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Late Bronze Age harness button (electrotype)
Similar to the original harness buttons under 40.368/87-91. Circular, ornamented with four concentric embossed rings around a central pellet on the flat upper surface, with a single loop on the underside.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
64.100/11
Find Information
Site Name: Dinorben, Parc-y-meirch
Notes: the original was found "before 1868" with human(?) bones in debris at the foot of a crag outside the north-west corner of the hillfort. It is now in St. Asaph Cathedral Museum
Acquisition
Purchase, 18/3/1964
Measurements
diameter / mm:17.5
thickness / mm:1.0 (of button)
thickness / mm:7.5 (including loop)
weight / g:3.0
Material
electrotype
Location
In store
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