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Iron Age iron currency bar
Spit-shaped, with a folded and closed socket terminal. Bent approximately mid-way along its length, and the tip is also broken.
Iron currency bar, 300-50 BCE. During the Middle Iron Age, bars were made and exchanged as trade iron. Their shaping with wings, sockets and folds demonstrated the qualities of the iron.
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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.
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