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Iron Age iron sword
With portions of scabbard, including iron loop, attached. Folded up, probably in antiquity, for ritual purposes.
Iron sword and scabbard fragments. The sword was deliberately bent inside its scabbard and decommissioned before it was offered into the water at Llyn Cerrig Bach. 200 BCE-100 CE.
WA_SC 11.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
44.294/1
Find Information
Site Name: Llyn Cerrig Bach, Cae Ifan Farm
Collection Method: chance find
Notes: Objects disturbed by the construction of an airfield at RAF Station Valley
Measurements
length / mm:687
width / mm:38
weight / g:380.6
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