Record ID: NMGW-58C8B1
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy cased mirror of late 13th or 14th century date The mirror case is fragmentary, represented by less than half of one of the discs, with the hinge present but the single lug missing (with a surviving length of 30.6mm, a diameter of approximately 29mm, a depth of 4.0mm and a weight of 2.7g). The hinge has a double lug (5.5mm long, 4.6mm deep, 0.9mm thick and with an internal diameter of 2.7mm) one of which has broken through the perforation. The edge has a flange (1.6mm high and giving a depth of 3.0mm) and the face was convex (0.5mm thick at the break), now di…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-58ADCF
Object type: SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy blade of uncertain date, possibly a Roman surgical implement The object has a leaf-shaped blade and protruding incomplete and distorted tang (with a surviving length of 46.9mm and a weight of 3.5g). The blade-end of the tang has straight and parallel sides (5.1mm wide and 0.8mm thick) and is truncated and bent with little original surface surviving. The blade is leaf-shaped (39mm long and 20.3mm wide) and has a clear central ridge on both faces giving a low lozengic section to the blade (with a maximum thickness of 1.4mm). The original blade edge has been lost but th…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-589749
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy mount, probably a clasp fitting possibly from a harness of late 2nd or 3rd century date The cast mount has openwork decoration and is near-complete (with a length of 42.4mm, a thickness of 2.1mm and a weight of 11.3g). The mount was attached using two iron pins, secured at the corners of the outside edge (through attachment holes of 2.7mm diameter) and also with a central separate copper alloy rivet (3.5mm diameter). The attachment edge (29.8mm wide) undulates around the frame of two open decorative circles (of 6.6mm and 7.1mm diameter) with slight trefoil proj…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-49B5F1
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age blade, from a sword or rapier of Middle to Late Bronze Age date, c. 1300 – 700BC The blade is incomplete and fragmentary, now in three conjoining fragments (with a combined surviving length of 418mm and weights of 146.7g, 130.3g and 15.0g (292g combined)). The upper fragment has broken through a central rivet hole (of 3.6mm diameter, now 7mm from the damaged hilt top). The blade is thickest (at 10.0mm) across its hilt and appears to have been of rounded, sub-rectangular section. The hilt has lost both sides and therefore the ricasso and beginning of the blade are not…
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-495E64
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle to Late Bronze Age bronze dirk with a Group IV blade of uncertain sub-type and of Penard metalworking industry dated to c. 1350 – 1000BC The dirk is incomplete missing the tip and with peripheral damage and is fragmentary, now in three fragments (with a combined surviving length of 186mm and a weight of 70.7g) in addition to the separate bronze rivet. The top edge of the butt is straight and has broken around one of the rivet holes (with a surviving width of 23.6mm and a thickness of 2.0mm). The surviving rivet hole is countersunk and circular (with a diameter of 5.7mm …
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-9A12AC
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Description of find Five Roman silver denarii, as follows (with identities of finders): 1. Republic, denarius of moneyer L PROCILI F.; 3.57g. Rome, c.80 BC; Crawford 379/1. Found by Karl Francis. 2. Republic, denarius of Mark Antony, with M. Barbatius Pollo; 3.52g. Mint moving with Antony, c.41 BC; Crawford 517/2. Found by Michael J Francis. 3. Empire, denarius of Galba, AD 68-9; 2.88g. Rome, cf RIC 2nd Edn, 215. Found by Darren Deeman. 4. Empire, denarius of Vespasian, 69-79; 2.75g. Rome, RIC 75 (AD 74). Found by Karl Francis. 5. Empire, denarius of Nerva, 96-8; 2.9…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-C1AD14
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead steelyard weight of uncertain date, possibly Roman The weight is of sub-spherical, globular form, with a maximum girth just below the apex (with a length of 41.8mm and a maximum diameter of 39.1mm). The weight currently weighs 320.4g which is reasonably consistent (within 97%) of a Roman libra (pound), equivalent to 327.5g. The corroded remains at the apex are likely to be remnants of the iron loop there is also a smaller iron corrosion stain near the base but off centre.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-C1941A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy coin Sestertius, Rome Probably Trajan (AD 98-117) otherwise corroded and illegible 19.36g
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-C179C3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy coin, a dupondius of Domitian (AD 81-96), dating to AD 86 (Reece Period 4), Reverse unclear. Mint of Rome. Obverse legend probably [ -] COS XII CENS PER P P 11.45g, worn and corroded
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-C15C88
