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| Image | Object Type | Find number | Broadperiod | County | Actions |
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Strap end | NMGW-29ACE1 |
Early medieval | Hampshire |
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| The strap-end is near complete, with some damage to the attachment end. The strap was secured within a V-shaped split (12mm long), which would have been attached by two rivets near the corners, now missing. The strap-end is widest at the attachment end (with a width of 8.1mm) with straight conver... | |||||
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Dress hook | NMGW-B0C420 |
Post medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Silver gilt decorative roundel which once adorned the front of a dress-hook loop, to the back of which are soldered three sections of wire (which when complete formed the trefoil loop for the hook). The slightly domed silver gilt boss has a border of 'cable-twist' filigree wire, wound in a spiral... | |||||
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Finger ring | NMGW-9A96E6 |
Post medieval | Powys |
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| Silver bezel of a finger ring containing an orangey-red, cornelian, intaglio. The edge of the bezel is decorated by a line of triangles running round its bottom edge and the back by an engraved floral pattern. The intaglio depicts a winged male figure, probably Cupid, a large bunch of grapes and ... | |||||
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Coin | NMGW-DDBBF5 |
Post medieval | Wrexham |
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| A gold touch-piece of James II (1685-88). Such pieces formed part of the ceremony of 'touching for the King's Evil' (scrofula, believed to be cured by the monarch's touch); patients received a memento in the form of a 'touch-piece', suspended on a white ribbon. The early Stuart monarchs (James I,... | |||||
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Finger ring | NMGW-9F38B2 |
Post medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Silver gilt ring in the form of a broad band with single beaded edges. The inner face is engraved with legend LEVE +TO +DYE ♣ in Roman capitals, with crosslets between words, and a trefoil at the end. The hoop, which has a fracture across it, has an internal diameter of 18.6mm. Weight 5.1g. App... | |||||
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Whistle | NMGW-9F1A17 |
Post medieval |
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| The reported object is a small whistle made of silver sheet. It is complete, retaining a small suspension ring (for a ribbon) on its underside. It is plain without maker's mark or decoration, and has a domed end which has been soldered to the pipe. The hawking whistle has not undergone any cleani... | |||||
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Dress hook | NMGW-9F0C64 |
Post medieval |
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| Silver gilt dress-hook with a trefoil back-plate cut from a sheet and indented by filing, to which (on the reverse) a separate hook and bar loop have been soldered. Attached to the front of the plate by solder are three hollow hemispherical silver gilt bosses. Each is decorated with three single-... | |||||
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Pendant | NMGW-9E8024 |
Medieval | Pembrokeshire |
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| Description The reported object is a silver gilt devotional reliquary pendant (weight 17.613g.). It is of rounded arch niche form, with one hinged door. This has been made with the hinge on the right, and was opened by removing a pin which slides through retaining tubes on the left side of the pe... | |||||
| Coin | NMGW-9E6076 |
Medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Description of objects The three coins are all silver issues of King Edward III of England (1327-77), described in standard numismatic classification as follows: 1. groat, London, series D/C, c.1353; 2. half groat, York, Series E, c.1354-5; 3. groat, London, Series F, c.1356. All of the coins are... | |||||
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Coin | NMGW-9E40C5 |
Medieval | Flintshire |
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| Description of Objects Three medieval silver coins. The three coins are all silver pennies in the name of King Edward (Edward I and II of England), described in terms of standard numismatic classification as follows: 1. class 10cf3, London mint, c.1307-9; 2. class 11a, London, c.1311-14; 3. class... | |||||
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Finger ring | NMGW-9DEB70 |
Medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Description of object Decorative gold ring with a D-shaped cross section. Externally plain, the inner face is engraved in Gothic textura (black letter) script, though the reading is not clear. Allowing for the first letter as I and the last two as LT, one possibility is a garbled version of 'I VO... | |||||
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Finger ring | NMGW-9DC905 |
Medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Description Decorative gold ring with a projecting oval bezel of floriate form with 11 'petals', set with a small uncut (cabochon) almandine garnet. Each petal is engraved with a central dot. There is a small transverse ridge on each side of the bezel at the junction with the hoop, decorated with... | |||||
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Finger ring | NMGW-9D9A68 |
Medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Decorative gold ring with a projecting facetted rectangular bezel, set with a small uncut (cabochon) purple stone, probably rose quartz. There is a small transverse ridge on each side of the bezel at the junction with the hoop, decorated with transverse engraved lines. The underside of the bezel ... | |||||
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Brooch | NMGW-9C3A27 |
Medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Description The reported object is the body of a silver annular brooch; the pin is missing. The brooch has been created by filing down the rim of, and removing the centre from, a silver coin of King Henry VI of England (1422-61); this has created a flat annular brooch with inner diameter of appro... | |||||
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Bowl | NMGW-9C0216 |
Iron age | Newport |
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| On 19th December 2007, Mr. Craig Mills discovered a hoard of two bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer while metal detecting at Langstone, Newport. A complete wooden and bronze tankard was also discovered by the finder at the same time and within a few metres (estimated at 25 feet by the finder... | |||||
