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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
This is a straight, slender bar of gold, with a rounded cross-section and rounded ends. One face is pitted. This is an example of a finger ingot, a recognised Bronze Age form of smelted bar and source of gold metal, from which finished gold artefacts could be worked.
Project Title: Gold in Britain’s auriferous regions, 2450-800 BC: towards a coherent Research Framework and Strategy. Status: Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Network Grant funded project (2018-2019)
Site Name: Ystradowen, Penllyn
Notes: Single find. This ingot was found while metal-detecting.
