Record ID: WREX-90A174
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Description The ring is a memento mori ring with a flat bezel in the form of a central square, each side having a projecting semi-circular lobe engraved with a leaf, to form a quatrefoil design. The outer surface of the bezel square is engraved with a death’s head (a skull), inlaid with traces of white enamel, surrounded by the inscription: + Memento Mori, in small neat italic script. The shoulders are cast with scrolls in green enamel, with white enamel ‘stems’ below. Much of the inscription and engraved design remains infilled with soil, and it is not clear whether…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carreghofa', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-8311D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman radiate of Probus (AD 276-282), dating to the period c.AD 276-282 (Reece period 14). SOLI INVICTO reverse type depicting Sol radiate in a spread quadriga, right arm raised, left hand holding whip. Mint of Serdica. cf. Gloucester no. 1598; RIC V.2 no. 864.
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: WREX-1838F1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman Republican denarius of L. Marcius Philippus, dating to the period c.56 BC (Reece Period 1). Obverse: ANCV[S], Diademed head of Ancus Marcius right, lituus behind. Reverse: PHILIPPVS AQVA[...], Aqueduct, on which stands equestrian statue; at horse's feet, flower. Mint of Rome. RRC 425/1. Measurements: Diameter: 16.8mm; Weight: 3.42g; Die axis: 2.
Created on: Friday 14th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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Record ID: WAW-641884
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Early Bronze Age copper alloy long flanged developed axehead dating to circa 2150BC - 1850 BC. The axehead is sub rectangular in cross section and has a shallow lenticular side profile. There is a proto stop ridge / median bevel which is now barely visible due to corrosion and the developed patina. The axehead has a rounded butt end. The external edges are worn and have a slight hammer raised flange. The object then extends to a crescentic flared blade/cutting edge which is worn and slightly chipped. The object has a green to brown coloured pitted surface pati…
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 28th December 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-FD08F4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy vessel foot of Roman date. The object is crudely pelta shaped, with a central triangular projection and flanking lobes on one edge, the other being convex. The object is covered by soil, with areas of corrosion disrupting the dark green patinated surface. One end of the object is broken, leading to a reduced length. Pelta shaped vessel feet are well documented, with many examples recorded on the PAS database (e.g. PUBLIC-749A73 and ESS-8C8A14), and excavated from Roman contexts such as in Caerleon (Brewer, 1986, pg. 173). They are believed to have…
Created on: Thursday 27th May 2021
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
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Record ID: WREX-17D289
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman zoomorphic figurine of a goat, dating from c.43-410AD. The figurine is moulded in the round but is now very worn. There are traces of the animal’s horns/ears and muzzle. The forelegs are present, but the rear legs are slightly truncated however, between the back legs there is a small protruding element which may represent the genitalia. The surface of the animal’s body is slightly pitted and worn but it is possible to see traces of repetitive curving, linear decoration on the body, probably representing the animal's hide. Dimensions: Le…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forden with Leighton and Trelystan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-044C87
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hil, Western Group. 70-110 AD). The brooch is fragmentary, missing the leg and spring (with a surviving length of 23.2mm, a surviving depth of 6.6mm and a weight of 4.0g). The missing spring was positioned behind semi-tubular wings (with a width of 22.5mm and a diameter of 6.4mm) with the axis bar secured between perforated end lugs. The chord was tensioned by a lug at the head, now damaged. The wings appear to have been decorated with vertical grooves near the ends, now worn and corroded. The bow is of sub-rectangular section, with stra…
Created on: Tuesday 26th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-481C47
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of South Wales (Stogursey) Type and of Ewart Park metalworking industry dated to c. 950 – 750BC The cast socketed axe is incomplete and damaged, missing the blade, an area of the mouth and is also perforation through one face (with a surviving length of 66.0 and a weight of 151.9g). The incomplete mouth is sub-rectangular to oval (48.5mm x 34.4mm (surviving)) and similarly the top of the socket is sub-rectangular (32.0mm x 26mm (incomplete)). The top of the mouth is moderately flat and has the suggestion of two, possibly three of the casting runner …
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-46F0C7
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age copper alloy terret of Group I, Simple Type and probably of 2nd century BC to mid 1st century AD date The cast terret is near-complete but is distorted, corroded and worn (with a distorted length of 36.4mm, a distorted width of 42.2mm and a weight of 15.2g). The terret hoop is narrowest at its apex, now exaggerated by corrosion and of circular or oval section (with a diameter of 3.3mm). On the areas of the interior where the surface survives wear facets are evident. The hoop widens towards the terminals (8.7mm and 9.3mm high by 9.5and 8.5mm wide, likely to have been oval…
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C6BDCC
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy dirk of Middle Bronze Age date (more precisely c. 1550 - 1350BC). The dirk is of Group II (Burgess and Gerloff, 1981) due to the central ridge producing a blade with a flattened lozenge shaped cross-section. The blade is undecorated with slightly hollow ground edges. The butt is rounded on the edges with a flat end flanked by two rivet notches at the shoulders of the butt. The butt shape is fairly unusual compared to other dirks of Group II, and the blade tapers towards the point from the butt at a shallower gradient than the majority of examples of Group II. …
