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Roman copper alloy harness junction loop
The front of both the junction loop and the ring are decorated with insets, some still filled with a black alloy, probably niello. The empty insets are all less than one millimetre deep and slope up to the surface at their ends. The junction loop has a single rivet behind its rectangular terminal for securing it to the strap; there is no sign of any other rivet. Wear facets on the inside of the ring indicate that three junction loops were originally attached to it.
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 coordinates stated above therefore indicate only the general area of the findspot. Buried in the middle of the first century AD during the Roman conquest of Wales.