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Iron Age / Roman copper alloy ingot
Part of a flat, rectangular ingot. At the opposite end are chisel marks indicating that a piece was cut off from here in antiquity. Joins to the larger part of the ingot 04.155/1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
04.155/2
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.
Measurements
length / mm:65
width / mm:10
weight / g:435.4 (with /1)
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