Record ID: CPAT-B944C6
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone ball approximately 140mm in diameter and weighing around 5lbs (2268g). Pecked appearance, very odd stone, grey with lots of white flecking. Not a local stone. It is too heavy for compressed tarmac I think and too well compressed. Found by a workman building a new prison on the site of a former munitions factory. It was apparently found about 1 metre deep in some very black soil below the more modern brick buildings. The same man also has 2 complete stones and 3 halves, one sounds like its made of iron because he describes casting flanges. (Steve Grenter, WCBC, March 2015). …
Created on: Friday 29th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-B79EC9
Object type: STATUE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One of two limestone (oolitic - Cotswolds ?) carved stone heads found on the surface in the garden of Trederwen House in January 2013 (see also CPAT-B5C050). This head has a flat back and may be a corbel or other architectural fragment. Both are heavily eroded, suggesting some age. (Jeff Spencer, 2013) This figure has the hair neatly held by a band or fillet. Below the fillet the hair terminates in curls. The compact beard has survived in poor condition. If it were used as a corbel head, I would have expected to see clear evidence of a hood-moulding rising from the top surface; ins…
Created on: Friday 29th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-B5C050
Object type: STATUE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One of two limestone (oolitic - Cotswolds ?) carved stone heads found on the surface in the garden of Trederwen House in January 2013 (see also CPAT-B79EC9). This head is of a bearded crowned man carved in the round, presumably coming from a statue. (Jeff Spencer, 2013) The crowned figure is in a satisfactory state of survival to discern its character. The crown has trefoiled flowers in the points of the crown; the drooping moustache, the tight rope-like curls of the beard and short curled hair suggest an early fifteenth-century date. It certainly suggests that it was originally fr…
Created on: Friday 29th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-CE3930
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of thin glass, possibly with a trace of green colour, found on Castle Bank by a local member of the public in 2015. Despite discussion with members of staff at AC/NMW a firm age could not be ascribed. Probably Post Med but could be Roman (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, December 2015).
Created on: Monday 18th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-CCFC12
Object type: MORTARIUM
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small sherd of coarseware, buff-coloured with dark inclusions. Probably from the rim of a Roman mortarium. Found in a mole-hill by a local member of the public in 2015. (Wendy Owen & Jeff Spencer, CPAT, December 2015)
Created on: Monday 18th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-CCBD99
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A long, thin, curved fragment of copper alloy, possibly bent. 'S'-shaped in profile with beading along one edge. Part of the base trim of a larger, composite item such as a piece of furniture, or possibly part of the rim of a metal vessel such as a medieval/post-medieval cooking pot. (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, September 2015)
Created on: Monday 18th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-7899FB
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very small body sherd found during field walking by a member of the public. The fabric is fine grained and hard with a pale grey colour and appears to have an orange/red wash/slip on its surface. It might be medieval or even post-medieval in date (CPAT, November 2015).
Created on: Thursday 14th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-7836AA
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two very small conjoining rim sherds found during field walking by a member of the public. The fabric is gritty with a pale buff/pink colour at the surface but is greyer internally. They might be medieval in date (CPAT, November 2015).
Created on: Thursday 14th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-642D74
Object type: MORTAR (VESSEL)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone mortar, for domestic use in a higher-status dwelling and probably of medieval or early post-medieval date (Nigel Jones, CPAT, August 2015). It is about 9 inches tall and originally had 4 projections (two are broken off), one of those surviving has a groove on it that looks as if it was intended for pouring. It was used by the finder's mother for feeding chickens. Probably limestone (Finder, pers. comm., August 2015).
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2016
Last updated: Friday 21st December 2018
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Record ID: CPAT-2DE692
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large, roughly triangular, flattish fragment of stone with a central hole. Probably a fragment of the upper stone of a rotary hand quern. A smaller hole on the outside edge is reminiscent of the socket for a wooden handle. Found in the Cwmddauddwr hills by the curator of Rhayader Museum in 1992. Only one photograph available for examination by CPAT staff - object confirmed as resembling a quern, but no grinding surface could be seen.
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-2D9064
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A token of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster, of Bersham found in a flower bed in the spring of 1987. (Clifford, R H, 1989, Magazine of the Bangor-on-Dee Local History Society, pp51).
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-2D6BB0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron pot seen in the river bank below Glasbury in the River Wye, near the Hollybush Pub. Heavily corroded, and measuring 12" in diameter. Heavy rim with thick walls. Looked to be all there but possibly fragmented and the base not visible (Davies, R, 2002)
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-2BF589
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman coin in poor condition but likely to be a Flavian As. (Jones, N W, 2014)
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-29AEAD
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight with the remains of a broken iron suspension loop in the top. Slightly wider at the base than the top but mis-shapen. A creamy, light grey-green colour with a crazed and cracked surface, almost all of the original having been lost (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, September 2015).
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-290E84
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two adjoining but abraded rim fragments of a medieval/post-medieval cooking pot, specifically a cauldron or posnet. (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, September 2015)
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-28D56E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of a metal vessel. Thin copper alloy sheet with a piece of iron riveted to it. (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, September 2015)
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-28A411
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Shilling of William III, no further detail currently available. (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, September 2015)
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-18FBA8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sixpence of William III, obverse features first draped bust facing right with inscription GULIELMUS III . DEI . GRA. The 'G' and 'A' of which are partially obscured. The reverse is four crowned cruciform shields featuring the later (Irish) harp and small crowns. The date (1697) is at the top of the coin (12 o'clock position) and the inscription is MAG BR . FRA . ET . HIB . REX. The 'H' of 'HIB' is without a cross stroke. (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, September 2015)
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-18A541
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A biconical lead spindlewhorl, much abraded but with traces of a linear pattern or sunburst effect on the surfaces. The item is 24mm in diameter with a central hole measuring 10mm.
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: CPAT-171421
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4.d., hinged, flat wing ends). It appears to have had a hinged pin (now missing) rather than a spring and pin, the catchplate is also missing. The majority of the original surface is lost, although there are the remains of a raised central rib running the length of the bow, decorated with horizontal lines.
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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