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Iron Age / Roman copper alloy bridle bit ring
Terminal ring for a three-link bridle-bit with rings and side-links cast in one piece. The central ornament is within a circle and is enhanced by sunken cellular panels, in some of which traces of opaque red enamel remain.
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.