[{"id": 145641, "created": "2020-08-10T14:22:16.462357", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 85249, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-08-10T14:46:52.628535", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c SJ 12;72", "Site": "WALES;CLWYD;[DELYN];Near CAERWYS;MAESMY'NAN", "CollHist": "Lost", "Contents": "(1-7) Seven armlets of twisted gold fastened by hooks in the manner of torques\r\n(8-11) Four torques, one of which was much heavier than the others.\r\n(12) A large piece of solid gold, heart-shaped, with a ring adhering to the broadest end of it\r\n(13) A large chain composed of beads about the size of pigeon's eggs with a ring between each to connect it together\r\n(14) A container described (a) and (b) as a casket of brass, gilded and curiously wrought\r\nor (c) as an earthen vessel.", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 24.1.81", "ContextType": "1a. HOARD", "BiblioSources": "(a) Angharad Llwyd MS 1577c in National Library of Wales. (p. 8 note on opposite page\r\n(b) Angharad Llwyd (1833) 311-2\r\n(c) Fisher (1917) 141\r\n(d) Davies (1949) 431-433\r\n\r\n(Refs (a) & (b) not seen by SH)", "Circumstances": "Reference (d) quoting (a) and (b) reports that in 1782, while some men were cutting a road across the Birchen Wood (Coed Bedw) behind a meadow where an old house called Llys Measmynan once stood, they discovered a casket containing gold ornaments. The casket was described as being made of brass, gilded and curiously wrought, which crumbled into dust when taken out of the ground where it was buried 3ft deep near a large stone. The seven men who found the hoard sold it to a Mr R. Richardson, a silversmith at Chester.\r\nReference (c) says the hoard was found in an earthen vessel. Reference (d) also quotes a letter from Sir Cyril Fow : \" ... the seven armlets (1-7) are probably small ribbon torques ... the four torques (8-11) are probably the larger, heavier variety usually ascribed to the Middle Bronze Age. The large piece of gold, heart shaped with a ring adhering to it (12) can convey little to anybody. Small gold rings are common enough in the bronze age & heart-shaped may mean nothing more than that there was a lump of gold - a nugget - something like a heart in shape. But I cannot tell you h[ow] or why a gold ring should \"adhere\" to another piece ... The beads (13) are interesting. Evidently something like this :- chain of amber ? beads and gold rings (gold wire loops at each end of individual beads .....) The casket may well have been a bucket of wooden staves mounted with decorated bronze bands, hence its collapse when unearthed. Compare the \"Marlborough bucket\" which doubtless hjad late Bronze Age precursors\".\r\nReference (d) adds that Angharad Llwyd who described the hoard in (a) and (b) was only 3 years old at the time of the discovery and never saw the objects. The account she was given 50 years later could not have been very accurate.", "FindAltSiteRel": "Denbigshire"}}, {"id": 147963, "created": "2020-09-15T17:37:02.371683", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 85249, "user_id": 243, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-09-15T18:24:49.629467", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c SJ 12 72", "Site": "WALES; CLWYD; [DELYN]; Near CAERWYS; MAESMY'NAN", "CollHist": "Lost", "Contents": "(1-7) Seven armlets of twisted gold fastened by hooks in the manner of torques; (8-11) Four torques, one of which was much heavier than the others.; (12) A large piece of solid gold, heart-shaped, with a ring adhering to the broadest end of it; (13) A large chain composed of beads about the size of piegeon's eggs with a ring between each to connect it together; (14) A container described (a) and (b) as a casket of brass, gilded and curiously wrought, or (c) as an earthen vessel.", "comments": "NGR, \"DELYN\" in Site, Find Name, and the final note in Bibliography are all in gray pencil vs the dark ink of the rest of the card.; In Contents, uncertain on the name \"Sir Lynil Fox\".; Circumstances section is mostly transcribed as is, with the addition of one missing portion of a word highlighted in brackets.  The section is somewhat confusingly written as it is a 3rd party retelling of a reference's review of another reference's description along with interstitched quotes and analysis.", "ArchiveEtc": "[Rec.] S.H. 24.1.81", "ContextType": "1a. HOARD (c)", "BiblioSources": "(a) Angharad Lhwyd MS 1577c in National Library of Wales. CP.8 note on opposite page; (b) Angharad Lhwyd (1833) 311-2; (c) Fisher (1917) 141; (d) Davies (1949) 431-433; (Refs (a) & (b) not seen by S H)", "Circumstances": "Reference (d) quoting (a) and (b) reports that in 1782, while some men were cutting a road across the Birchen Wood (Coed Bedw) behind a meadow where an old house called LLys Maesmynan once stood, they discovered a casket containing gold ornaments.  The casket was described as being made of brass, gilded and curiously wrought, which crumbled into dust when taken out of the ground where it was buried 3ft deep near a large stone.  The seven men who found the hoard sold it to a Mr R. Richardson, a Silversmith at Chester.; continued; Reference (c) says the hoard was found in an earthen vessel.  Reference (d) also quotes a letter from Sir Lynil Fox: \"...the seven armlets (1-7) are probably small ribbon torques...the four torques (8-11) are probably the larger, heavier variety usually ascribed to the Middle Bronze Age.  The large piece of gold, heart shaped with a ring adhering bit (12) can convey little to anybody.  Small gold rings are common enough in the bronze age & heart-shaped may mean nothing more than that there was a lump of gold - a nugget- something like a heart in shape.  But I cannot tell you h[ow] or why a gold ring should 'adhere' to another piece... The beads (13) are interesting.  Evidently something like this :- chain of amber? beads and gold rings (gold wire loops at each end of individual beads .....) The casket may well have been a bucket of wooden staves mounted with decorated bronze hands, hence its collapse when unearthed.  Compare the \"Malborough bucket\" which doubtless had Late Bronze Age precursors\".; Reference (d) adds that Angharad Lhwyd who described the hoard in (a) and (b) was only 3 years old at the time of the discovery and never saw the objects.  The account she was given 50 years later could not have been very accurate.", "FindAltSiteRel": "Denbighshire"}}]