Record ID: LVPL-22B8A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy bow brooch of the Wirral type dating to the Roman period. The object is a hinged example. The upper bow is decorated with three vertical grooves. Each groove is empty but was possibly once filled with enamel as in LVPL-98299D. Above the panels is a raised bulb, and beyond that the projection tapers to a swan head like terminus. Below the panels are two lateral cylinters with faint incised decoration. On the rear of the brooch the notched casing which would have held the axis bar to support the hinged pin is complete. The axis bar, hinge and pin are mis…
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nannerch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-74665E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Lucilla (AD 164-169), dating to the period AD 164-169 (Reece period 8). [PI]E[TA]S, S C reverse type depicting Pietas draped standing front, head left, sacrificing out of a patera over an altar. Mint of Rome. As BMC nos. 1209-1211; RIC III, p.353, no. 1755.
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 26th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cilcain', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-21B179
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy bow brooch of the Wirral type dating to the Roman period. The object is a hinged example. The head is stepped as is typical of this and the headloop is incomplete. Below the incomplete headloop and at again at the lower step is a horizontal panel decorated with a series of incised vertical grooves. The upper bow is decorated with three raised vertical panels. The panels are divided into four cells containing alternating orange and degraded pea-green enamel with each cell remaining filled. Below the panels is a raised rounded knop measuring 4mm in diameter which ha…
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 31st August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cilcain', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-210305
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy bow brooch of the Wirral type dating to the Roman period. The object is a hinged example. The head is stepped as is typical of this and the headloop is complete. Below the headloop and at again at the lower step is a horizontal panel decorated with a series of incised vertical grooves. The upper bow is decorated with three raised vertical panels. The panels are not divided into cells as is usual. Three fragments of bright orange enamel remain, one in each panel. Typically this orange enamel would have alternated with enamel of another colour, however no other colour …
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cilcain', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-55F121
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy middle Bronze Age Group II dirk with a low butt (Cats 139-5) (Burgess & Gerloff 1981, 6). The object corresponds to late Arreton to early Taunton range (1600-1350BC). This equates with a latest Early Bronze Age to early Middle Bronze Age date range and the likelihood is an Acton Park I or II currency of 1550-1400 BC. The butt end of the object is damaged and the edge eroded. The butt end measures 48.05mm in width and is 2.50mm thick. Two large circular rivets remain in-situ and measures 8.13mm in diameter with hammered flattened ends. One side of one rivet is exposed…
Created on: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nercwys', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-45B621
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy trumpet brooch from the Roman period, dating to c.1st to 2nd centuries AD. The trumpet brooch has a typical oval head shape and is a hinged example. The hinge and pin are missing. The head is decorated with two circumferential ridges just below the incomplete head plate. The head loop is missing. The bow arches out from the head and tapers towards the foot. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section. The bow is decorated with an oval waist moulding with a horizontal groove above and below. The foot is incomplete due to recent damage. The catchplate is incomplete and meas…
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanasa', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-3F7290
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Late Iron Age to early Roman terret. The terret would have been oval when complete and the hoop is oval in cross-section. The hoop tapers in width and thickness from the bar towards the top where each side terminates with a break. The incomplete ends are rounded and appear to have broken in antiquity. The hoop measures 12mm in width and 14mm in thickness at its base and 3mm in width and 4mm in thickness at the break. The bar is narrowed and there is a collar at either side. The bar measures 7mm in thickness and 7mm in width. The object has a light brown…
Created on: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 1st October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llansa', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-5EAC05
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description Silver strap-end with incised zoomorphic designs, set against a niello background. The sides of the strap-end are of slightly convex form, and the border is notched to form a coarsely beaded band. The split attachment end has two circular rivet holes (one retaining its rivet), below which is a centrally placed, incised, trilobate palmette motif. There is a main centrally placed panel of two intertwined sinuous creatures with forelegs, heads in profile with single ears and dots for eyes, whose bodies have devolved into ribbon-like interlace. Each beast bites the body of th…
Created on: Monday 11th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-9B9982
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy crossbow brooch dating to the Roman period. The object is cross-shaped in plan. The wings are lozenge-shaped in cross section with a large onion shaped knop and collar at each end. There is a third similar knop at the head of the brooch. The bow expands outwards from the head of the brooch and is P-shaped in profile. The foot is long and triangular shaped in cross-section. It is decorated with a median ridge. Three horseshoe-shaped mouldings with the open part facing outwards decorate the foot each side of the ridge. The object has a dark green patina and is in …
Created on: Monday 4th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 20th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bagillt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-F81A02
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast bronze triangular perforated racloir or hog-backed knife, of late Bronze Age date. The object is triangular in plan and hexagonal in cross-section. The object is thickest in the centre and tapers to a sharp cutting edge on each side. In the centre of the object is a rounded triangular perforation. This object can be dated to the Blackmoor/Ewart park phase of Bronze Age metalwork, (c.1,020-800BC). Triangular perforated knives are more common from the south-eastern region of England. An example of this object can be found on p61, Adkins and Adkins, (1982). Another example which can…
Created on: Monday 21st December 2009
Last updated: Sunday 29th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bagillt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-FFC853
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy numus of Constantine I, AD 310-313 (Reece Period 15). Obv: Laureate bust facing right, CONSTANTINVS P F AVG. Rev: Mars standing right holding spear and leaning on shield. MARTI CONSERVATORI. Mint of Trier. RIC VI, p. 226, no. 861.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LVPL-FC91C4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver denarius of Vespasian, (AD69-79). Obv: Head facing right. IMP CAES VESPASIANVS AVG. Rev: Pax seated left holding olive branch. PON MAX TR P COS VI. Rome Mint, AD 75 RIC II (2nd ed) no. 772
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LVPL-FC3218
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper as of Domitian, (AD81-96), dating to AD 86 (Reece Period 4). RIC II.1, p. 299, cf. nos. 492-3 Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P; Laureate head right . Rev: MONETA (AV)GVS[T/I], (S C); Moneta standing left holding scales and cornucopiae.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LVPL-67C005
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4.l. sub group, hinged flat wing ends type). The bow rises high from the wings and curves downwards. The wings are semi-clindrical and undecorated. The top of the bow is decorated with a plain rib and it has a dark green patina. There is a ridge running down both edges of the bow which starts below the wings and runs to the foot. There is a knob at the foot with a groove. The catchplate is complete and has a backward hook. The pin is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitford', grid reference and parish protected.