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Bronze Age amber bead
Bronze Age amber bead
Originally shiny and polished, the surface has degraded over time. It is thicker on one side than the other suggesting that it might originally have been part of graduated necklace of several other beads. The perforation is hour-glass shaped showing that the hole was drilled from both sides.
Roedd yn sgleiniog a chaboledig yn wreiddiol, ond mae’r arwyneb wedi diraddio dros amser. Mae’n fwy trwchus ar un ochr na’r llall, sy’n awgrymu efallai y bu’n rhan o fwclis a oedd yn cynnwys nifer o leiniau eraill o wahanol feintiau yn wreiddiol. Mae’r twll siâp awrwydr yn dangos bod y twll wedi cael ei ddrilio o’r ddwy ochr.
Amber has unusual qualities which may have seemed magical. It is golden and translucent, light and warm to the touch and will produce static electricity when it is rubbed! Amber necklaces are not commonly found with burials in Wales but evidence from England suggests they may have been buried in graves throughout the Early Bronze Age.
Mae gan ambr nodweddion anarferol a allai fod wedi ymddangos yn hudol. Mae’n euraid ac yn dryloyw, yn ysgafn ac yn gynnes i gyffwrdd ag ef, a bydd yn cynhyrchu trydan statig pan gaiff ei rwbio! Nid yw’n gyffredin dod o hyd i fwclis ambr mewn claddedigaethau yng Nghymru, ond mae tystiolaeth o Loegr yn awgrymu y gallent fod wedi cael eu claddu mewn beddau ar hyd yr Oes Efydd Gynnar.
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Site Name: St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan
Notes: Amber bead found with a skeleton uncovered during the building of the Vale of Glamorgan railway at St Athan around 1885. Little is known about the discovery. No description of the burial survives, and it is not known what happened to the bones after they were disturbed. Glain ambr a ddarganfuwyd gyda sgerbwd a ddaeth i’r amlwg wrth adeiladu rheilffordd Bro Morgannwg yn Sain Tathan tua 1885. Nid oes disgrifiad o’r gladdedigaeth wedi goroesi, ac nid ydym yn gwybod beth ddigwyddodd i’r esgyrn ar ôl iddynt gael eu tarfu.