Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Iron Age / Roman copper alloy ornamental disc
Ornamental disc consisting of a larger backing plate (/11) with marginal radial ribbing and edge moulding and a smaller open-work upper disc (/12) originally fastened to the backing plate by central and marginal rivets. This composite ornamental disc is more complete than the other examples under 63.419/13-18, with a rivet still holding the two components together. 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.
Ornamental disc, 50-80 CE, decorated in the Celtic art style.
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Site Name: Tal-y-llyn, Gwynedd
Notes: 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.