Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Late Iron Age iron object
Copper alloy plated iron ring, slightly distorted, and circular-sectioned. One end is damaged and incomplete the other is finished with a flat surface suggesting that the ring was originally penannular or had a butt join. Traces of the copper alloy plating are visible on the flat surface of the undamaged end of the ring suggesting that if the ring was originally closed then it was not hammer welded but butt-jointed and brazed in the plating process. Possibly a central-link from a three-link bridle-bit on analogy with the example on No.10.
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Llyn Cerrig Bach, Cae Ifan Farm
Nodiadau: Found during the construction of an airfield at RAF Station Valley. Some certainly, the rest probably, from a wet meadow which formed the margin of Llyn Cerrig Bach. The exact depth below the grassy surface at which the objects were deposited is not known. The bog was excavated to a maximum depth of 20 feet. A few objects were found on the spot, after the peaty deposit had been won from the boggy margin of the lake. The rest, with the exception of 44.32/58, were found on that portion of the adjacent aerodrome on which the peat from this site had been spread. Animal bones were associated with the deposit and many metal objects were stained with vivianite.