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Record ID: NMGW-EEFAFA
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of uncertain type but probably South Wales (Stogursey) Type of Ewart Park metalworking Industry, dated to c. 950 – 750BC but possibly of Wilburton-Wallington through to Llyn Fawr Industries, dating to c. 1,150 – 600BC
The axehead has been damaged and is incomplete missing its mouth and loop (with a maximum surviving length of 88.9mm and a weight of 232.8g). The break across the axe occurred in antiquity (where the axe had a maximum surviving width and thickness of 43.0mm and 27.6mm respectively, a surviving socket depth of 60.9mm; a face thickness…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EEDC22
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic stone axehead roughout
The axehead is complete (with a length of 204mm and a weight of 419.4g) but has a little recent damage at both the blade edge and the butt. The butt is straight (with a width of 23mm) and the sides are moderately straight, gently convex and gradually divergent to the blade, reaching a maximum width (of 65.8mm) just above the blade (39mm from the blade edge). The blade edge (with a width of 61mm) has a deep and even curve (26mm deep). Both faces have a different profile, one has a clear convexity across its with and a gentle convexity across its le…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EE2AD9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval gold finger-ring of Posy type of 18th century date
The finger-ring is complete but now somewhat distorted (with an external diameter of 19.0mm – 21.5mm, an internal diameter of 18.1mm – 20.4mm and a weight of 3.38g). The band is of shallow D-shaped section (with a width of 5.1mm and a thickness of 0.4mm). The exterior surface has no decoration. The interior carries an inscription in italic script and reading:
No bond to vertue S. S
There is a maker’s mark of a capitol Roman letter R with a shield
The inscription would read ‘No bound to vir…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-ED5968
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe probably of Needham’s Class 3 axes but of uncertain subtype
The axehead is incomplete, missing the butt end and with some truncation to the blade tips and edge (with a surviving length of 93.6mm and a weight of 199.2g). The axe is rectangular-sectioned (with a width and thickness at the break of 28mm x 10.0mm), with no suggestion of hammered flanges or developed edge features on the intact areas of the edges. The sides are straight and divergent before expanding more sharply to the blade tips, now damaged and truncated (with a surviving width of…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EC9AAB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver cut halfpenny of Æthelred II (978–1016), 'Second Hand' type (c.AD 985-91; North 768; BMC iid), moneyer: Beornulf, mint: London (probably). Ref: North 1994: 158.
The coin is missing a small fragment from one end.
weight: 0.57g
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-EC617E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix of 13th or 14th century date
The seal matrix was of circular form and is incomplete with edge damage, wear and corrosion (with a dimeter of 27.1mm - 29.4mm and a weight of 20.9g). The rear of the seal has a perforated D-shaped lug (17mm long, 6mm thick at the base and 3mm at the apex, 7mm high and with an internal diameter of 2.7mm). The rear of the matrix is bevelled towards the central axis but there does not appear to have been a rib below the loop. The seal die has lost nearly all of the incised design by either wear and corrosion or edge damage. The…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EC025E
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead papal bull of mid-14th century date
The cast circular bulla is near-complete, with some edge damage, evident on the reverse face (with a diameter of 35.7mm – 36.5mm, a thickness of 4.5mm and a weight of 33.1g). The bull is of Pope Clement VI (papacy: 1341-52). The obverse face depicts the heads of the two Patron Saints, Paul and Peter within beaded frames and beneath the legends: SPA and SPE. There appears to have been a cross patée on a staff between the saints.
The reverse face has the legend:
CLE
MENS
PP VI
There is an omega over the …
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EA5EA7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy ewer spout of 14th or 15th century date
The cast spout is fragmentary, represented by the zoomorphic end of the spout in the form of the head of a water bird, probably a duck (with a length of 41.8mm and a height of 24.2mm and a weight of 22.0g, including sediment). The neck has broken below the head and is sub-circular sectioned (with an external diameter of 11.1mm – 11.9mm and internal diameter of 7.0mm). The fragmentary spout is widens and deepest at the head (with a width of 14.2mm and a depth of 16.8mm). The bird is depicted with short incised marks c…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EA53BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of T-shaped type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date
The cast brooch is fragmentary, with only the head and top of the bow surviving (with a surviving length of 18.1mm, a surviving depth of 10.2mm and a weight of 5.7g). The missing pin was hinged within tubulars, now truncated (with a surviving width of 25.8mm and a diameter of 4mm – 6mm). The top of the bow is of D-shaped section, with straight but eroded sides converging to a break on the narrow bow (2.9mm wide and 2.2mm thick). There is the suggestion of a midrib on the bow but all other detail on…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-9B610B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of indeterminate type probably of Ewart Park metalworking Industry, dated to c. 950 – 750BC but possibly of Wilburton-Wallington through to Llyn Fawr Industries, dating to c. 1,150 – 600BC
The axe head is fragmentary missing its upper part and is represented by approximately half of the original (with a maximum surviving length of 56.6mm and a weight (containing sediment) of 143.6g). The break across the axe occurred in antiquity (where the axe had a maximum surviving width and thickness of 42.3mm and 22.3mm respectively). The axe has a sub-rectan…
Created on: Thursday 21st January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-5ADA97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch fragment of uncertain type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date
The brooch is represented by the corroded head only (with a surviving length of 10.5mm, a surviving depth of 5.7mm and a weight of 2.8g). The brooch employed a spring mechanism, possibly in a Polden Hill, hook type arrangement but the wing terminals or hook are no longer present (with a surviving width of 17.1mm). The projecting head is of rectangular section (8.0mm wide and 5.4mm thick) and has broken at the turn to the bow. No decoration survives on the broch fragment. The surface has a d…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-5ACA14
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of decorative metalwork of uncertain function, possibly a vessel mount of late Iron Age to early Roman date, c. 1st century BC to 2nd century AD
The fragment (with a weight of 104g) is very-heavily corroded and of uncertain original form. One end has a sub-oval face, seemingly broken in all directions (with a surviving length of 22.6mm and a surviving width of 12.1mm), slightly domed that was decorated with enamelled cells of curvilinear form. Two of the surviving cells are sub-circular and contain pale-blue enamel, another two surviving cells were perhaps of droplet for…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-5A8E7B
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead
The bifacially worked arrowhead is incomplete, missing one barb, which has broken in antiquity (with a length of 23.6mm, a surviving basal width of 20.9mm, a maximum thickness of 4.2mm and a weight of 1.4g). The flint has patinated white and is non-cortical.
