Record ID: NMGW-938D1F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hill type, cf Mackreth 2011, CD PH 4.i1. Plate 47, and of 120-240 AD. The cast brooch is heavily-corroded and incomplete missing the leg and pin and is a comparatively small example (with a surviving length of 26.0mm. a surviving depth of 13.3mm and a weight of 2.9g). The copper alloy spring is secured between lateral lugs, around a copper alloy axis bar. The chord is tensioned by a hook at the head. There is the suggestion of vertical grooves on the short wings (with a width of 14.2mm and a diameter of 5.5mm). The square-sectioned head (4.7m…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-49C102
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval to Post-medieval copper alloy decorated plate probably of 11th or 12th century date. The flat plate is fragmentary, with an intact top edge but with all other edges broken in antiquity (with a surviving length of 31.6mm, a surviving width of 21.4mm and a weight of 3.8g). The late has a uniform thickness (of 1.2mm) and the rear of the plate is not decorated. The surviving part of the top edge (24.2mm long) is undamaged and has an outer-grooved border, inside of which is a decorated strip within a border. The strip has a symmetrical device of a stylised dolphin'…
Created on: Monday 14th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-49A80B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval silver coin Fragment of a penny of Charles I (1625-49), London 0.27g, damaged
Created on: Monday 14th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 14th October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-499A88
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval silver coin James I (1603-25) half groat, London Probably second coinage (1604-19) but privy marks illegible 0.52g, worn and corroded
Created on: Monday 14th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 14th October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-497B2B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver coin Edward II (1307-27) penny, Canterbury Class 10cf5 (c. 1309-10) 0.78g, chipped and damaged
Created on: Monday 14th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 14th October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-442461
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Headstud variant type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The cast brooch is incomplete, missing the pin, much of the catch-plate and the chain-loop (with a surviving length of 38.5mm, a depth of 16.2mm and a weight of 6.5g). The pin was hinged within tubular wings (of 5mm diameter and 13.1mm wide) The fronts of the wings are angled towards the bow and has vertical ribs, as is sometimes seen on Headstud and allied types. Above the head is a damaged, integral chain-loop. The bow projects forward from the head, before a near-perpendicular bend. The top …
Created on: Monday 14th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 21st October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-43FF21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Headstud Variant type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The cast brooch is near-complete, missing the chain-loop but distorted (with a surviving distorted length of 53.4mm, a distorted depth of 14.1mm and a weight of 7.0g). The pin is hinged within a semi-tubular arrangement behind the wings (with a width of 18.1mm and a surviving length of 7.2mm). There is a stub at the apex, possibly remnants of an integral chain-loop. There is no surviving decoration on the fronts of the wings. The bow is of flat-section, with straight sides, gradually converging…
Created on: Monday 14th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 21st October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-CA5AD1
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Late medieval to post medieval copper alloy purse bar probably of 16th century date The purse is represented by the loop and the bar and is heavily-corroded (with a weight of 32.0g) and is of Ward Perkins (1940, p 168)[1] Type B2. The loop is oval, with near-parallel sides (with an overall length of 19mm and a width of 9.0mm, 15.4mm x 6.2mm internal). The loop has a globular, sub-spherical fitting each side of the central block. The shank has been peened over the basal globular fitting (of 8.9mm diameter) to secure it. The central block is oval (17.7mm wide, 13.6mm high and 14.6mm …
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 8th October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-B1B007
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Trumpet type and 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, missing the spring and leg (with a surviving length of 29.6mm, a surviving depth of 17.6mm and a weight of 7.5g). The missing spring was secured within a perforated single lug at the rear of the head. The trumpet head is D-shaped to sub-triangular (10.3mm wide and 10.7mm high) with no evidence for a chain-loop or plate on the head. There is a flat border around the sub-triangular bow at the head. The upper bow narrows towards the button on the mid-bow. The button is corroded bu…
Created on: Monday 7th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 7th October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-957196
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
One hundred and eighteen Roman copper-alloy coins, principally from the first half of the 4th century A.D. (see appended list). These may be summarised as follows: Late third century, 2; House of Constantine I; pre-330, 7; 330-35, 79; 335-40, 19; 340-8, 4; 348-50, 2; uncertain, 5. The coins are all of copper alloys containing less than ten per cent of silver by weight. A series of finds from the same general area, comprising pottery and metalwork, was submitted for examination as potentially originally associated with the coins: see reports by Peter Webster and Evan Chapman, attache…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-4BC96E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Small annular decorative silver brooch. The frame is decorated with beading in the form of enlarged filigree. There is no restriction in the frame for the pin which has a flat plain shaft and wrap around head. External diameter 215.4 x 15mm; inner diameter 13 x 12.4mm; maximum frame thickness 1.4mm; weight 0.96g. Surviving pin length 11mm; thickness 1.4mm (some of shaft and head missing). The surviving pin is in three fragments (recent breaks, associated with discovery). In terms of size and design, the brooch is of thirteenth- to mid-fourteenth-century form.
