[{"id": 145566, "created": "2020-08-09T11:44:40.338344", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 85233, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-08-09T11:52:32.111518", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SH 967;757", "Site": "WALES;CLWYD;[", "CollHist": "", "Contents": "", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "", "ContextType": "1a HOARD", "BiblioSources": "", "Circumstances": "", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 145573, "created": "2020-08-09T13:26:34.167438", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 85233, "user_id": null, "user_ip": "82.248.124.217", "finish_time": "2020-08-09T13:28:00.857478", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SH 967;757", "Site": "WALES;CLWYD;[COLWYN];ST GEORGE;PARC-Y-MEIRCH", "CollHist": "Hull Museum\r\nItems (1) (3) (5) (7-12) (19-21) (23-27) (32-36) (42-48) (58-63) (71-72) (74-75) (78-79) (82-86)\r\nNational Museum of Wales, Cardiff\r\n40.368\r\nItems (2) (4-4a) (6) (13-18) (22) (28-31) (37-41) (49-57) (64-70) (73) (76-77) (80-81) (87-91)\r\nAlso electrotype copies of items (93-102)\r\nPurchased : 64.100.2-12\r\nAnd electrotype copies of items (19) (21)\r\nPurchased 75.26.1-2\r\nSt Aspah Cathedral Museum Items (92-103)\r\nHistory\r\nThe objects from the Parc-y-Meirch hoard now in Hull Museum and the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, were acquired in 1940 from the Executors of the original owner at Kinmel Park, then in Denbigshire. The hoard had been carefully preserved in glass cases at Kinmel Park from 1868 until purchased for Hull Museum and the NMW, Cardiff, by the National Art Collections Fund.\r\nApart from the objects preserved at Kinmel Park, twelve objects, items (92-103), came into the possession of Mrs E.M. Humphreys, n\u00e9e Carmichael, of the Cambrian Arms, Abergele. When she died in 1890, they became the property of her brother,", "Contents": "(1) Rattle Pendant consisting of 6 discs attached to 3 interlocking rings\r\n(2) Rattle Pendant as (1) but one disc missing\r\n(3) Two oval rings, with oval sections, fitting one within the other. The inner piece has a 1/4\" hole through the centre and has an inverted wedge-shaped loop at the top which fits into a slot in the outer oval. Both rings are hollow with traces of a lead filling\r\n(4-4a) Two oval rings as (3) but slot damaged and loop broken\r\n(5) Outer oval ring of fitting as (3) with slot broken away\r\n(6) Broken ring similar to (5)\r\n(7-12) Six tubular rings with traces of a lead filling\r\n(13-18) Six tubular rings as (7-12)\r\n(19) Massive half-ring broken along the choard of the arc. This flat piece was joined to the half-ring by two pointed extremities soldered on the inside of the tube which had apparently been filled with lead.\r\n(20) Plain ring of 1/8\" copper wire with collar-like piece added\r\n(21) Small half-tubular ring\r\n(22) Ring as (21)\r\n(23) Slotted reel\r\n(24-27) Four buckle-like objects of concave section with 3 transverse ribs and a slot at the back for a leather strap\r\n(28-31) Four buckle-like objects as (24-27)\r\n(32-37) Five slides for straps with 3 tranverse ribs and back loops\r\n(28-41) [sic] Five slides for straps as (32-37)\r\n(42-48) Seven slides for straps as (32-37) but larger, and the 3 transverse ribs end in prominent spurs on one side\r\n(49-57) Nine slides for straps as (42-48)\r\n(58-63) Six slides for straps as (42-48) but 4 transverse ribs ending in prominent spurs on one side\r\n(64-70) Seven slides for straps as (58-63)\r\n(71) Miniature version of slide as (32-37)\r\n(72) Slide for a pair of straps with seven transverse ribs in spurs on each side\r\n(73) Slide as (72)\r\n(74-75) Two slightly convex harness mounts with slots at back for crossed straps. Nine concentric embossed rings around a central pellet on each mount.", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "", "ContextType": "1a HOARD", "BiblioSources": "(a) Hughes & Franks (1871) 556-7 Plate XXXVII\r\n(b) Evans (1881) 144, 308, 404 Figs. 505-507, 471\r\n(c) Davies (1929) 408-410 Fig 143\r\n(d) Sheppard (1941a) 1-10 Plate VIII\r\n(e) Grimes (1951) 191-2 N\u00b0 551\r\n(f) Savory (1958) 41-2\r\n(g) Thrane (1958) 221-7\r\n(h) Savory (1975) 117-120 Fig. 4\r\n(i) Savory (1980) 119 N\u00b0 269 Fig 39", "Circumstances": "Found before 1868 in a bed of broken limestone mixed with soil at the foot of a crag which forms part of a hill called Parc-y-Meirch on the Kinmel Estate. Workmen, extracting road-metal came across the hoard lying all together at a depth of about 3 ft below the surface, under the roots of an old ash tree. Small bits of rotten bone, jaw-bones and fragments of a skull (species not specified) were mixed up with the soil and stones.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]