Record ID: NMGW-CF4403
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description and identification Two halves of a decorated silver annular brooch frame. It is misshapen, with each part forming an elongated ‘U’ shape, which was once likely circular. The level of distortion obscures the form of the decoration on each ‘face’. There are regular, equally spaced notches infilled with niello across one ‘face’, with intermittent groups of four or five incised or stamped dots.  The other ‘face’ is largely plain with occasional groups of notches visible in one area. The two halves join at one break but do n…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wiston Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-EDC9DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Trumpet type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is incomplete, missing the leg and pin and is heavily-corroded (with a surviving length of 31.5mm, a surviving depth of 14.3mm and a weight of 6.0g). The missing spring was secured around a lug at the centre of the rear of the head. The lug is damaged and corroded but appears to have been of unusual, U-shaped form with a cavity in the interior and no surviving evidence of the perforations.  The base of the lug is raised suggesting a hinge was unlikely but the arrangement of the spring is uncert…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-ED790B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of T-shaped type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the fragmentary head only (with a surviving length of 17.8mm, a surviving depth of 10.5mm and a weight of 6.2g). The head is truncated but employed a hinge mechanism within tubular wings (with a surviving width of 17.8mm and a maximum diameter of 6.7mm). No decoration survives at the head but there is the suggestion of curved moulding at the sides (with a width of 9.6mm). The top of the bow appears to have been of D-shaped section, now worn and rounded and ta…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-ED3240
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, missing the leg pin and head-plate (with a surviving length of 37.8mm, a surviving depth of 17.5mm and a weight of 18.9g). The missing spring employed a ferrous axis bar, secured around a central, pierced D-shaped lug at the rear of the head (12.2mm long, 4.5mm thick and 5.7mm high). The head is now sub-oval (21.4mm long and 15.8mm wide) but has been eroded at the edges. Above the head are the remains of an integral head-plate, probably surmounted with a chain-loop, now lost. The base of the he…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EC109A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penannular ring, possibly a hoop from an Early Medieval penannular brooch The hoop is incomplete, missing one terminal, the pin and is distorted with a stripped surface (with a weight of 6.6g). The surviving terminal has a flattened end (1.6mm thick, 2.7mm wide and 5mm long) before a slight, rounded knop on the outside face (up to 4mm diameter and 1.2mm high). The frame is now distorted (with a width of 40.1mm and a length of 43.0mm) and is circular-sectioned (2.4mm – 3.1mm diameter) with No applied decoration. The damaged end of the hoop is differentially eroded t…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EBFCB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy penannular brooch of 5th to 6th century date The brooch is near-complete but with a stripped surface and is distorted (with a weight of 7.5g). The brooch frame has faceted cuboid terminals (7mm long, 4mm wide and 3mm thick). The front of the brooch has a ribbed border before a decorative moulding, before narrowing to the hoop with a curved step (with a length of 6mm and giving a diameter of 2.5mm – 3.0mm). The mouldings are likely to have been zoomorphic, with the beast’s snout protruding over the hoop.  Dot indentations on the front of the…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-5A15AC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Trumpet type and of late 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head and was comparatively massive (with a surviving length of 32.8mm, a surviving depth of 23.3mm and a weight of 18.3g) and was elaborately decorated. The brooch utilised a spring mechanism, now lost. The spring was secured around a central D-shaped lug (6.5mm high, 13mm long and 3.2mm – 4.2mm thick), perforated to accept a copper alloy axis bar, which is retained in the lug. The rear of the head is slightly dished to accommodate the internal chor…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-59FD6B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy penannular brooch of Fowler’s (1960)[1] Type D1, of 1st century BC to 4th century AD date The brooch is near-complete missing the pin (with a weight of 3.0g). The ring is sub-circular (28.8mm wide and 26.8mm long) and the frame is of sub-square section near the terminals to circular section near the top (2.0mm diameter). The ring has no applied decoration. The terminals are folded back on themselves (with a return length of 4.5mm and a depth of 4.2mm and 5.0mm) and each terminal is decorated with two transverse grooves. There is a discreet pa…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th March 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-57C5DC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment, probably from a bow brooch of indeterminate type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The fragment appears to be a comparatively small button from the mid-bow of a brooch (with a surviving length of 12.7mm, a surviving depth of 7.1mm, a width of 6.5mm and a weight of 1.3g). The button is corroded and appears to be of disc or possibly acanthus form and does not continue onto the rear of the bow. The button was flanked on each side with grooves. It is unclear which side was the upper bow and which was the leg and there is no surviving evidence for the beginning of …
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-57A3FD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch, probably of Polden Hill / T-shaped type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the incomplete head only (with a surviving length of 12.5mm, a surviving depth of 8.7mm and a weight of 2.4g). The missing spring was probably secured between lateral, perforated lugs, although the truncated wings now survive as a single stub (with a surviving width of 16.0mm). The head is now heavily-corroded and globular with no surviving decoration discernible. The very top of the bow survives as a stub of oval-section (1.9mm long, 2.7…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-DA579E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
