Record ID: NMGW-FEEBD1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
1.0 Discovery & reporting A Late Bronze Age hoard comprising a bronze socketed axe fragment and a bronze sword blade fragment was discovered on 2nd April 2021 by Peter Griffiths (finder of the axe) and Luke Harris (finder of the sword blade) while metal-detecting on a field under improved pasture in Llanover Community, Monmouthshire. The two artefacts were reported as being found within 60cm (2 feet) of each other, each at depths of 25cm (10 inches). Full details of the findspot (NGR) and the addresses of the finders and the landowner are provided on the Treasure Receipt form for…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanover Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-CEF428
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification A complete silver thimble of apparent one-piece construction (no visible join or solder line). The body and crown are decorated with regular repeated indentations, possibly the result of knurling during manufacture. There is a wide band of moulded floral/ scrolled decoration, worn in parts, on the lower portion of the body, interrupted by a bearded moustachioed face (front facing, upside down). At the front of the thimble is a plain rectangular panel or cartouche, containing engraved seriffed initials ‘MN’ in Roman capitals, upside down. Th…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mathern Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-37EC48
Object type: ANNULAR BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The reported object is a small annular brooch. The silver frame is of circular cross-section. One half of one face is decorated with wide niello-inlaid transverse grooves, with punched annulets between the niello bands; the other half of the front and the back are plain. The two sides of the wrap-around head, which is slightly wider than the pin shank, overlap at the top; the head swivels freely on the frame. The raise collar at the junction of pin-had and shank is decorated with three transverse punched grooves. The pin shank is of lozenge-shaped cros…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caerwent Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-93AB65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester Derivative Polden Hill (CD PH CD PH, 4.l.c Plate 49) type and 2nd century AD date. The brooch is missing much of the wings and spring, foot and catchplate with an overall surviving length of 53.5mm and max width of 24.1mm at the wings. The more intact wing is warped by iron corrosion (with a remaining diameter of 9.5mm) from the iron axis bar. The stump of a small backwards-facing hook or perforated lug is preserved on the back of the head would have held the spring chord. The head of the brooch is bulbous and humped cha…
Created on: Monday 7th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-39C896
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near-complete cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of Developed T-shaped type and subclass of Hull type T105-111, T119-120, T122, T126-129, T132, T141-142; Mackreth 2011, CD H 2.a2. no. 2215; Bayley and Butcher 2004, 167, fig. 138. The brooch is mostly intact with an overall length of 44.6mm. The sub-cylindrical wings span 21.4mm in width and are 3.9mm diameter at the ends and widen towards the head (where the dimensions are 6.3mm deep x 5.0mm thick). The wings are decorated with three equidistant incised grooves along the front but do not extent to the top, botto…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-03C661
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative Polden Hill type brooch and of 1st-2nd century AD date. The brooch is missing the pin, foot and most of the catch-plate resulting in an overall length of 47.3mm. The wings are oval in section and span a width of 26.1mm and terminate in raised moulded wing caps (8.9mm x 9.9mm) flanked by small moulded and incised ribs. The same mouldings are repeated in the centre of each wing. The reverse of the wings are open to the spring mechanism which is held by a central axis bar perforating the wing caps (the wings measure 8.9mm x 7.9mm…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-DD9F2A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill CD PH 4.i1 type (c.AD 120-240). The brooch consists of the head with wings and bow, with an overall surviving length of 50.8mm. The spring, pin, catch-plate and most of the foot are missing in old damage. The semi-cylindrical wings are mostly complete with a total width of 21.5mm (diameter 6.4mm). The wing terminals are slightly damaged but traces of a raised stop-ridge preserve at either end (likely would have been similar to a near-parallel brooch illustrated in Hattatt 2000: 300 fig.150 no.380). The w…
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-ECDADB
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy side-looped spearhead of Middle Bronze Age date. Probably of Davis’ (2012) Group 5 A (Wide Blade) of the Acton Park metalworking phase (1550-1400 BC). At its mouth, the socket has a diameter of 2mm and an aperture diameter of 17.4mm, as well as an aperture depth greater than 43mm (the very end of the shaft aperture is still filled by soil to an unknown depth). Both side loops are present but damaged, sited 14.4mm to 12.7mm above the socket mouth, measuring 17.2mm long by 6.4mm wide and 17.7mm long by 5.6mm wide respectively. The shape of the loop …
Created on: Monday 24th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: GLO-9871DE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification Gold ring in the form of a plain narrow band of flattened D cross section. The inner face is engraved with legend: Love & live happy in italics. The hoop has an external diameter of 19.7mm; width 3mm; thickness 1mm; weight 2.37g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. It is complete. To judge from its colour and weight, and visual comparison with other gold rings and brooches in the collections of the Department of History & Archaeology, the item is gold (over 10%). Conclusions The form and lettering of the ring are cons…