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver coin Trajan (AD 98-117) denarius, Rome COS V (AD 103-11) COS V PP SPQR OPTIMO PRINC; Victory walking left RIC 131 2.22g, corroded
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-C13163
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver coin Vespasian (AD 69-79) denarius, Rome Probably COS.ITER TR.POT; Pax seated facing left RIC 10 1.78g, corroded and incomplete
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-C11318
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver coin Vitellius (AD 69; April - December) denarius, Rome PONT MAXIM; Vesta seated facing right RIC (2nd ed.) 107 2.72g
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-84F1C2
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age bronze palstave of Group III, Low Flanged, Broad Blade form and possibly of Type Harlech, as defined by Schmidt & Burgess (1981, p137) . The palstave is near-complete, with minimum peripheral damage (with a length of 156mm and a weight of 394.2g). The butt is damaged but was likely to have been moderately straight (with a width of 18.3mm and a thickness of 3mm). The sides from the butt to the stop are near-parallel, gently convex (with a maximum width of 26.1mm). The loop is irregular and extends either side of the stop (with a length of 32mm, an internal length o…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-5FC137
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver coin Vespasian (AD 69-79) denarius, Rome IMP XIX; Modius with grain ears RIC 110 (obverse head facing right) AD77
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-DA8631
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Earliest to Early Iron Age iron socketed axehead, probably of 8th to 5th century BC date The axehead is symmetrical in form and is incomplete, missing part of one face and side and is a small example (with a length of 88.6mm and a weight of 116.5g). The mouth appears to have been sub-rectangular (with a surviving external width and depth of 32mm and 27mm respectively and 3mm - 11mm thick). The socket (56mm deep) is also of rectangular or sub-rectangular form. There is a suggestion of a gentle out-turning at the mouth but no clear evidence for a collar. The sides are moderately strai…
Created on: Friday 11th August 2017
Last updated: Saturday 30th April 2022
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Record ID: IARCH-983B2C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 252 no. 1051: ""A hoard of seven bronze coins was found in Vaenor (Brecknock) early in 1945, of which three surviving coins are folles of Maximinus II Daia (AD 305-313), Maxentius (306-312), and Constantine I (307-337) respectively." -JRS, XXXVI (1946), 133; from V.E. Nash-Williams."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Vaynor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-6F5981
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy chisel or awl, possibly of Late Bronze Age date The tool is complete (with a length of 88.1mm and a weight of 9.5g). The tang has a short edge at its apex (1.3mm wide and 0.4mm thick) and is square-sectioned for nearly one-third of its length (for 27mm), gradually widening (to a maximum square-section of 3.7mm). The mid-part of the tool is circular-sectioned (with a diameter of 4.3mm) for a little over one-third of its length (for 31mm). The blade is sub-square sectioned (for 32mm) and each of the four faces on the top of the blade has a clear forged facet, which is poss…
Created on: Tuesday 9th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-C8AA64
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Prehistoric flint flake, probably of Neolithic date, c. 4000 - 2000 BC The flint flake is a comparatively large example (at a length of 95.8mm, a width of 76.4mm, a thickness of 25.8mm and a weight of 142.8g). The flake is has a large patch of cortex surviving on its dorsal surface with a linear flaw through the surface, which is not evident on the ventral face. The striking platform shows evidence of core preparation, prior to striking and suggests a hard-hammer technology. The flint has more extensive 'milky' patination on one side facet and moderate patination elsewhere. The edg…
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th December 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-693B4A
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age bronze palstave of Group III, Low Flanged, Broad Blade form and possibly of Sleaford variant type, as defined by Schmidt & Burgess (1981, p136)[1]. The palstave is near-complete, missing the part of the loop and with peripheral damage and is comparatively small (at 127.6mm and with a weight of 243.0g). The butt is damaged but was likely to have been moderately straight (with a width of 21.6mm and a thickness of 6.3mm). The sides from the butt to the stop are near-parallel, gently convex (with a maximum width of 23.8mm). The loop is damaged and extends either side …
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: IARCW-63DAE33DAD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
A Denarius of Uncertain Republican Roman (145-155) Reverse: Uncertain Reference: Uncertain
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Last updated: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pen-y-Darren', grid reference and parish protected.