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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.