Record ID: NMGW-6300C9
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy knife handle terminal of 17th or 18th century date The terminal is complete (with a length of 13.6mm and a weight of 8.6g) but no other part of the handle or knife is represented. The attachment end is gently convex and has a slot to accommodate the end of the knife tang (1 mm wide and 5mm deep). The sides are straight and divergent towards the apex (giving the terminal a maximum width of 17.4mm). The faces are convex across their widths and are slightly thicker at the base (with a maximum thickness of 6.8mm). The faces are decorated prominent incised cro…
Created on: Friday 14th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-62E55B
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval copper alloy pilgrim badge of 15th to mid 16th century date The pilgrim badge is complete (with a length of 25.8mm and a weight of 3.0g) but the surface is heavily-worn. The open-work decoration is in cast-relief (with a thickness of 1.8mm) and depicts the annunciation, or the announcement to Mary by the Angel Gabriel that she is to become the mother of Christ. Mary is depicted on the left, seemingly kneeling at a prie-dieu with the folds of dress evident to the sides of the prie-dieu. Mary has her left arm raised to her breast and right arm on the book and with her head…
Created on: Friday 14th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 16th June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-61B893
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed sickle of Ewart Park or Llyn Fawr metalworking, corresponding to Needham's (1996)[1] Periods 7 - 8, dated to 950 - 500BC. The sickle is fragmentary, represented by the incomplete socket and beginning of the blade (with a surviving length of 30.2mm and a weight of 18.1g). The socket is oval and is basal edge is undamaged (24.6mm long and 11.7mm wide, with internal dimensions of 23.1mm x 18-19mm). The socket is cast (1.3mm thick) without a visible casting seam and the side without the blade is straight. The top of the socket is damaged and has been slightly d…
Created on: Friday 14th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-906A4F
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flaked and polished stone axe, c. 3500 - 2100BC The axe is near-complete (with a length of 164mm and a weight of 381.9g) with a few recent flaking scars and some rounding through water-rolling. The butt is narrow and moderately straight (with a width of 24mm). Both sides are convex, reaching their widest position (of 58.7mm) close the blade edge (46mm from the edge). The widest point is also close to the point of maximum thickness of the axe (at 31.0mm, 54mm from the blade edge). Both faces are convex across both their lengths and widths, with remnants of partially ground…
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-66C439
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin Short Cross penny, Class 1C (1185-9, during the reign of Henry II) Raul, London 1.38g
Created on: Tuesday 21st October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-669D7B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy coin Spain, Philip IV (1621-65) copper countermarked four-maravedis, 1655 Possibly an earlier issue of Philip III 3.04g
Created on: Tuesday 21st October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-50A5F5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver coin Elizabeth I (1558-1603) sixpence, London Privy mark: coronet and dated 1567 0.93g, incomplete and corroded
Created on: Monday 20th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-4D06DB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver coin Elizabeth I (1558-1603) sixpence, London Privy mark: Acorn & dated 1573 2.68g, worn & a little clipped
Created on: Monday 20th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-4CE946
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin Fragment of a penny of an Edward, c. 14th century; otherwise uncertain
Created on: Monday 20th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-4FD8AE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy hooked mount probably from furniture or similar The mount is of two-piece construction and is complete but the hook is now in two pieces (with a weight of 15.8g). The back-plate (with a length of 62.8mm, a maximum width of 24.6mm and a thickness of 1.9mm) has a trefoil terminal at the top with a knop at the apex and is rounded at its base with concave sides. The plate was attached using two countersunk holes (of 4.6mm and 5.0mm diameter) near each end. The hook is separate and is joined with a square mortise before a collar at the base of the hook (giving…
Created on: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 8th October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-2995AA
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 60.4m m and a weight of 28.7g). The bridle fitting comprises two loops at a perpendicular axis to each other, positioned each end of the bar. The smaller loop was near circular (with a width of 14.4mm and internal diameter of 6.4mm) but is now eroded and open at the rear, probably through wear. There are th…
Created on: Monday 6th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2017
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Record ID: DOR-BCD1F5
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy spoon. The spoon bowl is fig-shaped, and crescentic in profile. Projecting from the upper edge of the bowl is a remnant of the faceted, hexagonal sectioned stem which ends in a v shaped point where it joins the back of the bowl.. There is an indistinct maker's mark set slightly to the left on the upper part of the bowl. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1550 - 1699 Dimensions: 57.61 mm x 27.21 mm x 3.41 mm Weight: 5.96 g Helen Geake (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide Version 1.1 p. 76) comments that spoons with maker's marks date to the second half of the 16…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C84340
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of North Devon Gravel-tempered ware. The fragment includes part of the base of a bread platter. The fabric is oxidised on the exterior of the vessel and reduced to its interior. The coarse components include rounded/sub-rounded quartz inclusions (1mm-4mm), sandstone inclusions (up to 4.5mm) and inclusion of tiny (max 1mm) ceramic pellets. The interior of the vessel is glazed, green in colour with the exterior being unglazed.
