Collection I · Lusitania
Jewellery with a source.
Each piece is drawn from a real object dug out of the ground, and each one tells you which. Sterling silver and gold vermeil, designed by an archaeologist, made by goldsmiths in the north of Portugal.
- Cited, not inventedEvery piece names the object, culture and period it comes from.
- Sterling silver & vermeil925 silver, or 925 silver with a thick 18K gold layer. Never brass.
- Hallmarked in PortugalAssayed and marked by the Portuguese assay office.
- 30-day returnsFree returns anywhere in the European Union.
The first edition
View all piecesCastro Torc
An open collar with knotted terminals
From €220
Sithathoryunet Pectoral
The princess’s pectoral, in miniature
From €145
Alexandria Serpent
A coiled snake bracelet from Cleopatra’s Egypt
From €170
Varna Disc
From the oldest gold treasure in Europe
From €95
Inside every box
A provenance card, not a souvenir story.
Each piece ships with a card that states what it is based on, where that object was found, and whether ours is a reproduction, an interpretation or a free inspiration. We never write “worn by Cleopatra” without proof.
Read the methodFive ways into the past
Lusitania
Gold of the castros. Torcs, earrings and brooches of the Iron Age north-west, redrawn in silver.
IIRoyal Jewels
Princesses, queens and an empress: jewels that real royal women owned or wore, from the Nile to Byzantium.
IIIPtolemaic Egypt
Alexandria after Alexander: Greek goldsmithing meets Egyptian symbols.
IVPrehistory
Some of the oldest worked gold ever found, and the shells that travelled with it across Europe.
VNavigators
Instruments that found the way across the Atlantic, made small enough to wear.
Designed by Joana Castro Teixeira
An archaeologist at the drawing table.
Relica starts in the field, not in a mood board. Each design begins as a measured drawing of a real object, the same way finds are recorded on a dig, and only then becomes jewellery.
Meet the archaeologist