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Early Bronze Age faience bead
Early Bronze Age faience bead
One of two faience beads found with a cremation burial in a stone cist under a large burial mound. Both beads are ‘segmented’ types and are made from faience - a blue, glass-like material made by firing a mixture of sand, water, plant ash and copper. The pale, powdery surfaces suggest that they were burnt with the body on the funeral pyre. They may have been part of a necklace that included other beads perhaps made from amber, gold, jet or bone that either did not survive the flames or weren’t picked up by the finders.
Un o ddau lain faience a ddarganfuwyd gyda chorfflosgiad mewn cist garreg o dan domen gladdu fawr. Mae’r ddau lain wedi’u ‘segmentu’ ac wedi’u gwneud o faience – deunydd glas tebyg i wydr a wnaed trwy danio cymysgedd o dywod, dŵr, lludw pren a chopr. Mae’r arwynebau golau, powdraidd yn awgrymu eu bod wedi cael eu llosgi gyda’r corff ar y goelcerth angladdol. Efallai y buont yn rhan o fwclis a oedd yn cynnwys gleiniau eraill a wnaed o ambr, aur, muchudd neu asgwrn nad oeddent wedi goroesi’r fflamau neu nad oedd y darganfyddwyr wedi sylwi arnynt.
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Site Name: Ystrad-fawr Farm, LLangwm
Notes: The cist contained two pots (of a type known as food vessel urns) and the cremated remains of a young person. These bones were sent to Sir Arthur Keith at the Royal College of Surgeons sometime after discovery and were not returned to the museum. They were probably destroyed when the college was bombed during the Second World War. Roedd y gist yn cynnwys dau bot (yrnau llestri bwyd) a gweddillion person ifanc a gafodd ei amlosgi. Anfonwyd yr esgyrn hyn at Syr Arthur Keith yng Ngholeg Brenhinol y Llawfeddygon rywbryd ar ôl iddynt gael eu darganfod ac ni chawsant eu dychwelyd i’r amgueddfa. Mae’n debygol y cawsant eu dinistrio pan gafodd y coleg ei fomio yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd.