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Iron Age / Roman copper alloy ingot
Roughly chisel shaped thin copper alloy billet.
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.
WA_SC 3.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
04.154
Find Information
Site Name: Nant-y-cafn, Seven Sisters
Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1875
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.
Acquisition
Donation, 1904
Measurements
length / mm:62.5
width / mm:27.0
thickness / mm:2.5
weight / g:12.0
Material
copper alloy
Techniques
cast
Location
In store
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