Moel Hebog shield

Moel Hebog shield
Tarian Moel Hebog
Moel Hebog shield. Wales, 1300–1000 BC. On display at the British Museum.
Material	Welsh sheet-bronze
Discovered	1300–1000 BC
Present location	British Museum

The Moel Hebog shield (Welsh: Tarian Moel Hebog) or Moel Siabod shield is a large copper-alloy Yetholm-type shield from Bronze Age Britain, found in Wales in 1784, and now in the British Museum in London. It dates from 1300–1000 BC.

Description

The north-west slopes of Moel Hebog towards Moel yr Ogof, Gwynedd, Wales

The late Bronze Age shield was found in a bog near Moel Hebog mountain in 1784, near Beddgelert. It is now in the British Museum's collection. Other sources point to a finding on Moel Siabod.

Richard Blurton wrote of the shield in the book The Enduring Image: Treasures from the British Museum, "This shield is a splendid example, representative of the rise of large sheet-bronze work in later Bronze Age Europe. Much effort was directed towards the production of ceremonial metal armour indicating the prevalence of the idea of man as a warrior."

There have been calls for the artefact to be returned to Wales.

See also

• Archaeology of Wales