Record ID: NMGW-DF937E
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy badge of medieval date, probably a pilgrim badge representing Thomas Becket of 14th or 15th century date The badge is of circular, umbonate form and is incomplete, missing the pin and part of the rim (with a diameter of 26.4mm, a height of 6.1mm and a weight of 4.6g) probably representing a buckler. The outside of the rim is raised with a double-moulding, enhanced with raised pellets. The positions of the raised pellets corresponds with stubs around the edge, possibly from a larger openwork badge. At the centre is a raised boss (12.6mm diameter and 4.8mm high) with…
Created on: Wednesday 25th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-A5E7E7
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead - tin alloy boss possibly a medieval badge of 14th to 16th century date The boss appears to be complete (with a weight of 10.3g) and comprises a basal circular flange (4.1mm diameter) with a raised border and around a hemispherical centre (17.6mm diameter and 7.9mm deep). The central boss has cast decoration comprising a six-pointed star or flower, with a pellet in each of the lobes, near the top. Any moulding at the apex has been lost. The boss is solid and the rear is semi-finished with a depression around the centre. There is a clear casting seam running along the rear an…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-0CC468
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy balance of folding beam type and probably of 13th to 15th century date. The balance is near-complete, missing the central suspension loop and both scale pans and is now corroded with both arms extended upwards (with an original length across the beam of approximately 250mm and a weight of 53.3g). The stubs of the integral suspension loop survives at the centre (7mm wide). There is a central perforation through the beam (with a diameter of 3.9mm) and the central beam is of oval section, narrowing slightly to the hinges (with a length of 53.3mm). No decoration…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-EA3B58
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead. The sides are somewhat rounded and the barbs and tang are squared, suggesting the arrowhead to be a Sutton b type (Green 1980). The arrowhead has lost its tip in antiquity, possibly as a result of impact through use. The flint is brown, probably of beech pebble flint and is unpatinated.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-7B449E
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age flint arrowhead of Barbed and Tanged type (c. 2500 -1800BC) The arrowhead is near-complete (with a length of 28.6mm, a width across the barbs of 15.1mm, a maximum thickness of 3.4mm and a weight of 1.2g), missing the end of the tip and is made on a convex flake. The flint is non-cortical and has differential pale-grey patination. The dorsal surface has extensive pressure-flaking while the ventral surface has a retouched edge and is gently convex.
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-5A8E7B
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead The bifacially worked arrowhead is incomplete, missing one barb, which has broken in antiquity (with a length of 23.6mm, a surviving basal width of 20.9mm, a maximum thickness of 4.2mm and a weight of 1.4g). The flint has patinated white and is non-cortical. Found 320m to the north of the arrowhead at ST 4975 9063 were three pieces of debitage, two bladelets and a spall, all unpatinated and non-cortical. One of the bladelets is a proximal fragment with utilisation scars along one side edge
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-99E8C7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Published
A biconical bead made of sheet gold with a central perforation for suspension. The bead is damaged and misshapen, with a snag and a tear evident (maximum diameter 13.5mm, maximum height/width 8.0mm, thickness of sheet <0.1mm, weight 0.84g). The gold wire is sub-rectangular in cross-section, with curving meanders, suggesting it was once coiled. One terminal has a globular shaped head; the other has a flattened and folded back hook terminal (maximum current length 40.7mm, diameter of wire 0.7-1.0mm, weight 1.13g).
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
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Record ID: NMGW1185
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
One stone bead. Maximum diameter 13.6mm, thickness 1.6mm, weight 0.3 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marloes and St. Brides', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-6490D1
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Newport
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age or Roman globular blue glass bead The bead is plain and made of opaque pale blue glass with a diameter of 10.28mm and a maximum thickness of 6.59mm. The bead has divergent sides and has a minimum thickness of 5.75mm. The central perforation has a diameter of 3.47mm. The bead has a crack running through both sides and weighs 0.8g.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-624CD3
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Perforated amber bead, probably of Early Medieval or Anglo Saxon date. The bead is irregular; the underside is rounded and the two sides are moderately flat and meet forming a ridge (with an angle of around 100 degrees) at the top, the ends are also moderately flat and converge towards the top. The piercing is off-centre at one end and has a 3.3mm diameter, it is linear and has been drilled. The surface of the bead has discoloured and is now a dull orange -yellow colour. A small chip on the surface of the bead has exposed the glassy dark orange of the amber. The bead was reported with…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-99D4D5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An amber bead of uncertain date. The amber bead is spherical with faceted sides and has a height of 33.3mm and a maximum width of 24.5mm. The faceted sides are angled, indicating the bead was likely to have been the centrepiece of a necklace arrangement. The bead has a central circular perforation which has been drilled, producing a regular straight hole of 4.9mm diameter. The surface of the bead exhibits concentric striations indicating the bead has been machine turned and polished. The amber is a rich golden honey colour with no surface patination. The bead weighs 15.4g. A lack of a…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2005
Last updated: Friday 8th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-2EF4C2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Cast near-spherical copper alloy bead, probably of Post Medieval date. No excavated Late Medieval base metal beads have been found in Britain apart from two small irregular tin beads (Nos. 1584-5; Egan & Pritchard 1991) in the Museum of London collections. The bead is plain apart from a small circular mark, possibly the resulting from the
Created on: Friday 20th June 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-5675B8
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete turquoise frit melon bead made from a glass paste. The bead is near spherical and is decorated with a number of irregular grooves along its face. The bead has a large (5.5-6mm) central circular apperture.