Created on: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-4B4EDF
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is a small closed thimble made of silver sheet, with the separate crown soldered to the main body. It is complete, although damaged with horizontal, concentric bands of uniformly executed annulets on the external surface and the same annulet pattern on the crown, set in lines. The rim is lipped with a single band of beading directly above. Near the base on one side is a small, plain, sub-rectangular panel or cartouche with the crudely engraved initials 'EW' in neat serif Roman capitals and a small makers mark bearing the initials WC within a shield. The thimble has…
Created on: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-340E0E
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver gilt dress-hook in the form of an openwork lozenge, embellished with small cast pellets on the front face, and larger knobs terminating the outer angles. A quatrefoil has been riveted to the centre of the design, which also has a form of two-strand interlace (resembling chain links). On the reverse of the lozenge is a plain bar loop, which has a circular cross-section. Gilding may become apparent on conservation. The end of the hook is missing. Dimensions: Overall length 36.3mm; maximum width 25.1mm; height of lozenge 26.7mm; thickness including pellets 3.5mm;…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-32905B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description Silver gilt posy ring, very worn on outside but probably once gilt all over. The broad hoop has a plain outer surface, and a flattened D cross-section. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: FEARE + GOD + ONLY, in Roman capitals. Internal hoop diameter 19 mm; external hoop diameter 22.7 X 22.5mm; band width 5.4 mm; band T. 1.5mm; weight 4.77g.
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Saturday 29th February 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-30ACA3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The two silver items are both fragmentary: Fragment 1: a small rectangular piece of hack-silver, cut from a silver vessel. All four edges have been cut, and there is a hesitant transverse cut running inside one of the longer edges. Both faces of the silver are plain, and the fragment is flat. Maximum length 14mm x width 9.1mm x thickness 2.6mm. Weight 2.27g. Fragment 2: small 'pie-slice' fragment from a circular lid or vessel rim, with a plain bevelled edge. The surviving rim diameter can be estimated at about 9-10cm. Maximum length 15.6mm x width 16.45 x maximum thickness…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-47E80B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin A contemporary copy of a William I (1066-87) penny. Uncertain mint and moneyer. cf. BMC 6, North 846, sword type (1079-82) but with a crude bust and the sword to the right 18.5mm - 18.7mm diam.; 0.5mm thick; 1.26g Martin Allen says of the coin: A contemporary imitation, probably produced in south Wales or the Welsh March (cf. Edward Besly, BNJ 86 (2016), p. 148 and Pl. 24, no. 197). I would read the inscriptions as follows: Obv. +IMII+D[R?]I+II Rev. +DVNI+I[ ]IIID
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-B1A80D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver coin Aethelraed II penny CRVX type BMC iii a, North 770 (c. 991-7) [ M].OGI[ ] Uncertain moneyer; uncertain mint (possible mints: Gloucester [GL--], Ilchester [GIFELSCT] or Ipswich [GIPESWIC]) 0.70g, incomplete and in two fragments
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-DAB2C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver coin PENNY OF ÆTHELSTAN I OF EAST ANGLIA (c.827 - c.845) Obv. +EDELZTANREX; diademed bust r.; 'neck' formed by a single row of six pellets, chin and mouth by single pellets Rev. +Mo.N | MONE | T:.A in three lines, separated by horizontal lines of pellets with hooked ends, the text of the middle line inverted. (The letter 'N' appears throughout as 'H'.) Weight: 1.27g; Die-axis: 315º approx.. Portrait type, c.827-30; North 437 var., cf. BMC 5; Naismith E31.1c. The coin appears to be from the same obverse die as Naismith E31.1c (recorded and illus…
Created on: Friday 11th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-6719BC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy ring of flattened D cross-section, and slightly mishapen. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text Fear God love me in italic script, preceded with a small rectangular hall mark with the initials AP. The ascenders on the d of the text turn to the left, ending in a small loop. The ascenders on the 'l' turn to right, ending in a small loop. These features can be seen in early eighteenth-century writing guides, such as George Shelley's Penna Volans, after ye English, French & Dutch Way, of c. 1710, and examples of business writing of about 1711 (Whalley 1980, 252-3…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-63CDFB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Ninety-one Roman denarii, principally of the first and second centuries A.D. As found the coins are in differing conditions, some fresh, some encrusted with corrosion products, perhaps the result of contact with vegetable matter in the form of grass which appears to have been deliberately included within the container of the coins. A detailed study must therefore await conservation of the coins. The coins were contained within the remains of a pottery vessel The latest coin in the hoard is a denarius of Marcus Aurelius, dating to his eighteenth tribunician year, or A.D. 163-4. T…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2016
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