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Roman copper alloy terret
Originally consisted of a pair of horns (one now missing) with knob terminals attached to a slightly convex plate with scalloped edges, and rectangular loop attached to underside.
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.
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Site Name: Nant-y-cafn, Seven Sisters
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.
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