Bronze Age Gold from Wales

This is a straight, slender bar of gold, with a rounded cross-section and rounded ends. One face is pitted. This is an example of a finger ingot, a recognised Bronze Age form of smelted bar and source of gold metal, from which finished gold artefacts could be worked.

Dyma far aur syth, main, ac iddo drawstoriad crwn a phennau crwn. Mae mân-dyllau ar un wyneb. Mae’n enghraifft o ingot bys, sy’n ffurf gydnabyddedig o far wedi’i fwyndoddi o’r Oes Efydd. Roedd yn cael ei ddefnyddio i wneud eitemau aur.