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: IARCW-63DAE33B1D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
A Sestertius of Clodius Albinus as Caesar (193-195), dating to AD 194-5 (Reece Period 10), Reverse: FORT REDVCI COS II S C, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder on globe and cornucopiae; wheel under seat. Mint of Rome. Reference: as RIC IV Clodius Albinus, p. 52, no. 53. The original record states a contemporary copy, but probably in error.
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cardiff', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-8BFB01
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
A late medieval to post-medieval copper-alloy knife handle, probably of 16th-century date or slightly earlier. The knife is of scale-tang type, with two copper-alloy scale plates riveted to the integral iron tang. The iron blade of the knife has broken towards its start. No shoulder plate is present between the tang and blade. The handle was attached by three copper-alloy rivets spaced equally along its median length. The handle was decorated with floral mouldings, although little of the design survives. The end cap is expanded, flaring out compared to the scale plates, and is decorat…
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2006
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-34C32C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Descriptions Socketed axe fragment Dimensions: surviving length 24.5mm; surviving width 50.8mm; width at break 42.0mm; thickness at break 12mm; weight 54.8g. This is the lower blade and cutting edge of a socketed axe, broken across the internal socket aperture in antiquity. The cutting edge is worn and damaged so the original edge no longer survives, but curved shape and the curved expanding nature of the sides suggest it may have originally possessed slightly flared tips. The incomplete nature of this axe means it cannot be definitely assigned a type. The break has occ…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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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-4811C9
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age dirk of Penard or Wallington metalworking Industry, dated to c. 1300 - 1000BC The cast dirk is complete but now distorted across the mid blade (with a distorted length of 282mm, a straightened length of approximately 288mm and a weight of 94.4g). The butt is flat-topped, slightly angled (23.0mm wide and 1.8mm thick). There are two rivet notches beneath the butt and on the sides (of 8.5mm diameter, with their midpoints 9.6mm beneath the butt and giving a minimum butt width of 17.5mm). There is no clear hilt mark but there is the suggestion of a curving mark from the …
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: HESH-C7C1EC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver short cross penny of John (AD 1199-1216) struck by Abel at the mint in London - most probably class 6c1 (1215-1216) North: 976/1
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gower', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-733315
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn half groat of Elizabeth I - inital mark crescent: 1587-1590
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gower', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-739092
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and bent half groat of Charles I
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gower', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-73A53E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily worn, burnt cracked and distorted groat of Henry VIII
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gower', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-73C0C9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily polished and clipped silver hallf groat possibly of Elizabeth I
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gower', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-73DF9D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) struck at the tower of London, Initial Mark: unclear
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gower', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-C5EF28
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver groat of Mary (1553-1554) North 1973
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gower', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-C6E050
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blade fragment from either a spear or possibly a rapier of middle-late bronze age date (c. 1450 - 800 BC). The blade is relatively undiagnostic and is most likely from a spear. It is triangular in plan with a lentoid cross section across the blade. Remains of a high mi-rib is present and this would have given strength to the blade when used. The fragment has been rolled in the ploughsoil and the long edges have been removed. It is possible that across the break on the lower edge the remains of a slight depression can be seen - this is possibly the top of the socket (a naturally weak p…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reynoldston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-C78EB7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy post medieval belt hook / strap fitting AD 1450 - 1650. The plate is heavily corroded and eroded and much detail has been lost. The strap fitting is broadly triangular in form - from the lower edge projects a blunt ended hook which has been cast in one piece and rolled to shape its current form. The external edges of the plate of the mount are segmented with a series of small rounded knop-like projections. At the upper edge is a single D shaped pierced hole (6.2,, x 3.3mm). From the upper edge a small tab like projection extends - this may have formed another sligh…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Port Eynon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-7396C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hill / T-shaped type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head and upper-bow only (with a surviving length of 21.5mm, a surviving depth of 8.9mm and a weight of 3.4g). The brooch employed a spring mechanism, now lost secured between lateral lugs, now truncated (with a width of 16.9mm) with the chord tensioned by a hook at the head. The bow is of D-shaped section at the head (with a width of 7.9mm and a thickness of 3.1mm) and has straight sides, gradually converging towards the break. The surface h…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
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Record ID: HESH-82BDFB
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy coin weight of probable 15th century - late medieval date (1412-1464). The coin weight was probably used to weigh a full gold noble. It is circular in plan having been abraded in the ploughsoil . The front face of the weight has a single mast ship with a single lis (probably) to the left of the mast and a lion passant to the right. There are no marks on the hull. The reverse is plain and undecorated. The edges of the flan are angular suggesting it had been trimmed to weight during use. The weight is a mid green colour with an even well preserved patina which is laminati…
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swansea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-831FEE
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy button of probable late medieval or post medieval date (1400-1700). The artefact is sub-circular in plan, and semi-circular (D shaped) in cross-section with the remains of a central rectangular lug on the rear. The front face of the button is domed and is decorated by a series of raised cast linear and circular lines. It has a circular cast central circle which is surmounted by a pellet shaped boss. The circlet is enclosed by curvi-linear lines forming a tressure of arches; the external edge is decorated by a ring of rectangular shaped pellets. The reverse of the butto…
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swansea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-824781
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very small fragment of cast lead alloy, most probably from the base of a pilgrims ampulla of medieval date (AD 1200-1450). The fragment is irregular in plan and profile. It comprises a small section of the upper face and lower curved edge of the artefact. The face is decorated with curvilinear ribs whose design extends onto the external edge and represents the shell of St James - Patron Saint of Pilgrims. The opposite face is lost. The artefact is a mid-white colour with an abraded and corroded surface patina. A direct parallel has not been found due to the small size of the piece a…
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swansea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-8290F8
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy linch pin terminal of later Iron Age or early Roman date, -150 BC - AD 150. The linch pin terminal is a tapered cylindrical shape being circular in cross section - in broad terms it can be described as 'vase' shaped. The base of the terminal is a disc that supports the body of the terminal on its upper face while its lower face reveals the corroded remains of the copper alloy projection being broken flush to the base. Despite the corrosion, it is clear that the shaft was oval in section rather than square or rectangular. The body of terminal tapers in a…
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swansea', grid reference and parish protected.