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Record ID: NMGW-5BF8D6
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pilgrim’s ampulla of 14th to early 16th century date
The ampulla is near-complete, missing only a small section of the mouth rim. The ampulla has a length of 53.4mm and a weight of 75.5g. The mouth is open and has a width of 27.4mm. The ampulla has a maximum thickness at the open mouth of 14.3mm. The neck has straight sides converging towards the body. Both sub-triangular loops are present and one loop has been compressed against the neck and the loop is not perforated. It is not whether the distorted loop is perforated. The neck is plain. Both faces carry similar moti…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMGW-10DBB2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Henry VI (1422-61) groat, Calais; annulets issue, 1422-7 North 1424.
Created on: Friday 4th March 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CA7087
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric retouched flint flake
The flake has two areas of cortex surviving on corners. The retouch is crude and confined to two of the tree edges. The grey brown flint is unpatinated
Created on: Monday 6th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E35A11
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin
Short Cross penny; Class 7c (Henry III) c. 1237-42
London, Nicole
1.00g, clipped
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: PUBLIC-F51026
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval silver coin
James I (1603-25) half groat, London
Second coinage, 1604-19; privy mark - probably coronet (1607-9)
Created on: Monday 20th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: PUBLIC-096647
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper alloy cup-headed pin
The pin is complete (with a distorted length of 237mm, a straightened length of approximately 270mm and a weight of 32.7g). The head has a slightly oval mouth (13.4mm - 14.3mm external diameter, 12mm internal diameter and 3mm deep). The sides of the cup-head are straight and parallel before curving sharply to the shaft. The interior of the cup-head contains no discernible decoration and is filled with corrosion. The pin shaft is of circular section and has a prominent swelling beneath the head (positioned 20mm beneath the head and producin…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Last updated: Friday 15th July 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0A5C65
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy looped fitting, probably from a vessel of uncertain date.
The loop is cast and is complete (with an overall length of 31.2mm and a weight of 25.2g). The loop is oval (with a height of 26.4mm and a width of 30.6mm; 13.9mm x 17.4mm internal) and is comparatively substantial with a sub-oval section (7.9mm wide and 6.7mm thick). Wear facets are now difficult to discern on the interior of the loop. The loop was attached by an integral rivet, which has been peened-over on the face. The inside end of the rivet also has a linear incised line, perpendicular to the axis of the lo…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0A9B73
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tin-lead alloy pilgrim souvenir, probably of 14th to 15th century date
The pilgrim souvenir is fragmentary, broken on all sides (with a surviving length of 23.5mm, a maximum surviving width of 17.4mm, a thickness of 1.2-1.7mm and a weight of 2.3g). The fragment depicts a female figure within a rectangular openwork frame. The figure's face is cast in relief and she is wearing a beaded headdress and is bearing her breasts. The figure is flanked on both sides with near vertical ribbing, possibly representing hair or part of the headdress. The rear has a vertical lug, now folde…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0AACF8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy belt mount probably dating to the later half of the 14th century.
