Monday, February 27, 2012

Bronze Age hoard declared treasure


A "significant discovery" of a Bronze Age artefacts in Carmarthenshire have been recorded as treasure. 


The museum says the hoard shows the type of weapons and dress items worn nearly 3,000 years ago [Credit: NNC]
The hoard of 13 bronze items found in a field at St Ishmael, near Kidwelly, last June, included a bracelet, fragments of a spearhead and an axe. 


The artefacts are thought to have been buried around 1000 to 800 BC, and were declared treasure by the Carmarthenshire coroner on Friday.

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