Record ID: WREX-B4FA5B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances and context of discovery The object was discovered by Mr Hughes whilst metal detecting. The object was under pasture at a depth of approximately 6-8 inches. The finder reported that a 1797 silver half penny of George III and a Victorian Penny were found close by but are not considered to be associated with the find. The names and addresses of the finder and landowner are provided on Treasure Act Receipt Form, along with a ten-figure OS grid reference of the findspot. Description and identification (including metal content) A cast, flat silver decorative object, trifol…
Created on: Monday 5th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crafnant', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-B9E031
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy pegged leaf-shaped spearhead dating from the late Middle or Late Bronze Age, probably 1100-800BC. The spearhead has a leaf shaped blade that is lozenge shaped in section. The shaft is broken but is circular in section. The socket is packed with a fibrous material. The surviving original surface has a mid brown patina but is pitted and scratched. The tip of the spearhead is missing and the edge of the leaf-shaped blade are damaged Length: 101.49mm; width at widest point: 32.88mm; thickness of blade: 5.36mm; thickness at the mid-rib: 13.85mm; socket diameter…
Created on: Monday 10th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henryd', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-75C4F7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe of faceted form and of Type Gillespie (follow Schmidt and Burgess 1981, 191f.). The axe is complete, although the blade edge has been lost and the axe has an overall length of 87.6mm and weighs 129.2g. The mouth is oval with an external width of 35.7mm and an external thickness of 33.2mm (internal - 27.8mm x 24.7mm). The socket has a depth of 74mm and becomes sub-rectangular in section c. 25mm from the mouth. The rim has been carefully finished and no evidence of the casting runner stubs survives. The pronounced flaring, trumpet-shaped mout…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-A87A61
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Near complete copper alloy matrix. The matrix is pointed oval in shape and is flat with a pierced lug stemming from a raised central tapered rib. The seal matrix is of an ecclesiastical type. The central motif depicts the Virgin Mary with child at the apex, above a double towered church front with a finial either side of the tower. The base of the motif depicts a kneeling cleric. The inscription on the outside of the matrix is corroded and much of the inscription is now missing. The ‘+’ is legible at the summit of the matrix, the next legible letters are rising from the base, these…
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: GAT-C5BC97
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Looped bronze palstave with some extant damage and in worn condition. The blade is plain and slightly flared. The cutting edge is curved and the blade is a pointed oval shape in cross-section. The u-shaped stop ridge is angular and pronounced. The sides run parallel between the squared butt and the stop ridge. The septum is long in relation to the blade, compared to similar palstaves. The palstave is complete, although the butt has been damaged and the stop ridge has been worn down, particularly on one side. The surface of the palstave is pitted and small air bubbles are v…
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2006
Last updated: Saturday 6th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pen yr Ole Wen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-632296
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy palstave, probably of Type Guilsfield. The palstave is complete and has an overall length of 147.6mm and is comparatively heavy at 477.1g, implying a heavily-leaded bronze. The butt is straight (23mm wide) and is angled slightly towards the unlooped side. The septum is thick, as is typical for the type, with a thickness at the butt of 6mm and 14mm at the base of the stop. The septum is slightly concave across its width. The flanges are concave and end well before the butt (18mm). The sides before the stop are straight. The stop is rounded, suggesting th…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-759FC0
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy palstave, probably of Type Guilsfield. The palstave is complete and has an overall length of 141.0mm and is comparatively heavy at 483.7g, implying a heavily-leaded bronze. The butt has a width of 24.7mm and is irregular, appearing to have suffered from casting problems with the bronze at the surface appearing to be porous, there is also some hollowing on both sides of the septum adjacent to the butt. This damage may be a result of insufficient bronze when casting. The butt was likely to have been straight and angled slightly towards the unlooped side. …
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: IARCH-500B79
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 213 no. 869: "During excavations, 1965-9: Six ant. "were found close together and at the same level near hut floor 18": Ant. Gallienus (sole reign) 1 Victorinus 2 Tetricus II 1 Carausius 2 6 (1 b., cast) (1 b.) -H.N. Savory, Excavations at Dinorben, 1965-9 (1971), 33, cp. 37f. -C. N. Shiel, The Episode of Carausius and Allectus, BAR 40 (1977), 41, no. 12, types, some mints"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dinorben', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8BD2F5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 327 no. 1353: ""Between November 1982 and February 1983, Mr. D. Rippingale found fifty-one Roman coins in the shallow topsoil of an area about 3 m. square on the steep slope adjoining the east side of the ramparts of Dinorben, a little to the north of the north of the east corner [sic]. " The 51 coins were 2 ant. and 49 AE, of the period AD 348-55. "Probably, therefore, the two Dinorben radiates did not belong to what one may take as a scattered hoard." Ant. AE Claudius II (deified) 1 Tetricus II 1 Constantius II, Aug. 5 Constans, Aug. 9 Magnentius 29 Dece…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dinorben', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4C74C3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 342-343 no. 1405: "In the College Museum, Bangor, "associated with the cabinet containing the silver (i.e. the denarii from the Abergele (1842) hoard) [no. 383], is a small collection of 34 Roman bronze coins, which has always been supposed to be from Abergele. In the Museum also, but not definitely associated in the same manner, is another bronze collection of 22 coins. These two collections agree exactly in type and range of date (c. AD 260-c.380), the only difference being in condition and legibility. It is, therefore, considered certain that they are portions of…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abergele', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-872959