The belt mount is complete and is of bar-mount form and has two smaller terminal lobes, flanking a central lobe (with a length of 23.9mm and a weight of 1.9g). The two smaller terminal lobes (5.1 & 5.3mm wide and 2.3 & 2.6mm deep) are perforated to take separate attachment rivets for securing the mount. The rear of the terminal lobes is flat. One of the copper alloy attachment rivets remains in place (with a length of 3.7mm and a diameter of 1.5mm). The central domed lobe (with a width of 12.5mm …
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0ABF52
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy belt mount probably of late medieval date
The mount is complete and is of lozenge form (with a length of 21.7mm, a width of 16.1mm an overall depth of 8.0mm and a weight of 3.4g). The mount is decorated with a cross in cast relief; between the arms of the cross are triangles, incorporating trefoils or pellets along the sides running parallel with the edges. At the centre is a circular pellet. The rear of the mount is hollowed. The mount was attached by two integral pins positioned near the top and bottom. Traces of gilding survives in recessed areas and elsewhe…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-19F764
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy trade weight
English one-ounce weight; crowned 'C' mark for Charles I (1625-49) or Charles II (1660-85). Sword mark for london.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C883C5
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post medieval copper alloy looped fitting
The fitting is complete (with a length of 25.2mm, a depth of 8.0mm, a thickness of 1.5mm and a weight of 2.2g). The fitting resembles a fish shape with a sub-triangular terminal (giving the fitting a maximum width of 12.3mm) and is gently convex across its width. On the rear (near the pointed end) is an integral, circular sectioned loop (8.2mm wide, 1.8mm diameter and 6.4mm high) defining a circular aperture (4.4mm diameter). Little of the original surface survives on the fitting and no applied decoration is discernible. The s…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: PUBLIC-6C62F1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix, probably of late 13th or 14th century date
The seal matrix is near complete, with some peripheral damage to the die (with a length of 17.6mm and a weight of 4.5g). The handle has a suspension loop (2.8mm internal diameter) before a collar molding leading to the hexagonally faceted stem, with sides diverging towards the seal die. The die is circular (with a diameter of 18.4mm) and has suffered peripheral loss. The central device is heraldic and depicts a shield with an intersecting horizontal band (fess), the band contains three crosses with floriat…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D77F20
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medievall tin alloy (pewter) spoon, probably of 16th century date. The spoon is incomplete, missing part of the bowl and has a slightly distorted stem (with a length of 155.4mm and a weight of 33.9g). The terminal knop is of flattened spherical form with a protruding nipple. The knop is decorated with a whirligig device in cast relief. The rear of the knop may also have been decorated with a similar motif but is now worn. There is a rib moulding at the top of the stem, before the knop. The stem is of sub-hexagonal section (5mm wide and 4mm thick), becoming D-shaped near the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 30th April 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D7ADE2
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy decorative knife fitting (end stop) probably of late 16th or 17th century date
The fitting is complete (with a length of 10.6mm, a thickness of 6.1mm and a weight of 4.6g). The underside has a V-shaped groove to accommodate the top of the knife tang (2.8mm deep). The fitting is of bifid form, with a curving arm projecting from each side (giving a width of 19.1mm) and thinning to the terminals. The terminals are enhanced with grooves. The base of the fitting also has decorative grooves near the base. The knife fitting is unpatinated with a golden-bronze su…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6DA0F3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy button of uncertain date, probably medieval or early Post Medieval
The button is complete (with an overall depth of 12.1mm and a weight of 14.6g). The head is sub-circular (with a diameter of 28.6mm - 29.6mm and 5mm thick). The face is slightly convex and is decorated with three cast concentric ribs around a central knop. The underside has a comparatively heavy attachment loop (6.8mm thick, 13.7mm long and 6.8mm high) of D-shaped section. The perforation (3.3mm diameter) has been cast by inserting a rod into the mold, which has formed the parallel ribs, or guides running i…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st July 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6E4763
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, probably of 13th or 14th century date
The harness pendant is of two-part form, comprising a frame and swivelling pendant and is near-complete, missing the suspension mount and one terminal (with a length of 47.7mm and a weight of 11.7g). The suspension mount was hinged through a lug (3.1mm thick 6.0mm wide), which has broken through the central perforation (2.8mm diameter). The quatrefoil frame (with a width of 29.2mm) is open and an arm projecting outwards from between each of the four lobes (giving the pendant a maximum width of 34.0mm). The…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
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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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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-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
No spatial data available.
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: NMGW-576054
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Henry, farthing, 1663 BW Devon 28, 0.710g, corroded.
