Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Copper ingot
Shaped copper ingot, oxidised to a purple colour. Recovered from wreck of S.S. BENAMAIN, outward bound from Swansea for Treport, north east France with 'general cargo', struck rocks off Lundy in fog and was wrecked at Oxwich Bay, Gower on 29 March 1890, with no loss of life. Cargo was mainly cathodes (about 180 tons) with a smaller cargo of ingots (about 20 tons). Ingot is marked "V & S" which stands for Vivian & Sons, Swansea's largest firm of smelters.
S.S. BENAMAIN. Iron steamship. Wrecked at Oxwich Bay, Gower on 29 March 1890.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
1994.170/1
Creation/Production
Vivian & Sons
Date: 1890 (circa)
Acquisition
Purchase, 17/10/1994
Measurements
Length
(mm): 295
Width
(mm): 70
Height
(mm): 70
Weight
(kg): 6.8
Material
copper
Location
In store
Classification
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