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  • Circular flint knife, found at Trefeglwys. Only two examples have been recorded within Wales.
Circular flint knife from Trefeglwys
  • This hoard, over 100 items in size, consists entirely of horse harness fittings and is one of the earliest known examples from Britain to have survived. The rattle pendant or 'jangle' (one of two discovered), was fixed to each end of a horse bit. The hoard was discovered before 1868, with early accounts suggesting the possibility of a warrior burial with the hoard. It was found immediately below the western defences of Dinorben hillfort, which was occupied from the late Bronze Age onwards.
The Parc-y-Meirch hoard from Dinorben Bronze Age hillfort
  • The cauldron became an important item of communal feasting equipment from the late Bronze Age onwards. This beautifully preserved example is one of two found in the Llyn Fawr hoard, alongside other tools and weapons. The hoard contains some of the earliest artefacts of iron from Britain.
Bronze Age cauldron from the Llyn Fawr hoard, near Rhigos
  • Warriors and leaders of the late Bronze Age used horse riding and horse drawn wagons to display their status or importance. These domed discs were made in Central Europe and decorated a horse harness or wagon. The winged fitting is an early horse cheek-piece, once attached to a bridle bit, whilst the ornamental plate was probably attached to a leather harness strap.
Bronze Age horse-gear from the Llyn Fawr hoard, near Rhigos
  • These beautifully worked barbed and tanged arrowheads were found alongside other grave goods from Breach Farm. They are made of flint and were once attached to shafts of wood and fired from a bow, possibly during hunting or warfare.
Barbed and tanged arrowheads from the Breach Farm Burial, Llanblethian
  • This important group of artefacts was found with a human burial, which had been placed at the centre of an impressive circular monument made of a mound of earth and stone. The small pottery vessel is highly decorated and was probably made for the funeral, whilst the flint tools and bronze axe may have been the prized possessions of the deceased.
The Breach Farm Burial Assemblage, Llanblethian