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Record ID: NMGW-7384A9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, possibly a surgical implement of Roman date
The object is fragmentary, broken or cut on one end and is slightly distorted (with a distorted length of 118.6mm and a weight of 2.4g). Approximately half of the abject is circular-sectioned (1.6mm diameter) and the other half is flattened with a subtle midrib on one face and flat on the opposite face (with a width of 2.7mm and a thickness of 1.2mm). The midrib ends before the break, where the object is slightly thicker (at 1.9mm) possibly because of cutting with a pliers or similar tool. The surface has been strip…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-487432
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age bronze blade, possibly a dirk of Group IV blade with a damaged butt.
The dirk is incomplete with some peripheral damage to the butt (with a length of 124.3mm and a weight of 29.3g). The shoulders are eroded but appear to have been comparatively broad (with a surviving width of 48.2mm) and is better preserved on one side. The original form of the hilt is now uncertain although it may have been of trapezoidal form with differential corrosion to the apex of the butt, which now has convergent sides. There are no definite rivet holes evident but there is a notch at t…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-A2EEDE
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy openwork probable strap-end, of late medieval date.
The mount is incomplete, broken at one end and possibly also broken at the other (with a surviving length of 32.2mm and a weight of 10.7g). The wider end is straight and is the thickest surviving part of the mount (with a width of 25.1mm and a thickness of 4.2mm) and appears to be near-complete but is corroded. The end is decorated on both faces with diagonal incised marks; on the front face, the marks are cut through a rounded rib, while on the rear fewer marks are cut through the edge. The sides are convex (reachi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-22CCF1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy token
Farthing token:
Thomas Love /
OF NEATH MERCER
L / T B
Boon, Welsh Tokens: 87a
There is an example in The British Museum collections
0.86g
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-220295
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy looped fitting probably from a purse bar of late medieval to post medieval date, c. 15th to 17th century
The fitting is incomplete, missing the shank and basal rivet (with a surviving length of 35.9mm and a weight of 8.9g). The loop is of sub-oval form (with a width of 18.0mm, a length of 29.3mm; internal: 12.1mm x 23.1mm) and is also of ova section (7.2mm wide and 2.8mm thick). Beneath the shaft expands slightly at the collar before narrowing to the circular-sectioned shank (4.5mm diameter), which would have swivelled within the box of the purse bar. The shank has b…
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-2191FB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Crossbow variant type and of 3rd or 4th century date
The brooch is fragmentary, missing the pin, most of the foot and the end of one arm (with a surviving length of 64.0mm and a weight of 7.4g). The pin was hinged within sub-circular cylindrical arms formed by rolled sheet copper alloy (with a surviving length of 42.3mm and a diameter of 5.2mm - 6.1mm). The axis bar does not survive and the one surviving knob (9.3mm maximum diameter and 6.9mm long) appears to have been of iron but is no longer ferrous through corrosion. The knob was of uncertain for…
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-7D6D9A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy coin
Constans, Augustus (AD 337-50) nummus
VICTORIAE DD AVGG Q NN; two victories (340-9); uncertain mint - mark missing
1.17g
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 15th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-683827
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy coin weight of late 15th or early 16th century date
Weight for a gold ryal, English, after 1465
6.53g (101 grains)
Created on: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 14th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-E7E092
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy token
Copper farthing token, Youghal (c. 1646-57)
Y [ ] / ship
cf. Spink 6564 small module
0.57g, corroded
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-E7CEA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy token
Copper farthing token, Kinsale (probably c. 1652-3)
cf. Spink 6563 small module
Cf G. Brady and C. Gallacher: 'Munster "Siege Pieces" or early tokens?; Numismatic Circular, March 1986, 75-77
1.03g, corroded
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-E79F03
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy coin
Trajan (AD 98-117) dupondius, Rome
SPQR OPTIMIO PRINCIPI; Dacian seated with trophy of arms to the left
RIC 563 (Cos V = 103-11)
5.25g, corroded
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 8th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-E6B9A1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy token
Farthing token
John Hughes, Jr
Mercer, Carmarthen; n.d.
Boon 2ba
0.89g
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 8th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-E69B34
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy token
Halfpenny token
Mathew Davies
Mercer, Swansea 1666
Boon 106a
1.89g
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 8th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-D4917A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Galba (AD 68-69), dating to the period c.AD 68-69 (Reece period 3). Probably LIBERTAS PVBLICA, S C reverse type depicting Libertas standing left holding pileus and rod. Mint of Rome. As RIC (2nd ed.), p. 247, no. 309.
Weight: 16.62g, worn and water-rolled
Created on: Wednesday 7th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-D18585
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy coin
As or dupondius of mid-2nd century AD date, empress uncertain
5.30g, corroded
Created on: Wednesday 7th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 7th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-DC2DCF
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy coin weight
Half guinea of William III (1694-1701), the maker is possibly John Wade
Withers 1237
3.74g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-C7724E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle fitting of uncertain date, probably Late Iron Age to Early Roman, possibly 1st or 2nd century AD
The fitting is probably a bridle link from either a two or three-link bridle bit and is near complete but is heavily worn and corroded (with a surviving length of 56.0mm and a weight of 21.3g). The bridle fitting comprises two loops, both now open and only partially preserved but were at a perpendicular axis to each other and positioned each end of the bar. One loop has a smaller diameter (of 15.5mm) but has a comparatively wide sleeve (with a width of 25.5mm and a t…
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-47ACD3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval copper alloy buckle of mid-14th to mid-15th century date
The buckle is incomplete, missing the sheet plates and one of the side forks (with a length of 8.1g). The frame is oval with a central, pointed lip (5.0mm wide) and a probable notch for the pin, now worn. Otherwise the frame is of consistent with and thickness and of triangular section (2.5mm wide and 2.4mm thick). There are rounded ribs behind the frame (giving the buckle a maximum thickness of 4.6mm and with a length of 5.6mm) suggesting that separate sheet-metal plates were employed. There is a rabbet (3.3mm …
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 25th November 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-46A3A3
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Socketed bronze hammer probably of Late Bronze Age date (c. 1150 - 700BC)
The hammer is fragmentary, broken across its width and is represented by just under half of the original (with a surviving width of 23mm and a weight of 40.9g). The whole length of the hammer is represented on the side (with a length of 52.2mm). The mouth suggests a square or rectangular body section (with external surviving dimensions of 22.3mm x 16.3mm and with an internal width of 16.7mm) and had a simple moulding (5-6mm long), now worn. There is no surviving evidence for casting runner stubs on the mouth …
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-4675A9
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed tool fragment, probably an axe mouth fragment
The tool is fragmentary, represented by a mouth fragment (with a surviving length of 22.6mm, a surviving width of 20.6mm and a weight of 6.0g). The mouth is near-straight for most of its length but appears to be turning at the break on one side. There is a prominent collar moulding, thickest at the mouth (at 4.0mm thick and 7.9mm long) and there is no surviving evidence for a casting stub on the mouth. There are no ribs present on the fragment. One side has an irregular break, while the other side, with t…
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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