Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Middle / Late Bronze Age gold spiral ring

This is a thick, oval-sectioned wire that has been coiled three times to produce a spiral ring with simple, unelaborated terminals. The style of this object is not closely datable, but it is considered to conform to similar gold objects dating to the Middle and Late Bronze Age. It may also date to the Late Iron Age.

Gwifren drwchus ac iddi drychiad hirgrwn yw hon. Cafodd ei thorchi dair gwaith i roi modrwy droellog â therfynellau syml, diaddurn. Nid yw’n hawdd rhoi dyddiad manwl i arddull yr eitem hon, ond cyfrifir ei bod yn cyfateb i eitemau aur tebyg o’r Oes Efydd Ganol a Diweddar. Gallai berthyn i’r Oes Haearn Ddiweddar hefyd.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

59.557

Find Information

Site Name: Beatrice Road, Whitchurch

Collection Method: Surface find

Notes: Single find. The ring was found while digging in the garden in Whitchurch, Cardiff. The ring was approximately two feet deep in apparently undisturbed alluvium (known colloquially as “bungem”).

Acquisition

purchase, 29/12/1959

Measurements

diameter (mm): 19.0 (coils)
maximum thickness (mm): 2.0 (wire)
Weight (g): 13.74

Material

Gold
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