — now a treasure of the Gloucester City Museum. In 1879 quarrymen working on Barrow Wake, the exposed hilltop just north of Birdlip village, broke into an Iron Age burial that had lain undisturbed for nearly two thousand years. Inside they found th...