Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age sword scabbard chape
Ogival, with lozengic section, central perforation, median ribs and flattened edges. Disc-shaped base cast in one piece with the scabbard. Near complete.
Leaded bronze scabbard fitting, 1050-890 BCE.
This scabbard fitting is 3,000 years old. It shows the finest casting techniques of its time. For the first time, lead was added to the bronze alloy so that the molten metal flowed more easily. This allowed the bronzesmiths to make tongue-shaped scabbard fittings like this. It was discovered in Guilsfield near Welshpool in 1862 and was part of a Late Bronze Age weapon hoard of over 120 objects.
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Site Name: Crowther's Camp, Guilsfield
Notes: Found during the digging of a field drain, packed tight as though originally deposited in a perishable container, on the south-east side of Rhuallt, 100m from Crowther's Camp, an Early Iron Age hillfort, near Guilsfield.
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