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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
A wedge shaped tool or fragment with a perforation at the wide end. The main objects is a large amorphous lump of iron corrosion material. At one end there is a narrow point sticking out from the main mass, the point has broken away revealing a hollow rectangular section. The end of the point is slightly bent.
X-raying has revealed the shape of the object within the corrosion. The point widens into a wedge shaped object, that the wide end there is a round perforated hole and a flat terminal. It's unclear whether the object is hollow was the way along, nor if the terminal is the object's original end or a break.
It may be the tang handle of a larger object, like a knife with the perforation forming an attachment point for a hilt
Recovered from a layer of stone tumble post-dating the use of Building B.
Site Name: Porth y Rhaw, Solva
Notes: Excavations undertaken during the summers of 2019, 2021 and 2022 at Porth-y-Rhaw coastal promontory fort, Solva, Pembrokeshire (SAM PE-273), revealing occupation and finds of Iron Age and Romano-British date. The project was funded by Cadw, the Nineveh Charitable Trust, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority and The National Trust. The entire archive for this excavation was created and stored in digital format and is not held by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales.