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 81 no. 383: "3 Feb. 1842 "Crowther (agent to Sir John Hay Williams) gave me a very large collection of silver coins with pieces of the earthen vessel that contained them. They were found in a field of mine of Bron-y-Berlan farm by some men who were digging a ditch. The men kept back a great many of them and would doubtless have done so with them all, but they were so incrusted with dirt and so stuck together they looked like buttons in copper. Crowther contrived to clean them and they were in excellent condition." -Ms. Journal of Sir John Hay Williams, of Bodelwyd…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abergele', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9A36C5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 343 no. 1405A: "In the Catalogue of the Contents of the Museum at the Rhyl meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1858 there were exhibited: "base denarii of Valerian and Pomponian families, and one, silver-washed, of Valerianus II, all found at Abergele, with a large quantity of similar kind." Arch. Camb., 12 (1858), 466 It is possible that the ant. of Valerian II came from the bronze hoard in the College Museum, Bangor, but the Republican den. are not likely to have come from the same hoard."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abergele', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9BE7C3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 416 no. 1702: ""Early last century a hoard of Roman third brasses was discovered by Jn. Jones, servant of Tyddyn Tarn, Cefn Brith, in an earthenware vessel while getting stones from a quarry in a field called Ffridd Hafod y Maidd distant nearly half a mile north-north-west of Hafod y Maidd farmstead. None of the coins can now be traced. They resembled 'ffyrlingod' i.e. farthings and would fill a hat. Mr. E.L. Hughes confirmed this account [i.e. of 1916-17], and added that he remembered several young men many years ago who had some of them attached to their watch …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glasfryn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1F554D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 212 no. 865: "Unpublished. Present whereabouts uncertain. A hoard of c. 50 antoniniani was discovered just outside Conway, shortly after the last war. It contained mostly coins of the Gallic Empire and terminated with eight or nine of Carausius." -N. Shiel, The Episode of Carausius and Allectus, BAR 40 (1977), 40, no. 10 Shiel gives the location as [...] [sic.]."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Conwy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6967CC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 233 no. 948: ""The 142 coins listed below were discovered by Mr. [...] of Rhyl, on a gently sloping patch of ground close to the south-east corner of Pen-y-Corddwyn hillfort. They were recovered from a small area on four separate visits to the site in October and November 1978. The first group of 73 coins was found in a tight cluster several inches below the surface, and is presumably an undisturbed part of the coin hoard. A second group of coins, reported to the National Museum of Wales, was recovered during three visits to the site. These subsequent discoveries …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pen-y-Corddwyn-Mawr I', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-23EBAE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 252 no. 1053: ""The nine [AE] coins of Constantine I were recovered from such a small area that they may form part of a second scattered hoard [see no. 948]. The latest coin dates to AD 320 (reverse type Victoriae Laetae Princ Perp of the mint of London)." The distribution over types and mints was: London Trier TOTAL SOLI INVICTO (COMITI) 3 2 5 VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP 1 1 4 4 3 9 (2 b.) -R.J. Brewer, in BBCS, XXVIII (1978-80), 747-50, types, mints -9 coins in Grosvenor Museum, Chester"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pen-y-Corddwyn-Mawr II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1FF1F2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 212 no. 866: ""A short time ago, Mr. Thomas Kendrick, the proprietor of a small museum and camera obscura on Great Orme's Head, while engaged upon an alteration of the roadway, came upon what he believes to have been an ancient fireplace, near which, embedded in the clay, were seventeen Roman coins with one piece of pottery." The 17 coins, all ant. were listed at the BM: Ant. Gallienus (joint reign) 1 Victorinus 2 Tetricus I 1 Carausius 13 17 -B.V. Head in NC, 1888, 163f., types, mints -All the coins of Carausius had obv. IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, the latest …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Orme', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-348B0F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 212-213 no. 867: ""On 10th January last some workmen who were excavating soil and rubble on the Little Orme's Head, near Llandudno, unearthed a quantity of Roman coins. The coins lay at a depth of about 2½ feet below the surface which was composed of accumulated detritus from the cliffs above. The tenant of the land took possession of them to the number of 452. No particular notice seems to have been taken of the probably broken receptacle. Some corroded pieces of thin bronze plate with rivets through them hammered down on both sides, were however subsequently pic…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Orme', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8A3599
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 248-249 no. 1024: "At Little Orme's Head: "near a farm which has been tenanted for centuries by a family of the name of Owen one of them about the year 1873 made the discovery of the find I am about to describe whilst altering the level of the road. The nephew of the finder, who afterwards inherited and sold the hoard, informed me that when discovered the jar containing the coins was surrounded by very old masonry, presumed at the time to be Roman, comprising wrought stones and walling. Whilst this was in process of removal there was unearthed a large one-handled …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Orme', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FED56F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 312 no. 1292: ""South Gogarth Abbey. Several small brass and one third brass of Constantine period." BBCS, I (1921-3), 348 Constantinian"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gogarth Abbey', grid reference and parish protected.