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News: Rare Bronze Age Welsh hair ring found
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Submitted by PaulM on Wednesday, 26 March 2003 Page Views: 1202
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  A 3,000-year old gold ring found by a metal detector enthusiast is an important archaeological find for Wales, a coroner at a Treasure Trove Inquest ruled yesterday reports Robin Turner.
Swansea and Gower Coroner Richard Morgan declared the Bronze Age "hair ring," discovered by 38-year-old Nigel Powell in Swansea Bay, was officially Treasure Trove and belonged to the Government.
The coroner suggested the compensation fee payable to Mr Powell and landowners Swansea City and County Council should be split evenly.
It is thought the delicate, gold-foil covered copper ring will eventually be valued at around £3,000.
Finds of such rings are extremely rare and it is thought the piece of jewellery may have belonged to a person of wealth and influence, such as a Bronze Age chieftain or possibly a princess.
Historians believe the rings, only occasionally found in Scotland, Ireland, England, and the Low Countries and rarely in Wales, were used as hair adornments and also as money.
The ring dates back to the 10th or 11th Century BC.
For more see icWales.
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