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 29th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llangors', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-0612C5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper alloy Sompting Type (variant Cardiff II) socketed axe, dating from the Earliest Iron Age c. 800-600BC. The axe has an almost square socket that appears to retain traces of a wooden haft. The axe is broadly triangular in section and tapers to a flared convex cutting edge. There is a semi-circular loop near the socket rim on one side. Only one face of the axe retains its original surface and this has three ribs the central one of which terminates in a pellet. The axe has a dark brown/green patina but is pitted and rough in places. Length: 125mm; width of…
Created on: Thursday 16th July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanfechain', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-DCDA06
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval silver coin Charles I (1625-49) shilling, London Privy mark: triangle Group F / North 2231 (1639-40) 5.46g
Created on: Monday 21st October 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-DBC3EA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver coin Edward II (1307-27) penny, London Class 10cf3b (c. 1307-9)
Created on: Monday 21st October 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: SF-53B129
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
A cast bronze palstave axehead, dating to the Middle Bronze Age between 1500 - 1150 BC. It is sub-rectangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in section at the flanges. The stop is positioned at 65.16 mm from the butt. Below the stop on the blade end of the artefact, there is a slightly dished shield-shaped recess with raised outer borders on both sides of the axehead. The blade flares towards the curved blade tip. The palstave axehead is in a worn and corroded condition with substantial areas of the original dark brown patina remaining on both sides. There are large areas of bronze diseas…
Created on: Tuesday 27th August 2019
Last updated: Saturday 15th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'caersws', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMGW-9A3A33
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Descriptions Type Meldreth, Variant Aylsham faceted axe (Class D) - socket mouth and loop fragment Dimensions: Maximum surviving length 44.6mm; maximum surviving width at mouth 34.5mm; depth of collar to upper moulding margin 17.6mm; width of loop 5.3-5.5mm; surviving weight (prior to conservation) 20.9g. This is a partial mouth, upper face and loop-side fragment of a bronze slender socketed axe. The axe has a deep and trumpet shaped collar, whose lower margins are defined by three horizontal grooves, with a combined maximum width of approximately 4mm. The mouth top is fla…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-47D2BB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
1. Gold penannular bar bracelet fragment - Type 4B Dimensions: surviving length 25.7mm; bar width 5.7mm; bar thickness 4mm; head width 9.8mm; head thickness 8.3mm; weight 7.36g. This is a terminal fragment of a gold bar bracelet with a D-shape section. The bar expands abruptly to a solid, outwardly expanding flat terminal, also with a D-section. On the flat terminal face there is a slight penannular shaped hollow 0.5-1.0mm wide running around the sides and outer margins of the terminal. This is inset parallel with and approximately 0.5mm from the outer edge of the terminal face…
Created on: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-3457EA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Silver strap-end with incised 'vine-scroll' interlace motifs, interwoven with harps and set around a centrally placed equal-arm cross with circular terminals. There are traces of niello, and of further decoration at the break, where the split attachment would have had two circular rivet holes (missing). The strap-end terminates in a stylised animal head with large rounded ears and small circular eyes, with incised lines on brow and to represent snout/mouth. The back is plain, apart from the suggestion of a single incised line border beneath the terminal head. The strap-end reflects…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-32E51F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is an annular brooch. The silver frame is of circular cross-section, and slightly distorted. One face is decorated with four groups of diagonally-set incised lines inlaid; the other face has transverse lines around 50% of the frame, and pairs of parallel lines set herringbone pattern fashion for the other half. There are traces of black niello within the incised lines. The two sides of the wrap-around head overlap at the top, and the head swivels freely on the frame. The pin shaft is of diamond cross-section, each facet being decorated with wriggle-work zig-zag lin…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-4833FE
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Middle to Late Bronze Age Group IV dirk, possibly of Burgess & Gerloff's (1981)[1] Group IV, possibly of Type Stuntney and of Penard or Wallington metalworking Industry, dated to c. 1300 - 1000BC The cast dirk is near-complete, with some peripheral damage (with a length of 258mm and a weight of 77.5g). The top of the butt is flat and thin, with curved corners (with a butt width of 27.5mm and a thickness of 0.7mm). Beneath the butt the rivet-notches are a little irregular and of V-shaped profile (with a depth of 4.0mm - 4.4mm, a width of 7mm and are 18.8mm apart). Beneath the rivet-…
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-47FE96
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy quadrangular bell probably of mid-1st to early-2nd century AD date The cast bell is near-complete but in three fragments, missing the clapper and areas around the detached face and is comparatively massive (with an overall length of 111.5mm and a weight of 262.9g). The breaks have detached one face and one small mouth corner fragment and all breaks appears to have occurred in antiquity and does not have a close-fitting join. The bell is of quadrangular form, sometimes referred to as pyramid type with a sub-rectangular mouth, now distorted (with dimensions of 53mm…
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th July 2020
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