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With roll mouldings, each ornamented with a double moulding and marginal knurling. The roll mouldings are damaged.
Bronze nave hoop from a chariot wheel, 200 BCE-100 CE.
Parts of many chariots were offered into the lake at Llyn Cerrig Bach. They included iron tyres, bronze fittings and bridle-bits. Chariots were the vehicles of the Iron Age elite. They were drawn by pairs of highly-trained ponies. Warriors used them skilfully in battle.
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Site Name: Llyn Cerrig Bach, Cae Ifan Farm
Notes: 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.
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