. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ,?j% of an inch indiameter, all ofthesame size,witlia iiy of an inchround knop ateach angle. Theworkmanship issomewhat rude. ,„; ,. It was recently found ou the Coppet hill, near C4oodrich,where other Roman remains have from time to time beendiscovered. It was placed in the Temporary Museum of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Hereford, at the Congi-essheld there in August, 1877, and was, in November of the sameyear, exhibited at the rooms of theInstitute in London, together withthe fragment of another examplefrom t
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ,?j% of an inch indiameter, all ofthesame size,witlia iiy of an inchround knop ateach angle. Theworkmanship issomewhat rude. ,„; ,. It was recently found ou the Coppet hill, near C4oodrich,where other Roman remains have from time to time beendiscovered. It was placed in the Temporary Museum of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Hereford, at the Congi-essheld there in August, 1877, and was, in November of the sameyear, exhibited at the rooms of theInstitute in London, together withthe fragment of another examplefrom the collection of Mr. Franksof the British Museum, (fig. 9),(Aicltceolofjical Journal, xxxv., j>.87.) This latter example is ofsomewhat finer workmanship, thethickness of the metal being only-V of an inch and the knojjs 1% ofan inch. One entire faciet andthiee-halves are broken away andlost. The circular holes, which inthis example are surrounded byconcentric circles, vary in size from(Fig. !i) from \ to J of an in. in diameter, no two faciets being exactly ;u Transactions at Bristol. There is another example o£ larger size in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries. Each side measures in diameter 2i ins.,and the diameter of the openings increase gradually from i\ toabout liins. It was found in May, 1768, at a depth of about 8feet on the North side of St. Peters Church, Caermarthen, togetherwith several pieces of copper, curiously laid in flag-bricks, whichcrumbled to dust; and was communicated to the Society inMay, 17S0, by Levett Blackborne, Esq., (Minutes , p. 98.) A similar bronze dodecagon, found with CopperCoins at Aston in Hertfordshire, in a iield called Hagdale, wasexhibited to the Society of Antiquaries, by Mr. North, on 28thJune, 1739 (Minutes, vol. III., p. 98), and another of smallersize, and without balls at the angles, found near Fishguard, wassent to the Society by Rev. Edward Harries of Llandysilio, on12th March, 1864. Ther
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