Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Late Iron Age / Roman copper alloy ornamental disc
Ornamental disc consisting of a larger backing plate (/13) with marginal radial ribbing and edge moulding and a smaller open-work upper disc (/14) originally fastened to the backing plate by central and marginal rivet. The openwork pattern consists of a three-limbed whirligig with streamers, defined by triquetral, circular, leaf- and comma-shaped openings with small raised leaves on the adjoining surfaces and three narrow curving bands of rolled-graver hatching, while an engraved trellis band follows the edge of the disc.
Disg addurnol, 50-80 OC, gydag addurniad Celtaidd.
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Tal-y-llyn, Gwynedd
Nodiadau: found half-buried in a cavity under a large boulder between a footpath and the west side of the ravine of the Nant Cader at 800 feet above O.D. on the slopes of Cadair Idris near Tal-y-llyn.