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Late Iron Age wooden draught pole
Front portion of a draught-pole of a chariot or cart, reinforced to take the pull of the yoke, with four elongated oval plates of iron on each face, slightly curved and tied together at ends and centre with iron rivets which passed through the pole. Lateral and vertical rivets cross at the centre and ends very close to each other. There is a rectangular opening in the upper, most perfect, plate, and the wood below showed the mark of this thick iron pin for which this hole was cut.
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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.