Autumn -Rogozen Treasure: In the village ofRogozen,Vratsa Province, Bulgaria, tractor driver Ivan Dimitrov discovers 65 silver vessels in his garden. In1986 archaeologists will discover a second hoard consisting of 100 vessels near the spot. Archaeologists date the treasure to the 5th-4th centuries BCE.
Cosquer Cave found on the Mediterranean coast of France by diver Henri Cosquer; survivingcave paintings includeGravettian hand stencils andSolutrean animal paintings including agreat auk, the earliest known depiction of a seabird.[4]
Wrecks of threeSpanish Armada ships driven ashore in Autumn 1588,La Lavia,La Juliana, andSanta Maria de Vison, found at Streedagh Strand, north ofRosses Point on the west coast of Ireland.[5][6]
The oldest known representation of acannon, a stone relief sculpture dated 1128, is discovered carved in the walls of Cave 149 of theDazu Rock Carvings inDazu,Chongqing, China.[10]
^Birch, Steven; McElvogue, D. M. (1999). "La Lavia, La Juliana and the Santa Maria de Vison: three Spanish Armada transports lost off Streedagh Strand, Co Sligo: an interim report".International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.28 (3):265–276.Bibcode:1999IJNAr..28..265B.doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.1999.tb00836.x.
