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Iron Age iron sword
Bent and twisted into a curve. The blade has a rounded tip.
Iron sword, 150 BCE-50 CE.
Many complete iron swords and spearheads were offered into the lake at Llyn Cerrig Bach. Some were deliberately bent and rendered useless before entering the waters.
Similar accumulations of weapons have been found at Iron Age religious sanctuary sites in Gaul (France). Examples of throwing or offering weapons from timber platforms into water have been discovered in La Tène in Switzerland, Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire and in Lincolnshire.
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Site Name: Llyn Cerrig Bach, Cae Ifan Farm
Notes: Objects disturbed by the construction of an airfield at RAF Station Valley. From the boggy margin of Llyn Cerrig Bach, as per the items under 44.32
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