Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Middle Bronze Age gold flange-twisted bar torc
Dyma dorch fawr gron. Cafodd y bar aur ei forthwylio’n ‘gantelau’ ac yna’i droelli glocwedd i greu’r ffurf ‘cantelau tro’. Mae terfynellau’r bar yn blaen ac iddynt drychiad crwn. Maent yn ymledu ychydig wrth gyrraedd pen amgrwn gan greu ffurf côn. Cafodd y rhain eu sodro ar y bar ac maent yn bachu ei gilydd, gan gwblhau cylch y dorch.
Project Title: Gold in Britain’s auriferous regions, 2450-800 BC: towards a coherent Research Framework and Strategy. Status: Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Network Grant funded project (2018-2019)
LI1.4
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Central Wales, Wales
Nodiadau: Associated find. The torc was found with a Middle Bronze Age palstave in a cellar in Aberystwth in the mid-1960’s. It is believed that the two were found while burying dead livestock, but the finder had died fifteen years previous so confirmation of the association is not possible.