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Bronze Age gold torque, and Irish arrowheads
The drawing shows a gold bar torc with bent terminals, distorted from its true shape, from Harlech; and three arrowheads from Ireland, one barbed, and two flakes.
Creator
- Mostyn, Thomas
- Pennant
Subject
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
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Rights
- Mostyn, Thomas|Pennant
Temporal
- Bronze Age
Places
- Europe
- Gwynedd
- Harlech
- Merioneth
- Northern Ireland : Possibly
- Republic of Ireland : Possibly
- United Kingdom
- Wales
- …
- United Kingdom
- Harlech
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Primeval Antiquities
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/primeval_antiquities/pa37-2
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- William Camden, Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands 4th ed. 2 vols. (London, 1772), 2: 48. 'In the year 1692, an ancient gold torques was dug up in a garden near this castle of Harlech; it is a wreathed bar of gold (or rather, perhaps, three or four rods jointly twisted) about four feet long...'
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-18T10:20:15.458Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z