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Horse trapping | NMGW-9B2D52 |
Iron age | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| CORONER'S REPORT Description of object Terret (Found in association with Rein-ring (NMGW-9BEE04) This is a large cast bronze terret, once used as a harness loop on a horse-drawn vehicle, through which reins were passed. In form, it comprises an oval shaped ring with an ... | |||||
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Bead | NMGW-99E8C7 |
Bronze age | Wrexham |
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| A biconical bead made of sheet gold with a central perforation for suspension. The bead is damaged and misshapen, with a snag and a tear evident (maximum diameter 13.5mm, maximum height/width 8.0mm, thickness of sheet <0.1mm, weight 0.84g). The gold wire is sub-rectangular in cross-section, wi... | |||||
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Buckle | NMGW-D43403 |
Medieval | Cardiff |
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| Medieval copper alloy buckle, dating from the mid-14th to the mid-15th century The buckle comprises an oval, lipped frame with a folded sheet plate. The buckle is near-complete, missing some of the pate and the end of the pin (with an overall, distorted length of 33.7mm and a weight of 2.7g). Th... | |||||
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Brooch | NMGW-FF0EE5 |
Early medieval | Powys |
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| Early Medieval copper alloy penannular brooch of Type G and of 5th to 6th century date The brooch is incomplete, missing one terminal and the pin, and has a surviving weight of 3.0g. The brooch is slightly oval with a width of 20.7mm and a height of 18.4mm. The frame is of circular section and h... | |||||
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Flake | NMGW-5939E4 |
Palaeolithic | Swansea |
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| A Middle Palaeolithic Levallois flake The flake is struck with a hard hammer on a piece of pale grey flint that is developing a yellow patina over areas of its surface. The flake has a plain striking platform and there are traces of cortex surviving on the dorsal surface. The flake edges are abr... | |||||
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Hoard | NMGW-440A24 |
Bronze age | Monmouthshire |
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| This hoard contains 19 metalwork fragments, representing 15 artefacts, 2 casting jets and 1 ingot or cake fragment. It comprises:- 9 socketed axes: 6 South Wales type socketed axes 1 ribbed socketed axe 1 South-eastern type (Class A) plain socketed axe 1 Plain slender socketed axe Too... | |||||
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Figurine | NMGW-5BF232 |
Iron age | Swansea |
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| Late Iron Age copper alloy horse figurine, of La Tène style and probably dating to the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD The figurine depicts a horse and is incomplete, missing the head, legs and tail. The horse figurine has a surviving length of 43.61mm and a surviving height of 34.71mm, we... | |||||
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Spear | NMGW-9928A6 |
Medieval | Powys |
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| Medieval iron spearhead, probably of 13th or 14th century date The spearhead is near complete, missing only a small part of the socket base and has an overall length of 279mm. The socket is circular, becoming flat at the neck with an external diameter of 22.2mm (19.6mm internal). Slight damage n... | |||||
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Palstave | NMGW-98C821 |
Bronze age | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Middle Bronze Age bronze palstave The palstave is looped and is of (group III) low-flanged (broad-blade) form, probably of Type Sleaford (Schmidt & Burgess, 1981, pp 136) , belonging to the Taunton or the corresponding Cemmaes tradition in Wales. Taunton / Cemmaes metalworking falls within Need... | |||||
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Chisel | NMGW-889B08 |
Bronze age | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Bronze object of uncertain function and date, probably a simple tanged chisel of Middle Bronze Age date, c.1,500 – 1,000BC The chisel is comparatively small, with a distorted length of 50.83mm (c. 54mm undistorted). The artefact is thickest at its middle (at 3.18mm) and thins to the blade and ... | |||||
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Sword pommel | NMGW-888724 |
Early medieval | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Early Medieval copper alloy sword pommel of late lobed form, probably of 10th or 11th century date The pommel has height of 24.10mm and a length of 51.92mm across the base which curves upwards at both ends and would have rested upon a concave pommel bar. The interior of the pommel has an oval op... | |||||
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Finger ring | NMGW-85DD22 |
Medieval | Carmarthenshire |
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| Medieval gold finger ring probably of late 13th to 14th century date The finger ring is complete with a distorted, flattened hoop. The circumference of the hoop suggests the ring had a diameter of approximately 16mm. The hoop has a width of 1.5mm and a thickness of 0.8mm near the base and is of ... | |||||
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Bow brooch | NMGW-85A1F6 |
Roman | Vale Of Glamorgan |
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| Roman copper alloy bow brooch of T-shaped variant type and probably dating to the 2nd century AD The brooch is incomplete, missing the leg and has a surviving length of 27.01mm and weighs 7.9g. The brooch employed a spring mechanism secured by a Polden Hill type arrangement around a copper alloy... | |||||
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Purse | NMGW-5DBD53 |
Medieval | Herefordshire |
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| Preserved near complete leather purse dating from the Late Medieval or early Post Medieval period, probably c. 1400 – 1650. The purse has been constructed from three pieces of leather: a separate front, back and pocket with an additional leather drawstring tie. The front piece has an attached... | |||||
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Seal matrix | NMGW-5D5968 |
Medieval | Wrexham |
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| Lead seal matrix of Medieval date, probably from the 13th century The seal matrix is circular of 31.6 to 32.3mm diameter with a central sub-square aperture of 9mm width. The seal is flat with a thickness of 4.3 to 5.7mm. The legend encircles the aperture and appears to read: + S ‘ : D A F : I... | |||||
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