Record ID: NMGW-0A75C8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress-hook with a lozenge-shaped back-plate cut from a sheet and cusped around the edge, to which (on the reverse) a separate hook and bar loop have been soldered. Attached to the front of the plate by solder is a hollow, lozenge-shaped silver gilt box with chamfered sides. The top is decorated with four single-strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire circlets, arranged around hollow hemispherical bosses, and small granulated pellets. Similar decoration occurs on the bevels. Gilding does not extend along the full length to the hook.
Created on: Friday 15th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW11
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete, cast copper alloy rowel spur. The horizontally straight sides, D-shaped in section, taper from the neck of the spur towards the terminal. One arm is broken halfway along its length, the other is complete but has a damaged terminal. Enough of the terminal remains to suggest that it was originally formed by two rings, set like a figure-of-eight, equally above and below the front of the spur side. The neck is short, starts horizontal and then tapers towards the downward bent rowel box. The back of the spur is decorated with an elongated lozenge motif made up of cast lines. Cor…
Created on: Friday 23rd July 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manorbier', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMGW12
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead cover from a powder holder. Distorted but complete cylinder, closed at one end, with two attachment loops set at opposite sides of the cap. Traces of two casting seams on opposite sides of the cap suggest that it was cast in a two-part mould. Diameter of top of cap 20mm; depth of cap 16-18mm. Mid seventeenth century in date.
Created on: Friday 23rd July 1999
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manorbier', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMGW13
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two-sided lead or lead alloy (pewter) token. It is crudely made and probably cast. On obverse side monogram design the initials "RS" (note that the S is reversed); on reverse side pictorial design of a rider on a horse with his right arm raised. Some modern scratching on reverse side; presumably, made by finder. The form of the letters suggests an early sixteenth to eighteenth century date. Diameter 15.5-16.5mm, weight 6.0grams.
Created on: Monday 26th July 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manorbier', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMGW3168
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Perforated biconical lead, or lead alloy, casting. One face of the spindle whorl is decorated with four crosses; the other face is embellished with a series of worn linear motifs. Post-medieval, probably Tudor. Weight 29.1 grams, diameter c.26mm, height c.10mm, diameter of perforation 10-11mm.
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3181
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Looped copper alloy clasp, mount or fitting. It is decorated with an incised line set transversely across the central plate. It is possibly an unusual form of eighteenth or nineteenth century shoe clasp but its narrow waisted form suggest that this is unlikely. Instead I think that it is probably the top of a post-medieval dress hook which has lost its hook. Dress hooks are a type of fitting which are usually considered to have been used for fastening separate items of clothing. How such items were used is not certain. They are presumed to have been sewn into a garment, through the re…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3198
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy pin with a spherical head embellished with globular bosses. The stem is bent through a right-angle 29mm below the decorative head and its end is missing. The stem has a thickened shoulder set 12mm below the head (diameter of shoulder 3.5mm); below the shoulder the stem tapers and is square in section, above the shoulder it is probably circular in section. Microscopic examination suggests that the pin was gilded; fragments of gilding survive on both the head and the stem of the pin. Length (min.) 40mm, maximum diameter of head 9mm, weight 3.3 grams. Dating the pin is diffi…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3222
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy halfpenny token, 1795. Obverse: A profile bust of the Duke of York in naval uniform, facing right. Beneath is HALFPENNY 1795 in two lines. Legend: FRED. K DUKE OF YORK. Reverse: A first-rate ship-of-the-line sailing to the right. Legend: THE WOODEN WALLS OF ENGLAND. Edge: PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR LONDON.+.+. Struck anonymously, for general circulation. Probably made in Birmingham. The original surfaces have largely been lost through corrosion.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3223
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver threepence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Tower mint, London. Privy Mark: eglantine and dated 1575. Worn and battered.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3224
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Tower mint, London. Privy mark: cross-crosslets indicated that the coin was minted between 1560 and 1561.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3226
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Spherical cast copper alloy button with integral loop. Diameter 13mm, thickness 16mm. Sixteenth to seventeenth century in date.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3228
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Tower mint, dated 1567, privy mark illegible.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3250
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper farthing of George IV. The date is illegible, 1826-1830. The coin is heavily worn and corroded.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3253
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Probably a worn seventeenth to eighteenth century halfpenny. The coin has been perforated and reused probably as a pendant or watch fob.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW347
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Button cast in lead-tin alloy with an integral shank. The lug at the rear looks like an imperfectly cast loop and stem.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW348
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval knife handle cast in the form of a monk. The figure is robed, and may be holding a rosary; the circular slot for the tang is small (diameter 4mm), suggesting it in the handle of a small implement: either knife fork or spoon. Length 63mm
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW349
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW350
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver fob-seal consisting of an openwork handle, with relatively large suspension loop and an oval matrix. The matrix contains the device of a clenched fist and forearm superimposed over a scythe and set above a linear panel. The Latin motto is arranged around the device and reads 'SINE CLADE STERNO'. Either eighteenth or nineteenth century
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW351
Object type: TROUGH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Basin or trough - the small size of the basin suggests that it may have been used to collect water from a hand pump. Crudely carved out from a piece of local stone - possibly a Presili 'bluestone'. It contains a drainage hole on the side and has been truncated. Probably 18th or 19th century
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW387
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Curved tapering cast copper alloy rod which is broken at its thickest end and terminates in a near spherical boss at the other. At its widest point the rod is sub-rectangular in section but it becomes circular in section towards the terminal. Length 86mm, diameter of terminal c.18mm, weight 53.5 grams. The piece is probably the cross-hilt, inner guard or quillon of a dagger, rapier or sword, however not enough of the casting survives to be certain or suggest exactly what type of hilt this may have been part of. Suggested finder send object to the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 12th September 2013
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