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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Cast copper alloy pommel and iron tang. The pommel design consists of three curves arranged to form a pelta shape, or curve sided triangle, consisting of an outer convex curve and two smaller concave curves which meet in a central point set below the outer edges of the curve. The sides are flat, 2.5mm thick, and splay out from the top (width 10mm-15mm). The upper part of a deliberately broken, rectangular-sectioned iron tang (length 59mm) which tapers towards its tip, is slotted through the top of the pommel where it has been worked flush with the surface of the copper alloy.
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Site Name: Llyn Cerrig Bach, Cae Ifan Farm
Notes: Found during the construction of an airfield at RAF Station Valley. Some certainly, the rest probably, from a wet meadow which formed the margin of Llyn Cerrig Bach. The exact depth below the grassy surface at which the objects were deposited is not known. The bog was excavated to a maximum depth of 20 feet. A few objects were found on the spot, after the peaty deposit had been won from the boggy margin of the lake. The rest, with the exception of 44.32/58, were found on that portion of the adjacent aerodrome on which the peat from this site had been spread. Animal bones were associated with the deposit and many metal objects were stained with vivianite.
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