Casgliadau Arlein

Complete setting. A huntsman or Bonus Eventus stands facing forward and left. He is clothed in a tunic, wears boots and a wreath or fillet on his head. His right hand holds the end of a crook or lagobolon, which balances over that shoulder. From one end of the crook hangs a scale-pan, from the other a dead hare. His right hand falls at his side, and holds two ears of corn. A dog barks at his feet. Only slightly worn; a circular hole above the scale-pan is probably a natural flaw.

Cafwyd hyd i’r 88 gem engrafedig hyn ym 1979, y mwyafrif ohonynt yn y gwaddodd a oed yn llenwi traen mawr o dan neuadd oer Baddondai’r Gaer. Byddai’r gemau hyn yn wreiddiol wedi’u gosod mewn modrwyan bys, a chaent eu defnyddio fel seliau neu swynoglyddion I warchod eu perchenogion. Fe’u gwnaed gan grefftwyn hynod o grefftus a weithiai ar raddfa fechen iawn heb gymorth chwyddwydr. Mae’r gemau wedi’u hengrafu ag amrywiaeth eang o dduwiau, peronlidau a symbolau.