Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Early Medieval bone object
Segment from a tusk of a boar, perforated and fixed with an iron nail to some larger object as an ornament. Dr Cornwall suggests that the large size of the tusk suggests that it comes from a wild boar. I have no parallels for this interesting ornament.
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Nodiadau: Cut XV, Layer 5B. Context A? A: Powdery soil, usually light in colour with some stone, much bone, charcoal flecking.