Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Late Bronze Age copper cake

Copper alloy cake fragment with angular breaks, rough and uneven top surface. The fragment appeas to have been snapped off larger cake in antiquity. The underside is convex in profile yet far more even the top surface. The fragment contains vesicles, one of which penetrates from top to base. Green patina.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

2003.24H/41

Find Information

Site Name: St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan

Collection Method: metal detector
Date: 2003

Notes: Found within a field under pasture

Measurements

length / mm:46.2
width / mm:33.8
thickness / mm:12.0
weight / g:45.8
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