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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Copper alloy sword guard with engraved zoomorphic design.
Brass and silver sword guard decorated in the Viking art-style, about 1100-1125 CE. It represents an expensive top of the range weapon at the end of the Viking age.
WA_SC 14.2
Site Name: Smalls Reef, Pembrokeshire Coast
Notes: found underwater to the south of the Smalls lighthouse c. 16 miles west of above
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