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
Archeoleg a Nwmismateg
Rhif yr Eitem
62.203/F.12
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Cyfeirnod Grid: ST 148 722
Dull Casglu: excavation
Dyddiad: 1954-1958
Nodiadau: Cut XV, Layer 5B. Context A? A: Powdery soil, usually light in colour with some stone, much bone, charcoal flecking.
Derbyniad
Donation, 14/6/1962
Mesuriadau
length / mm:21
width / mm:19
thickness / mm:11
length / mm:22 (peg)
Deunydd
tusk
iron
Techneg
carved
cut
drilled
Lleoliad
In store
Categorïau
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