Moel Hebog shield

The Moel Hebog shield (Welsh: Tarian Moel Hebog) or Moel Siabod shield[1] is a large copper-alloy Yetholm-type shield from Bronze Age Britain, found in Wales in 1784, and is now in the British Museum in London.

The late Bronze Age shield was found in a bog near Moel Hebog mountain in 1784, near Beddgelert.

[2][3][4] Other sources point to a finding on Moel Siabod.

[1][5] 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.

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