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Iron Age / Roman copper alloy handle
Two joining fragments of a bronze fish-tail shaped patera handle. The upper surface has a raised border decorated withoblique incised lines framing a pattern of two closed palmettes opposed at the points. The surface of the recessed spaces show may tool marks and were probably holoowed out rather than cast. There is no trace of inlay.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
56.444/7
Find Information
Site Name: Dinorben, Parc-y-meirch
Grid Reference: SH 968 757
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1956
Notes: from the excavations at the northern end of Parc-y-meirch
Measurements
length / mm:48.7
maximum width / mm:42.7
width / mm
thickness / mm:2.1
weight / g:15.2
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