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-5B9CCA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of T-shaped type and of 1st-2nd century AD date. The brooch is comprised of the wings, head, bow and catchplate with most of the hinged pin lost to old damage. The wings are short, undecorated and cylindrical with a total width of 18.8mm and diameter of 4.1mm. The central axis bar perforates the wings and is made of iron. A fragment of the copper alloy hinge preserves in the pin slot. The head is squared off from the wings and begins in a moulded chevron (7.6mm wide). The bow is sub-oval in section, plain and undecorated and gently tapers t…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A948C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Langton down brooch of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date (c. 25-60 AD). The brooch is likely of Mackreth Type LD 3a (2011, Pg.34, plate 20, No 6484). The brooch consists of the intact bow with rounded foot, wings and spring. The pin has broken off just as it leaves the spring mechanism, and the openwork catchplate is evident only as two broken sheet stubs projecting from the back of the bow. The wings are nearly cylindrical and uneven, having been hammered thin and worked almost all the way around the top and bottom of the spring, which is still held…
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-95626A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near-complete cast copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch of Chester Type variant dating to the late 1st-2nd century BC. The head of the brooch is sub-oval in plan with a flat border and measures 11.7mm wide. A small flat knop (4.1mm wide, 1.4mm thick) projects from the top of the head giving an overall head height of 13.3mm. The head is flat on the back with a spring and a broken pin coiled around a copper alloy axis bar secured by a D-shaped lug. The remaining pin is 34.0mm in length. The upper bow is sub-oval in plan and undecorated, projecting from the front of the head and tapering b…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-94E626
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch of Chester variant dating to the late 1st-2nd century AD. The head is oval in plan and measures 9.7mm wide and 9.0mm high. The head is flat on the reverse, missing the spring and pin, with a singe D-shaped lug containing the remains of a spring or pin (lug is 6.5mm high and 6.7mm wide with the spring fragment). The bow protrudes outwards from the head in a sub-oval flange and is flat on the reverse. A sub-pentagonal button (8.3mm wide, 5.5mm high) is moulded between two sets of transverse ribs above and below the button. The leg tape…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-A89992
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper- alloy finger-ring with keeled shoulders, probably of 3rd century date The cast finger-ring is fragmentary, missing most of the band, one shoulder and the bezel surviving (with a surviving width of 18.5mm. a surviving height of 10.1mm and a weight of 2.8g). The damaged shoulder is expanded (with a width of 10.1mm) and would have narrowed to the band (with a minimum width of 6mm). The shoulders are decorated with incised chevrons. The circular bezel (10.8mm diameter) is slightly raised (1.3mm high and 2.5mm thick) and has no decoration now discernible. The rear of the…
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A7F0B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Polden Hill Type of 5.b4 and of late 1st or 2nd century AD date. The brooch is fragmentary, missing the leg and spring (with a surviving length of 28.0mm, a surviving depth of 12.4mm and a weight of 9.0g). The missing spring was secured behind comparatively long wings, now damaged (with a width of 34.2mm and a length of 6.2mm). It is likely that the spring was secured with a ‘Polden Hill’ type arrangement. The fronts of the wings were decorated with vertical ribbing defined by flanking grooves. There is the suggestion of a recess at the head, sugg…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-2ED342
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head and top of the bow only (with a surviving length of 28.7mm, a surviving depth of 4.4mm and a weight of 10.3g). The brooch is a Polen Hill, and employed a spring mechanism, now lost. The spring was secured between lateral lugs and behind semi-cylindrical wings (with a width of 25.3mm and a diameter of 7.5mm). The wings are damaged and heavily-corroded with no surviving evidence for decoration. The globular head appears to have had curved moulding on the sides (giving a width of 13.2mm) but no other features are now evident. The top of t…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EEFAFA
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of uncertain type but probably South Wales (Stogursey) Type of Ewart Park metalworking Industry, dated to c. 950 – 750BC but possibly of Wilburton-Wallington through to Llyn Fawr Industries, dating to c. 1,150 – 600BC The axehead has been damaged and is incomplete missing its mouth and loop (with a maximum surviving length of 88.9mm and a weight of 232.8g). The break across the axe occurred in antiquity (where the axe had a maximum surviving width and thickness of 43.0mm and 27.6mm respectively, a surviving socket depth of 60.9mm; a face thickness…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EC9AAB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver cut halfpenny of Æthelred II (978–1016), 'Second Hand' type (c.AD 985-91; North 768; BMC iid), moneyer: Beornulf, mint: London (probably). Ref: North 1994: 158. The coin is missing a small fragment from one end. weight: 0.57g
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-9B610B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of indeterminate type probably of Ewart Park metalworking Industry, dated to c. 950 – 750BC but possibly of Wilburton-Wallington through to Llyn Fawr Industries, dating to c. 1,150 – 600BC The axe head is fragmentary missing its upper part and is represented by approximately half of the original (with a maximum surviving length of 56.6mm and a weight (containing sediment) of 143.6g). The break across the axe occurred in antiquity (where the axe had a maximum surviving width and thickness of 42.3mm and 22.3mm respectively). The axe has a sub-rectan…
Created on: Thursday 21st January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C52206
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, probably of Ewart Park Metalworking and of Needham’s Period 7 The cast socketed axe is incomplete, broken in antiquity and is missing the upper part of the body, including the mouth and loop (with a surviving length of 45.5mm and a weight of 51.0g). The axe body is of sub-rectangular section at the break (with dimensions 28.9mm x 16.4mm). The socket is oval sectioned (22.3mm x 12.8mm and 8.5mm deep). The wall thickness is variable, considerably thicker on the sides (at 2.6mm) compared to the faces (at 0.9mm). The sides are straight and near-pa…
Created on: Monday 11th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
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