Record ID: WREX-DC5D73
Object type: SCULPTURE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Iron Age carved stone head.The head is carved from a single piece of limestone with a high quantity of shelly material within it.The face is tilted slightly to the left.It has distinctive lentoid eyes and a large wedge-shaped nose with a very simple slit mouth.The ears are also very simply carved.The back of the head is very smooth, although there appears to have been some attempt to create some form to the back of the head.The head has been truncated at the neck with a straight cut. ​The head has some lichen adhering. Height: 455mm; width: 267mm; thickness: 120mm.It …
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanfiar Dyffryn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CPAT-967061
Object type: SCULPTURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of hollow-backed ceramic decoration or sculpture in the form of the top half of the face of a man, broken across the cheeks just below the nose. Possibly decoration from a building or perhaps part of a sculpture or other artwork. The hair is long and straight, with a side parting, sweeping down the sides of the face and backwards, covering the ears. It is reminiscent of some medieval sculpture. There are however, traces of sideburns and a moustache which is more suggestive of the Edwardian style. The nose is straight and quite wide. Moulded in a yellow ceramic the face appears…
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.