[1][2] The hoard of silver objects was found by chance in 1915 at Molino de Marrubial, a suburb of the city of Córdoba in the province of Andalucia, Spain.

The Cordoba Treasure eventually came into the possession of the American art collector Walter Leo Hildburgh, who sold it to the British Museum in 1932.

The treasure is one of the few Iron Age hoards from the Iberian Peninsula to be in the collection of a museum outside Spain or Portugal.

The silver treasure includes a large circular torc with terminals in the form of double cones, eight armlets with zoomorphic relief decoration, a brooch in the shape of two horses' heads, a conical bowl, over three hundred coins, two lumps of silver and other miscellaneous objects including rods and ingots.

The large amount of silver in the treasure could have meant that its owner planned to melt it down at one stage, but for some reason was unable to.