[{"id": 141715, "created": "2020-06-28T07:54:34.078099", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84838, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-28T08:08:49.587673", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SO 117;101", "Site": "WALES;GWENT;[BLAENAU GWENT];PRINCETOWN", "CollHist": "National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 70 . 32H. 1-3\r\nOn loan from H.M. & W. Arnold 1970\r\nHistory\r\nIn possession of H.M. & W. Arnold since discovery. After the lapse of time since 1964 the Arnolds are unable to be positive that (3) was found at same time & place as (1-2).", "Contents": "(1) Spearhead with rounded kite shaped blade and a long slender socket with rivet half way down, the head of the rivet still preserved on one side. Socket penetrates the blade to the point where the tip is broken off and is still filled with the original ashwood shaft of the spear\r\n(2) Spearhead with ogival blade ; socket, broken off just below blade, is flanked on each side by cast ribs.\r\n\r\nPossibly but not certainly found at same time & place as (1-2)\r\n(3) Comma-shaped lump of brass (weight 271.5g) apparently a thick piece of plate with tip and sides worn by use. (Analysis revealed an admixture of 4.4 zinc, highly unusual in Welsh Bronze Age implements)", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 17.11.80", "ContextType": "1a HOARD / O", "BiblioSources": "(a) Savory (1972) 91-97 Fig 2, Plate I\r\n(b) Savory (1980) 119 N\u00b0 272 Fig 40", "Circumstances": "Found in 1964 during construction work on the Head of the Valleys road between Beaufort and Dowlais. About 100 yds SE of the last house in Princetown the new road follows the line of the old LMS railway line which here ran through a shallow cutting. A mechanical excavator digging away the sloping sides of the cutting, and making a trench for a culvert at right angles to it, exposed a large roughly squarish hole with a flat base on which the bronzes lay. The finders, a Mr Arnold and his son, said the sides of the pit seemed to be lined with logs \"like a log cabin in Canada\". Limited excavation of the area by Savory and G. Morgan showed that the pit had been dug into a peat deposit. Numerous fallen branches were found in the peat, especially in the lower layers and it was concluded that the appearance of these branches gave rise to the impression that a definite timber structure existed, a conjecture which can be discounted. A lump of metal, thought to be bronze (3) on analysis turns out to be brass, was possibly but not certainly found at the same time and place as the spearheads (1) and (2).", "FindAltSiteRel": "Formerly Monmouthshire"}}, {"id": 145445, "created": "2020-08-06T19:40:08.182142", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84838, "user_id": 658, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-08-06T20:00:36.386894", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SO 117 101", "Site": "Wales, Gwent, [Blaenau Gwent], Princetown", "CollHist": "Collection:\r\nNational Museum of Wales, Cardiff\r\n70. 32H. 1-3\r\nOn loan from H.M. & W. Arnold, 1970.\r\n\r\nHistory:\r\nIn possession of H.M. & W. Arnold since discovery. After the lapse of time since 1964, the Arnolds are unable to be positive that (3) was found at the same time & place as (1-2).", "Contents": "(1) Spearhead with rounded kite-shaped blade and a long slender socket with rivet halfway down, the head of \r\n      the rivet still preserved on one side. Socket penetrated the blade to the point where the tip is broken off and \r\n      is still filled with the original ashwood shaft of the spear. \r\n(2) Spearhead of ogival blade; socket, broken off just below blade, is flanked on each side by cast ribs.\r\n\r\nPossibly but not certainly found at same time and place as (1-2):\r\n(3) Comma-shaped lump of brass (weight 271.58), apparently a thick piece of plate with tip and sides worn by \r\n     use . (Analysis revealed an admixture of 4.4 zinc, highly unusual in Welsh Bronze Age implements).", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec.: S.H. 19.11.80", "ContextType": "1a Hoard/0", "BiblioSources": "(a) Savory (1972) 91-97 Fig. 2, Plate I\r\n(b) Savory (1980) 119 No. 272 Fig. 40", "Circumstances": "     Found in 1964 during construction work on the Head of the Valleys road between Beaufort and Dowlais. About 100 yds. SE of the last house in Princetown, the new road follows the line of the old LMS railway line which here ran through a shallow cutting. A mechanical excavator digging away the sloping sides of the cutting, and making a trench for a culvert at right angles to it, exposed a large, roughly squarish hole with a flat base on which the bronzes lay. The finders, a Mr. Arnold and his son, said the sides of the pit seemed to be lined with logs \"like a log cabin in Canada\". Limited excavation of the area by Savory and G. Morgan, showed that the pit had been dug into a peat deposit. Numerous fallen branches were found in the peat, especially in the lower layers and it was concluded that the appearance of these branches gave rise to the impression that a definite timber structure existed, a conjecture which can be discounted.  A lump of metal, thought to be bronze (3) on analysis turns out to be brass, was possibly but not certainly found at the same time and place as the spearheads (1) and (2).", "FindAltSiteRel": "Formerly Monmouthshire"}}]