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Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
Complete, with two rivet-holes approximately half-way from the centre to the mouth; slightly trunconic in form, with slightly expanded solid butt.
Leaded bronze sword mount, 1050-890 BCE. Found at Crowther’s Camp hillfort, Guilsfield, mid-Wales.
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Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/29
Find Information
Site Name: Crowther's Camp, Guilsfield
Date: 1862
Notes: Found during the digging of a field drain, packed tight as though originally deposited in a perishable container, on the south-east side of Rhuallt, 100m from Crowther's Camp, an Early Iron Age hillfort, near Guilsfield.
Measurements
maximum length / mm:392.0
maximum diameter / mm:18.0
Material
copper alloy
Location
St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Bronze Age Weapons
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