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-8FF741
Object type: TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint assemblage, consisting of 509 pieces including leaf shaped arrowheads, arrowhead roughouts, knives, denticulated scrapers, scrapers, Ecaille Cores, single platform blade cores, multi-directional cores, core, blades, flakes, knapping debitage, natural stones, double platform blade cores, core rejuvination flakes, Natural flints, Awls, Utilized blades, Levallois flake, spall, natural quartz and a discoidal knife
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-743CA6
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy flat axe which thickens towards the middle, with a thin, narrow and originally probably slightly rounded butt and a splayed blade. The edges of both the butt and the blade are damaged, and one face in particular is heavily corroded. Two distinct casting flaws are visible on the relatively uncorroded face of the axe. The sides of the blade more or less evenly curve outwards towards the cutting edge from a point situated slightly over one third of the length of the axe from the butt. The axe is undecorated. Longitudinal stritations visible on the relatively uncorro…
Created on: Thursday 19th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-EF8FC1
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age, Bronze cast-flanged axe whose sides are straight and near parallel, curving outwards markedly near the blade, giving a splayed blade. The artefact has a flat shaped butt end, which tapers in section. Unusually, the butt end of the axe is pierced by a circular hole (6mm in diameter). This was made with care in antiquity, possibly by drilling into the metal with a circular implement from each side of the artefact, the hole breaking through the middle (as suggested by its slightly hourglass shaped profile). The hole is slightly offset from the centre of the butt, and…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-5939E4
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Palaeolithic Levallois flake
The flake is struck with a hard hammer on a piece of pale grey flint that is developing a yellow patina over areas of its surface. The flake has a plain striking platform and there are traces of cortex surviving on the dorsal surface. The flake edges are abraded, rolled and slightly chipped.
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-9AD118
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint scraper which is 28.6mm in length, 31.6mm in width, 8.9mm in thickness and 6.9g in weight.
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9B8D57
Object type: FLAKE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint utilized flake with a length of 50.9mm, a width of 67.8mm, a thickness of 8.5mm and a weight of 23.6g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Friday 7th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9E4ED4
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Mesolithic Flint Microlith, obliquely blunted point form, measuring 20.8mm length, 10.5mm width, 3.5mm thickness and weighing 6.8g
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9E5977
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint knife measuring 53mm length, 18.8mm width, 6.2mm thickness and weighing 6.8g
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9E6215
Object type: KNIFE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint knife fragment measuring 28.2mm length, 15.9mm width, 3.1mm thickness and weighing 1.8mm
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9E6D56
Object type: BLADE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint Utilized blade measuring 37.8mm length, 17.5mm width, 4.7mm thickness and weighing 3.6g
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9E79E5
Object type: BLADE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint Retouched blade measuring 26.2mm length, 9.5mm width, 4.2mm thickness and weighing 1.1g
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9E80A3
Object type: DEBITAGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint knapping debitage
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9E86D2
Object type: FLAKE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint natural
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-C20800
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Near-complete Late Anglo Saxon stirrup strap mount, probably of 11th century date. The stirrup is unusual with a beast's head protruding downwards from the base of the mount (23mm deep). One other example with a protruding head has been recorded from Stoke Hammond, Bucks (Williams D., 1997, no. 383, p84). Features on the head are now difficult to discern, but the cast decoration appears to depict a snarling snout with four sharp teeth protruding from the underside. The panel is concave with a surviving height of 32.4mm and parallel sides with a width of 32.6mm. The panel is decorated …
Created on: Monday 7th March 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-979C85
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Short Cross penny
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-5D65D2
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete prick spur. One arm is complete the other is broken close to the junction with the shank. Two dome headed rivets remain in the terminals of the surviving arm. The spur has a conical pick. The arm and shank are decorated in a similar style with panels containing five ridges with panels of engraved cross-hatching. Alternating D-sectioned arm. Each face of the prick are decorated with engraved lines. There is an outer border enclosing a pair of long engraved lines, which continue to the centre. Much gilding survives on the prick (only two faces have gilding surviving). The pric…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-5AAB02
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rejuvenation blade.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMGW-195EF8
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast flat disc in white metal or tin-lead alloy. The disc has cast decoration on one face depicting a clock face. The face has a raised beaded border before a plain section and the central clock face, consisting of roman numerals set between concentric circles. The numerals are divided by a single raised pellet. Inside the face is another beaded circle in addition to the cast hands pointing to ‘six o’clock’. The rear of the disc is plain and a fragment of the disc is missing.
The disc is likely to be from a toy pocket watch for a child and probably dates from the late 18th or …
Created on: Wednesday 24th March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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