Wrexham Heritage Society Find of the Quarter
As part of our role supporting The Portable Antiquities Scheme the Clwyd-Powys
Archaeological Trust pays quarterly visits to the Wrexham Heritage Society, a metal detecting club who
hold their meetings in Acton, Wrexham. We have a good working relationship and together are generating valuable new information about the past. To further
this good work and to encourage members to keep recording their finds with us we have instigated a Find of the Quarter award. Items reported to both club
officers and CPAT during the previous 3 months are compared and the finder of the most interesting item (not always the oldest!) is awarded a special
certificate. So without further ado let us present the winner of the inaugural Find of the Quarter competition, Julian and his rather lovely Late Iron Age
horse harness cheekpiece!
Originally one of a pair that would probably have formed part of a horse’s bridle, this copper alloy bar is beautifully decorated with sweeping lines
and panels filled with red enamel in the Iron Age artistic style called La Tène. Very few such items have been found in the past and there are currently
only 8 other examples on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database! See the full record
here.
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