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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Ox-head escutcheon, with flat back, in which are three contiguous hollows to help fastening by solder to the top-most binding hoop of a wooden stave-bucket. The head has short, forward-curving horns and horizontally projecting ears, all treated in naturalistic style; the eyes are lentoid and oblique with eyelids as well as eyeball shown; the muzzle is widely splayed, with minute pits to represent the nostrils and a double vertical groove at the centre. On the forehead, level with the horns, is a horizontally oblong tablet with four horizontal rows of pittings.
Site Name: Dinorben, Parc-y-meirch
Notes: Found at a depth of 18 inches on the surface of the road leading into the interior of the fort from the main south-east entrance (area XXV)
