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Roman iron sickle
With square-sectioned tang and assymetrical curving blade
Roman iron sickle, 260-355 CE. Found at Dinorben hillfort, north Wales.
SC5.2
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
56.444/166
Find Information
Site Name: Dinorben, Parc-y-meirch
Grid Reference: SH 968 757
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1956
Notes: found at a depth of 1 foot in the Romano-British layer overlying hut floor 3, behind the north-east rampart, in area SVIIc
Acquisition
donation, 25/10/1956
Measurements
length / mm:228
maximum width / mm:85
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:8
thickness / mm
weight / g:83.7
Material
Iron
Location
St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Iron Tools
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