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Early Bronze Age bone pin
Early Bronze Age bone ring-headed pin
The pin is shaped to a sharp point and carefully polished on all surfaces. The expanded head has a central circular perforation. Similar pins have been found with burials in southern England and seem to have been used throughout the Early Bronze Age.
Mae’r pin wedi’i siapio i greu blaen miniog ac mae ei arwynebau i gyd wedi’u sgleinio’n ofalus. Mae twll cylchog yng nghanol y pen sydd wedi’i ehangu. Mae pinnau tebyg wedi cael eu darganfod gyda chladdedigaethau yn ne Lloegr ac mae’n ymddangos eu bod wedi cael eu defnyddio ar hyd yr Oes Efydd Gynnar.
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Site Name: Maes-hwyaid Farm, Welsh St. Donats
Notes: It was buried, along with a flint knife (69.121/3), with the cremated remains of an adult aged 46+years inside an undecorated Collared Urn (69.121/1). Cafodd ei gladdu, ynghyd â chyllell fflint (69.121/3), gyda gweddillion wedi’u hamlosgi oedolyn 46+ oed y tu mewn i Wrn Colerog (69.121/1). From a primary burial in a round barrow, 400 yards south-west of the farm. This is a different round barrow to the one excavated in 1973-74, the finds from which are under accession number 75.36H. The farm has also been referred to as Maes-y-ward.