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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Stolen in 1988
Site Name: Penbryn, Ceredigion
Notes: Twice published in mid C19 as a local (Penbryn) find, but not connected then to the 'Roman burial' by the Corbalengus stone. Barnwell, in his 'spoons' paper, adds that ‘at no great distance also [to the hill-fort called Castell Nadolig, Penbryn], and in the same parish, was found the aureus of Titus, now in the possession of our local secretary, R D Jenkins, Esq., of Cardigan’, so that there are signs that the ‘1904’ account by Rev Davies represents more than a little rationalisation of earlier separate stories and different actors. In notes of the Cambrians’ Cardigan 1859 meeting, there appears both a similar form of words to Barnwell’s (‘in the same parish, namely that of Penbryn, and at no great distance from [the Corbalengus] stone, was lately discovered an aureus of Titus, now in the possession of Mr R D Jenkins, of The Priory, Cardigan’: CAA 1859, 328) and also – in a separate catalogue of the temporary museum created for the meeting – ‘Aureus of Titus, found at Penbryn, near Cardigan – Rev. John Hughes, Penbryn’ (op cit, 350). Barnwell, E L 1862 ‘Bronze Articles Supposed to be Spoons’, Archaeol Cambrensis 3ser 31 (1862), 208-19 Cambrian Archaeological Association 1859 ‘Cardigan Meeting – Report’, Archaeol Cambrensis 3ser 20 (1859), 320-52
