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Bronze Age / Iron Age Hoard, Llyn Fawr

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00023m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Rhigos
Unitary authority : Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
NGR : SN91780343
Site Type (preferred type first) : Bronze Age FINDSPOT
Status : SSSI

Summary :
Late Bronze-early Iron Age bronze hoard found about 2 ft deep in peat during the draining of Llyn Fawr 1911.

Description :
Late Bronze-early Iron Age bronze hoard found about 2 ft deep in peat during the draining of Llyn Fawr 1911.

Sources :
Wheeler R.E.M. , 1921 , Some problems of Prehistoric chronology , Archaeologia Cambrensis : 76 : 1-18
Wheeler R.E.M. , 1922 , Hoards of the Bronze Age from Wales , The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies : I pt.II : 189-191
01/MM Record Card/OS//1955/SN 90 SW 8/;
02/PM Desc Text//Wheeler&Crawford/REM&OGS/1920-21/Arch Vol.71p133-7;
07/MM Record Card/OS//1980/SN 90 SW 8/;
05/PM Mention//Brown R.L/1979/Town Cymer Afan Hist Soc/Vol.2;
06/PM Desc Text/Antiquity/Alcock L//Vol.35 p.149-159/;
03/PM Desc Text//Fox & Hyde/Sir C & HA/1932/Arch in Eng&Wales p.138;
04/PM Desc Text//Fox C/1936/BBCS/8 Pt.3 p.273-4;
08/PM List//NCC/1979/Stst Sites Nat Parks 1949/Mid Glam 43,28,30

Events :
E006188 : Rhigos Mountain and Tower Colliery, Rhondda Cynon Taf (year : 2019)

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 405461 http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/405461/

Compiled date : 01-01-1977


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