Created on: Friday 23rd March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 18th September 2013
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Record ID: WAW-9DD4F0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremily worn bent silver late Medieval or Post-medieval coin of uncertain ruler and mint.
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A5C6B7
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead alloy pilgrim's badge, probably of 15th century date The pilgrim badge depicts the bust of Saint Thomas Becket and is complete with some peripheral damage (with a length of 61.0mm and a weight of 7.0g). Thomas is depicted wearing a mitre with a cross patée at the apex. The mitre is decorated with a ring-and-dot motif in cast relief and the front has a vertical panel containing saltire crosses with pellets between the arms and a ring-and-dot between crosses. Thomas is depicted full-face with his hair flanking the sides of his face, which has bent behind on one …
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-924E02
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorative copper alloy terminal or handle of uncertain date, possibly post medieval The item is part of a composite object (with a length of 35.9mm and a weight of 8.4g). The object is hollow and contains remnants of a shaft, probably of wood. The mouth is now distorted and closed (with a length of 14.2mm and a compressed thickness of 4.2mm). The object then narrows before flaring out at the rounded and thickened end (with a maximum thickness of 10.6mm). The object has a corroded perforation on one side and one face has a decorative incised border, now worn. The surface is dark grey…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-923241
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a Roman Copper alloy bow brooch of Crossbow type and of 3rd to 4th century date The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the crossbow and top of the bow only (with a surviving overall length of 20.4mm and a weight of 14.3g). The corrosion and encrustation of the surface makes it difficult to identify features, although there is a suggestion of a corroded and filled slot at the rear of the head. The slot would have accommodated a hinged pin. The crossbar is distorted (with a length of 52.2mm) and has circular sectioned arms (with a maximum diameter of 6.2mm and a minimum dia…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9217D6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (Late Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of 11th century date The stirrup-strap mount is of Williams' (1997, p 89-91) Class B, Type 2 and Group 3; and is incomplete, missing the apex (with a surviving length of 34.8mm and a weight of 13.9g). The mount is decorated with openwork and cast relief depicting a heavily-debased head or mask with flanking beasts. The mount has broken across two perforations below the apex and presumably beneath a fixing point (Where it has a width of 24.9mm) before widening (to produce a maximum width of 32.4mm). There are raised ro…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Last updated: Friday 4th August 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6EA0D6
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy harness fitting or terret of strap-mounted type of 1st or 2nd century AD date. The terret is of simple, double-looped form (strap-mounted) and is complete, but eroded (with an overall length of 41.5mm and a weight of 21.2g). The rein loop is oval (with an external width of 36.5mm and an internal width of 28.2mm and internal height of 24.7mm). The loop is of oval section near the base, becoming circular and thinning at the apex (with a maximum diameter of 6.9mm and minimum diameter of 1.8mm). It is unclear whether the loop has narrowed because of wear through rubbin…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6E70E3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-end, probably of later 13th to mid 15th century date The strap-end is of sheet metal with a separate forked spacer type and is incomplete, missing one of the sheet plates (with a length of 59.7mm and a weight of 7.7g). The strap-end is widest and thickest near the attachment end (where it has a width of 18.4mm and a thickness of 4.12mm). The sides are straight and converge slightly towards the outside edge (with a width of 16.7mm and a thickness of 3.2mm). The outside edge is concave and is decorated with an open aperture (4.5mm diameter) cutting the edge.…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st July 2011
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