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Iron Age ceramic crucible
Fragment of a crucible. Probably of the shallow triangular form similar to those from Glastonbury Lake Village (Bulleid and Grey 1917, 300-309), Gussage All Saints (Wainwright 1979, 130-132) and Collfryn (Britnell 1989, 126-7) dating to the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. Heavily vitrified with a coating of copper alloy surviving on the internal surface.
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Site Name: Merthyr Mawr Warren, Bridgend
Notes: Exact site not known, but possibly the Early Iron Age settlement site about 1000m WSW of Candleston Castle