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Life in Anglesey 2000 years ago*. An Early Iron Age Discovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Extract

A Collection consisting of some 90 objects of bronze and iron which touches life and art in Celtic antiquity at more points than any deposit hitherto found in Wales was discovered in 1943 a few miles from Holyhead, Anglesey. It has now become the property of the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff, the principal donor being Mr Evan R. Hughes, of Holyhead.

The collection includes weapons—fragmentary swords and daggers and spears; indestructible elements of vehicles—iron tyres, nave-hoops, bollard and linch-pins; and of harness—terrets, loop and numerous bridle-bits; things of social and economic interest—gang-chains for captives, currency bars, sickle, and fragmentary cauldron (or waterclock); of ceremonial interest—the central portion of a bronze trumpet, a wand of ash-wood decorated with spiral bronze ribbon; personalia—the bronze mounts of a wooden casket. All the objects were found in peat; many were deeply stained with vivianite, being associated with animal bones—of horse, ox, pig, sheep and dog.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1944

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Footnotes

*

By permission of Sir Cyril Fox and Editor of The Times we are able to reprint this article, published 7 March, on the great discovery of Early Iron Age objects in Anglesey. In intimating that there would be no objection on the part of the Council of the National Museum of Wales, Sir Cyril asks that it should be known that a monograph on the deposit is in preparation and will be published by the Museum.

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* The Editor of THE TIMES also gave permission for the Editorial note.