A Late Iron Age/Romano-British hinged collar or neck-ring has be discovered in Newquay. Although found in 1996, completely by chance, its true importance went unrecognised and it spent some ten years in a garden shed!

In 2007 the finder contacted the Newquay Old Cornwall Society who in turn approached Jacky Nowakowski - senior archaeologist for Cornwall Historic Environment Service and director of the 1987 dig at Trethellan Farm overlooking the Gannel. It was one of those jaw-dropping moments when she suspected a find of major importance.

The British Museum authenticated the find following a study by Iron Age specialists and a detailed scientific examination involving the use of X-rays and metal analysis. The neck-ring is in an excellent state of preservation, is made of cast leaded-bronze, and has been dated to the Late Iron Age/Romano-British period (100BC - AD100).