The cast brooch frame is near-complete but the pin is missing and the frame is comparatively insubstantial (with an overall length of 57.6mm, an overall width of 62.2mm and a weight of 10.6g). The oval hoop (58.8mm external width) is of flattened-oval section (3.4mm wide and 1.9mm - 2.4mm thick), widening slightly as it approaches the terminals. There is no decoration evident on the hoop but there is an impact groove near the left terminal, possibly from a hammer blow. There is a slight step from the hoop to the integral terminals extending as far as an incised border, giving the impr…
Created on: Friday 11th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-4A1C32
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
The object is a small silver annular brooch with niello decoration on both sides of the frame, which is circular in cross-section. The frame decoration comprises at least three groups transverse lines on both sides, all inlaid with niello. The pin shaft is incised with a 'wriggle work' zig-zag line on each facet. The wrap-around head of the pin securing it to the annular frame of the brooch is plain. There is a small 'bar' at the junction of pin shaft and head (width 5mm), to prevent snagging. The annular frame is distorted. External frame diameters 18.6 x 12.6mm; frame thickness 1.1m…
Created on: Friday 7th August 2015
Last updated: Thursday 21st June 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-A71580
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill type (Mackreth Part 3, Group 4a-4.b, flat wing ends type) and probably of late 1st - early 2nd century AD date. The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head only and was comparatively substantial (with a surviving length of 27.5mm, a surviving depth of 16.1mm and a weight of 15.4g). The missing spring was secured between lateral perforated lugs and the chord was probably tensioned by a hook at the head, in a Polden Hill, hook type arrangement. The wings are truncated but both ends appear to be near to the te…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-8DF0B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill type (Mackreth 2011, Part 5, Group 2.a2, enamelled panel on upper bow, lenticular elements cast below, flat wing ends type) and of 2nd century AD date (130-160 AD). The brooch is incomplete, missing the spring, catch-plate and foot (with a surviving length of 50.5mm, a surviving depth of 16.6mm and a weight of 15.4g). The missing spring was secured between perforated lateral lugs and the chord was tensioned by a lug at the head, in a 'Polden Hill, lug type' arrangement. The wings are semi-cylindrical (with a width of…
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-636F0B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small silver annular brooch. The circular frame is circular in cross-section, and one side (the front) is decorated with two clusters of transverse grooves filled with niello. The wrap-around head of the pin secure it to the annular frame of the brooch, is lightly wider (2mm) than the shaft (width 1mm). External frame diameter 12 x 13mm; frame thickness 1mm; pin length 12mm; weight 0.55g. A number of annular brooches with similar pins are known from Wales. They range from small silver stirrup brooches, such as those from Llanfaes (Anglesey), Llanbedr Duffryn Clwyd (Denbighshire) …
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th July 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-45F745
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver brooch, fashioned from a groat (fourpenny piece) of King Edward I, 1272-1307. The coin brooch takes the form of a disc brooch, diameter 29mm. On the reverse, the side visible when worn, are five collets - one central, the others evenly spaced round the rim, at 12 o'clock, etc, as viewed, in varying states of preservation; these presumably originally held glass, enamel or coloured stones, though none survives and no remains of adhesive material have been detected. The brooch has not been cleaned but this face appears to have been gilded. On the obverse are the fragmentary re…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-8D97F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Dolphin or Polden Hill type and dating to the 1st century AD. The brooch is incomplete, missing the lower bow, the majority of the wings and the spring. The brooch employed a spring mechanism secured by either a rearward claw or a Polden Hill arrangement, since the wing terminals no longer survive it is now difficult to determine which type of arrangement was used. The head of the bow is comparatively large (12.5x14.5mm) and was decorated with a central raised V-shaped crest, possibly covered in punched marks. The bow has a D-shaped section and emerges…
Created on: Thursday 29th January 2004
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2016
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Record ID: NMGW3233
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Romano-British, copper alloy Colchester derivative brooch of the Polden Hills type. The brooch contains a bilateral spring of ten coils whose overhead chord is held in place by a simple rearward-facing hook. A copper alloy axis bar passes through the coils of the spring and is held by pierced circular plates at the ends of the wings (cf. Type L Hattatt 1982, 49, table 2). The wings are semi-cylindrical and both accommodate and hide from view the spring mechanism. The ends of the wings are decorated with moulded "knurled" ribs set adjacent to the pierced circular plates. Flat circular …
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3225
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Derivative trumpet-headed brooch of the disc and trumpet type. The bilateral, six coil, spring is accommodated in a recessed hollow set in the rear of the head while the axis bar is held in place by two perforated lugs on either side of the head (type N cf. Hattatt 1982, 49). The bow is straight, with a raised disc set mid-way along its length and terminates in a pseudo-penannular loop. The brooch is incomplete: the chord, pin, part of the solid catch-plate, the lugs set either side of the mid-bow disc and the fixed chain loop surmounting the head of the brooch are missing. The surface…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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