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Iron Age copper alloy pendant hook
Complete pendant-hook, which originally consisted of a U-shaped triangular-sectioned bar with flat, expanded semi-circular ends decorated with inlaid patterns of opaque red enamel.Originally broken in two but now repaired. Possibly from either mail armour or part of a harness fitting. The end decoration consists of a pair of semi-circles side by side, reserved against a pelta, a pair of spots and a sub-triangular patch of red enamel. Rectangular loop on the reverse.
Part of a hoard, dating to the period 50-75 CE. It was buried at a time when the Silures, the native tribe of south-east Wales, were fighting a guerilla war against the Romans. The hoard consists of a mixture of both native and Roman military objects.
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Site Name: Nant-y-cafn, Seven Sisters
Notes: Found in the bed of a small mountain stream, a tributary of Nant-y-cafn, somewhere within an 80m length of the stream; the coordinates stated above therefore indicate only the general area of the findspot. Buried in the middle of the first century AD during the Roman conquest of Wales.