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Bronze Age bone dagger pommel
Early Bronze Age bone dagger pommel
Small, ovoid shaped pommel with expanded top that has been burnt on the funeral pyre. It has a vertical rectangular opening for the dagger tang and a pair of small holes for fastening rivets. No trace of the bronze blade was found in the burial suggesting that the dagger was taken apart before burial.
Cnepyn dagr bach wyffurf â phen wedi’i ehangu sydd wedi cael ei losgi ar goelcerth angladdol. Mae ganddo agoriad petryalog fertigol ar gyfer colsaid y dagr a phâr o dyllau bach ar gyfer rhybedion cysylltu. Ni ddaethpwyd o hyd i unrhyw arwydd o’r llafn efydd yn y gladdfa, sy’n awgrymu bod y dagr wedi cael ei dynnu’n rhydd cyn claddu.
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Site Name: Penboncyn cottage, Bwlch-y-rhiw
Notes: Found with a cremated burial in a rough stone cist while ploughing in a field opposite above. It was found amongst the cremated remains of an older adult buried inside a Collared Urn. A small bronze awl was also found with the burial, which was placed within a small stone-lined cist discovered during ploughing. Daethpwyd o hyd iddo ymhlith gweddillion wedi’u hamlosgi oedolyn hŷn a gladdwyd y tu mewn i Wrn Colerog. Daethpwyd o hyd i fynawyd efydd bach yn y gladdfa hefyd, a osodwyd o fewn cist fach wedi’i leinio â cherrig y daethpwyd o hyd iddi wrth droi’r tir.
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