Iron Age / Roman copper alloy terret
Terret with a pair of collars flanking the basal strip and three conical bosses. Decorated with reserved bronze quatrefoils and opaque red and white enamel.
Part of a hoard, dating to the period 50-75 CE. It was buried at a time when the Silures, the native tribe of south-east Wales, were fighting a guerilla war against the Romans. The hoard consists of a mixture of both native and Roman military objects.
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© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Find Information
Site Name:
Nant-y-cafn, Seven Sisters
Collection Method: chance 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 cordinates statedabove therefore indicate only the general area ofthe findspot. Buried in the middle of the first century AD during the Roman conquest of Wales.
Acquisition
Donation, 1904
Measurements
length / mm:75.5
width / mm:64.0
Location
St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Roman Objects
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