Boljoon Museum: Archaeological findings housed in "Ang Karaang Bolhoon" gallery
A gold earring. The report also shows that the large bent tube gold earring was found on what was once the right ear of a male burial. A similar example is found in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Gold Collection taken from Surigao and is dated to the 14th up to the 16th century. “Boljoon is rich in heritage now because it is the only town that has evidence to show pre-Hispanic times,” remarked University of San Carlos' Jose Eleazar Bersales, head of the excavation project. The excavation report shows that their finds came from the Pre-Spanish (1550-1650) and Early Spanish (1700s-1800s) periods. Bersales further said that it is the first time that an earring was found on a male, that a ceramic bowl has Chinese characters as part of its design, and that it is first evidence throughout Cebu of a pre-Hispanic times. The Burials A total of nine burials in various states of internment were uncovered at a depth of 60-70 cm. This brings to a ...