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Iron Age / Roman copper alloy ring
Copper alloy ring with circular section.
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.
WA_SC 3.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
04.144
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.
Measurements
weight / g:36.1
diameter / mm:64 - 66
thickness / mm:4.8 - 6
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