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Iron Age / Roman copper alloy ingot
Part of a flat, rectangular ingot, with a small piece detached from it by the finder (04.155/2). At the opposite end are chisel marks indicating that a piece was cut off from here in antiquity.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
04.155/1
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.
Acquisition
donation, 1904
Measurements
length / mm:88.5
width / mm:71.0
thickness / mm:10.0
weight / g:395.1
weight / g:435.4 (with /2)
Techniques
Cast
Material
Brass
Location
Metalwork and Art
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