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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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Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
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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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Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead & Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
  • Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
  • Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule
  • Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead & Late Bronze Age bronze ferrule