© National Museum Cardiff
Burton Hoard
Artist: Bronze Age
Location: National Museum Cardiff
Date: circa 2000-1600BC
Materials: gold & bronze & ceramic
Grant:
Amount Paid: £21,000 (Total: £85,000)
Vendor: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Review number: 5666 (2005)
Provenance:
Discovered near the River Alyn, Denbighshire, Wales by a metal detector user and declared Treasure in 2004.
Description:
A collection of 14 gold adornments and bronze tools originally buried in a pottery vessel. The gold adornments include a flange-twisted torc, a wire-twisted bracelet, a composite pendant, four beads and three penannular rings. The tools include two Transitional Palstaves and a trunnion tool. A fragment of the ceramic vessel base also survived.
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