Created on: Wednesday 14th January 2004
Last updated: Monday 13th October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-7D99B1
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blue glass bead, of uncertain date, possibly Roman, c. mid 1st century AD to late 4th century The bead is of elongated-spherical form, wider at one end (with a length of 9.0mm and a weight of 1.1g, containing some sediment) and is pale-blue in colour. The faces are convex (giving a maximum diameter of 9.8mm) and the bead has a single, circular perforation, seemingly of uniform diameter (3.4mm diameter). There is a very slight difference in the length and diameter of the bead from one side to the other (7.8mm -9.0mm). The face is somewhat abraded and has slight pitting with encirc…
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 15th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-7BC28D
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four handmade glass beads of differing colours and manufacturing methods. Dates unknown, may range from the Roman period to the 19th century. An opaque yellow glass bead with cylindrical, slightly tapering form. Produced by forming molten glass around a rod and rolling to form the smooth sides of the bead. The PAS database has two records of similar shaped beads, SWYOR-110E90 and YORYM-B2E6D4, which are tentatively dated as early medieval. 6.8mm long, 8.7mm diameter, 0.77g. A globular bead of transparent light blue-green glass. The bead has been produced by drilling the …
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stretton Grandison', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-C2A858
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age blue glass bead of Guido’ (1978)[1] Class 6, Oldbury Type, probably of 1st century BC to early 1st century AD date The bead has some damage around the central perforation on both sides but is otherwise complete (with a maximum diameter of 26.7mm, a height of 17.6mm and a weight of 14.0mm). The core of the bead is of dark-blue and near-opaque glass of fairly globular form (with a diameter of 14 – 15mm). The outside edge of the bead is decorated with spiral trails of white glass forming conical bosses. The bosses are arranged in a pattern comprising three larger …
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 15th February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-678237
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blue glass bead, of uncertain date, possibly Iron Age to Roman, c. 1st century BC to late 4th century AD The bead is near-complete with a crack evident across the face and with surface flaking around the crack and around the perforation (with a length of 8.9mm and a weight of 1.5g). The bead is of slightly irregular flattened-spherical or globular form and is sub-circular in diameter (with a minimum diameter of 11.5mm and a maximum diameter of 12.4m) with a bright, pale-blue colour. The faces are convex and the bead has a single, sub-circular perforation, of uniform diameter (4.5…
Created on: Friday 12th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C49F3C
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman glass annular bead of mid-1st to 4th century AD date The bead is of cobalt blue glass and is of annular form, enhanced with an applied white paste trail on the surface. The bead is sub-circular form (of 5.2mm - 6.7mm diameter and with a weight of 2.1g) with a circular perforation (7.2mm diameter), placed off-centre and nearer the top of the bead (with a thickness of 2.5mm - 5.3mm). The top of the bead is narrowest and it gradually widens to the base (with a width of 5.5mm - 8.2mm). The outside edge is rounded and the white paste trail is raised with a continuous irregular zigz…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-C4ED03
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Amber bead, probably or Roman date The bead is of irregular long biconical form but of oval section (with a length of 20.4mm, a central diameter of 11.7mm - 15.6mm and a weight of 4.6g) and is in two fragments, recently repaired. The end undamaged end has a flattened terminal with a central small perforation (of 1.3mm diameter). The other end appears to have been less finished and shaped, with a concave facet on one side. The surface is abraded but displays some original surface flaws, suggesting that it was minimally shaped at one end. The amber is orange-brown and was likely to hav…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-7A911A
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green-blue glass bead probably of Roman date, c. mid 1st century AD to late 4th century The bead is of flattened, sub-spherical form and is complete (with a weight of 2.1g) and is of transluscent pale green-blue colour. The faces are convex (giving a maximum diameter of 14.5mm with a minimum diameter of 13.5mm) and the bead has a single, sub-circular perforation of consistent diameter (4.0mm - 4.7mm diameter). Both sides of the bead are flattened and one end is marginally narrower than the other (with a thickness of 6.4mm & 7.4mm respectively). There is an air bubble and flaw in th…
Created on: Friday 10th October 2014
Last updated: Friday 10th October 2014
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