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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
A fragment of metalworking mould.
This fragment has the partial impression of a straight 'arm' with quadrant-shaped coss-section and central 'boss'. Some of the original outer edge survives.
The straight arm terminating in a boss are reminiscent of the bossed cross arms from a female grave 511 dating to the first half of the tenth century, Birka, Sweden (Wamers 1985, cat. no. 146, Taf. 18, no. 2). These high fragmented remains are challenging to interpret, though it is possible that there may be a distant connection to the discs with radiating arms on some disc-headed pins from Ireland, or the rings with openwork radii on some brooch-pins (Armstrong 1922, pl xiii, fig 3; plate XIV, fig. 1).
The fabric is a light grey reduced core and inner surface and an orange-brown exterior.
Canoloesol Cynnar, dernyn mowld ceramig i gweithio copr
Site Name: St. Patrick's Chapel, Whitesands Bay
Notes: Excavations were conducted in May 2014 and May 2015