Found 320m to the north of the arrowhead at ST 4975 9063 were three pieces of debitage, two bladelets and a spall, all unpatinated and non-cortical. One of the bladelets is a proximal fragment with utilisation scars along one side edge
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-584564
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval to post medieval copper alloy purse bar probably of 16th century date
The purse is represented by the base of the loop and the bar and is heavily-corroded (with a weight of 14.2g) and was probably of Ward Perkins (1940, p 168)[1] Type B1. The loop was likely to have been oval (with a basal width of 10.6mm, 8.5mm internal). The loop has a globular, sub-spherical fitting below the central block. The shank has been peened over the basal globular fitting (of 5.0mm diameter) to secure it. The central block is sub-rectangular (15.9mm wide, 12.0mm high and 9.5mm thick). T…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-583281
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval, Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy prick spur fragment of 11th century date
The cast spur is fragmentary, represented by the incomplete neck and goad point (with a surviving length of 42.3mm and a weight of 13.9g). The point (11mm long) is square sectioned and widens towards the goad, with a bevel before the goad. The square goad (14.0mm x 15.4mm) is decorated on its point side with closely spaced grooves. The neck is sub-circular-sectioned (5.6mm x 6.4mm) and incorporated a decorative moulding, broken at its apex. The moulding (17.4mm long, 9.7mm wide and 7.7mm thic…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-572065
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy vessel escutcheon of ox-head form
The cast ox-head escutcheon is incomplete, missing one of the side loops and the lower part of the basal loop (with a surviving length of 45.4mm, a surviving width of 33.0mm and a weight of 18.3g). The circular loop at the apex, is of rectangular section (17.9mm wide and 4.8mm thick) would have held a handle and with a perforation now of elongated form (10.2mm x 8.3mm), narrower at its top surface probably through wear. The escutcheon was attached by peripheral loops at each side and at the base, all of which are now incomplete…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-08658C
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval, Anglo-Saxon copper alloy harness mount, probably of 7th or 8th century date
The cast mount is of rectangular form and is incomplete, missing the integral loop (with a length of 24.6mm, a width of 14.9mm, a surviving depth of 7.7mm and a weight of 6.1g). The mount has geometric decoration in cast-relief, probably of Style II. The decoration is arranged around a central vertical rib, which undulates over raised mouldings at each terminal and incorporates a central oval boss (giving the mount a maximum thickness of 5.2mm). The rib is enhanced with three fine grooves. The …
Created on: Thursday 14th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-084887
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe, probably of Needham’s Class 4 and probably relating to axes of later Class 3 or earlier Class 4.
The axehead is complete with a broadly lenticular profile but with subtle bevels and is comparatively small (with a length of 91.2mm and a weight of 152.4g). The thin butt has a gentle curve (with a width of 19.5mm and a thickness of 2.0mm). One side is near-straight, slightly convex and diverging gently towards the bade (with a width at the top of the blade of 29.5mm), before diverging sharply to the recurved blade edge (with a blade width of 44.0…
Created on: Thursday 14th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C749D9
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval to post medieval copper alloy purse bar probably of 16th century date
The purse is represented by the bar and the base of the fragmentary loop (with a weight of 46.1g) and is of Ward Perkins (1940, p 168)[1] Type B1. The incomplete loop is in three fragments and was oval (with a basal width of 11.3mm, 5.7mm internal and an approximate length of 32mm). The loop has a moulding with three ribs at its base and a washer above the peened-over shank end, below the central block. The central block is rectangular (16.0mm wide, 15.0mm high and 13.7mm thick). The block is deco…
Created on: Monday 11th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C5540B
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy purse bar of Ward Perkins Type B1, likely of late medieval to Early Post Medieval date (1450 – 1550 AD).
The object consists of a complete purse bar and suspension loop as well as two small fragments of the purse frame, while the remaining majority of the purse frame is missing. The arms of the bar are circular in cross section and terminate in globular roves, each decorated with a single circumferential groove. The roves secure the purse frame to the bar, and two fragments of the frame remain attached to the bar. These fragments are rounded pieces of sh…
Created on: Monday 11th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2021
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