Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Fire bar

A section of a fire bar (approximately half is missing) stamped on the bottom ‘South Dorothea’. South Dorothea quarry was situated close to the large Dorothea Quarry and was worked between 1867 and 1921 (when it was incorporated into Dorothea Quarry).

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2015.71/4

Historical Associations

Association Type: Slate quarries
Place: South Dorothea slate quarry
Association Type: Place name
Place: Dyffryn Nantlle

Acquisition

donation, 6/10/2015

Measurements

Length (mm): 320
Width (mm): 45
Height (mm): 50
Weight (kg): 1.5

Material

Metal
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