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Iron Age / Roman copper alloy terret
Terret with a pair of collars flanking the basal strip and three conical bosses. Decorated with reserved bronze quatrefoils and opaque red and white enamel.
Part of a hoard, dating to the period 50-75 CE. It was buried at a time when the Silures, the native tribe of south-east Wales, were fighting a guerilla war against the Romans. The hoard consists of a mixture of both native and Roman military objects.
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Site Name: Nant-y-cafn, Seven Sisters
Notes: Found in the bed of a small mountain stream, a tributary of Nant-y-cafn, somewhere within an 80m length of the stream; the cordinates statedabove therefore indicate only the general area ofthe findspot. Buried in the middle of the first century AD during the Roman conquest of Wales.