Collections Online
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Advanced Search
Iron Age / Roman copper alloy casting jet
Roughly conical in shape and hollow.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
04.153
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:28.0
width / mm:31.5
thickness / mm:30.0
weight / g:47.8
Material
copper alloy
Techniques
cast
Location
In store
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.