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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.
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Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 29th October 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Llangors', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-AD1EF5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper alloy object of unknown purpose, dating from the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age (c.1500BC to c.100BC). The object is formed of two projecting drop shaped lobes with a slight central depression between the lobes. The object is incomplete, with all of the original surface missing and one projecting point missing (leaving a length of 31.5mm, 18.65mm height and 10.1mm thickness). There is an interior cavity 14.4mm long, 7.3mm wide and c.5mm deep. The surface is green and black in colour and entirely pitted apart from the cavity. The lobes would likely have …
Created on: Wednesday 5th August 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Llantilio Crosseny', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-08CD35
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle to Late Bronze Age socketed axehead of uncertain type, possibly related to Type Wallington (Schmidt & Burgess, 1980, p. 175-6)[1] of Wilburton Wallington metalworking dated to c. 1300 – 1000BC
The cast axehead is complete (with a length of 102.6mm and a weight of 242.2g). The interior of the mouth is oval (27.2mm x 190mm) and the top irregular with the suggestion of four-runner casting. The exterior of the mouth is sub-rectangular (39.6mm x 27.5mm) with a prominent rounded mouth moulding or collar (3mm – 6mm thick and 10mm -13mm long) and has a noticeable shelf …
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-E96F08
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age tanged chisel of Late Bronze Age date, probably of Wilburton or Ewart Park metalworking industry, corresponding with Needham’s (1996) Periods 6-7, dated to c. 1150 – 750BC
The cast chisel is near-complete with a slightly distorted tang (with a length of 50.8mm and a weight of 15.9g). The tang (32.6mm long) is square to rectangular sectioned gradually narrowing to the end (6mm square at the collar and 3.0mm x 1.4mm at the end). There is a perpendicular step to the collar (2mm deep) of sub-oval form (11.1mm long and 9.3mm wide) and narrows below the flanged shoulder …
Created on: Monday 27th July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-07EA87
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe of South Wales (Stogursey) type and of Ewart Park Metalworking Industry, dated to c. 1000-700BC
The axehead is complete (with an overall length of 97.0mm and a weight of 261.8g). The mouth is sub-rectangular (52.3mm long and 43.7 wide) and the four casting runner stubs are evident and raised, positioned on the inner lip of the mouth. There is some damage around one of the runner stubs, with a crack which extends down the face (for 17mm). The socket is rectangular (34.3mm x 30.5.0mm and 71.3mm deep). The mouth moulding has a rounded step (6mm &…
Created on: Thursday 16th July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-EEAB28
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age socketed knife of Thorndon Type and of Ewart Park metalworking, corresponding with Needham’s Period 7, dated to c. 950-750BC
The cast knife is near-complete, but in two fragments, broken across the slightly distorted blade (with a distorted length of 134.4mm and a weight of 37.7g). The socket has a sub-oval mouth (21.8mm x 12.7mm external, 17.6mm x 10.0mm and 33.2mm deep) and has gently concave, waisted sides (with a minimum width of 18.6mm). The socket faces are gradually convergent towards the blade and have two perforations to secure handle, the upper perfora…
Created on: Wednesday 15th July 2020
Last updated: Monday 12th October 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-48018B
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age copper flat axehead, c. 2400 – 2200BC
The cast flat axe is fragmentary, represented by a butt fragment (with a surviving length of 63.4mm and a weight of 160.6g) and would have been from a large axe. The butt is wide and straight (with a width of 50.3mm and a thickness of 4mm). The sides of the axe were near-straight as far as the break and are gradually divergent (with a maximum width at the break of 58.7mm where the axe has a maximum thickness of 8.8mm). The sides are slightly rounded across their depths, producing a sub-rectangular body section. The axe face…
Created on: Thursday 25th June 2020
Last updated: Monday 22nd March 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-FCCC26
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of uncertain type, probably of Ewart Park metalworking phase (950 - 750BC) (Needham 1996).
The axe is incomplete, consisting of the blade and the lower faces and sides. The socket mouth, loop and moulding are all missing, leaving the axe with a length of 63.6mm and a weight of 127.38g. At the break, the exterior of the axe is roughly sub hexagonal in section, and is 34.5mm wide and 16.6mm thick, while the socket is sub-rectangular. The sides are moderately straight towards the break but diverge towards the blade end. The casting seams have been roughl…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Rhondda Cynon Taf', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-E834E4
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distal fragment of a knapped and pressure flaked knife likely dating to the Early Bronze age. The flake is made from a distal portion of a cortical flake of semi translucent unpatinated grey flint. The dorsal surface bears patches of cortex and invasive pressure flaking removal scars. The ventral surface blade edges have also been retouched to form the point and even, carefully shaped sides. The knife has a transverse diagonal break at the proximal end. The invasive pressure flaked retouch suggests an early bronze-age date. The cross section of the blade is plano-convex, suggesting …
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-58F2B5
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Caerphilly
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age bronze Transitional palstave, probably of Type Roundhay, as defined by Schmidt & Burgess (1981, p. 149)[1], Ribbed Variant and of Penard or Wallington metalworking industry, of Needham's Periods 5 -6, dated to c. 1300 - 1150BC
The palstave is near-complete, missing the loop but is heavily-corroded and is comparatively small (with a length of 108.6mm and a weight of 194.6g). The butt is straight, now worn to a slight angle (with a width of 18mm and a thickness of 5mm). The sides are near parallel, very gently convex (reaching a width of 23.5mm above the loop a…
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 12th June 2023
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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-8173CF
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Ribbed socketed axe fragment, probable South Wales type
Dimensions: Maximum surviving length 48.6mm; maximum surviving width at mouth 40.9mm; thickness of mouth 5.3-7.2mm; width of upper loop 4.0mm; dimensions runner-stubs (1) near loop 8.3 by 2.9mm; height 0.1mm; (2) face 6.6 by 2.9mm; height 0.1mm; surviving weight 39.4g.
This is an upper face and partial mouth fragment of a ribbed bronze socketed axe. The axe has a collar, which in profile is vertical rather than everted, with a slightly convex shape and slight rounding at the upper and lower edge margins. A narrow upper lo…
Created on: Monday 5th 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-34C32C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Descriptions
Socketed axe fragment
Dimensions: surviving length 24.5mm; surviving width 50.8mm; width at break 42.0mm; thickness at break 12mm; weight 54.8g.
This is the lower blade and cutting edge of a socketed axe, broken across the internal socket aperture in antiquity. The cutting edge is worn and damaged so the original edge no longer survives, but curved shape and the curved expanding nature of the sides suggest it may have originally possessed slightly flared tips. The incomplete nature of this axe means it cannot be definitely assigned a type.
The break has occ…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-B5E854
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Plain Pegged Spearhead with flame-shaped blade of Type 11 A - largely complete, two fragments (metal-detector find, number 9)
Dimensions: Surviving length approx. 195.0mm; max. blade width 46.6mm; max. blade length approx. 154.0mm; surviving socket length approx. 41.0mm; surviving external diameter of socket at break 25.9mm; depth of socket - unknown, as obscured by concretion; diameter of surviving peg hole approx. 5.7mm; surviving weight (prior to conservation) 190.2g.
Dimensions of small socket fragment: max. surviving length 10.3mm; surviving width 7.5mm; thickness…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd 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-4811C9
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age dirk of Penard or Wallington metalworking Industry, dated to c. 1300 - 1000BC
The cast dirk is complete but now distorted across the mid blade (with a distorted length of 282mm, a straightened length of approximately 288mm and a weight of 94.4g). The butt is flat-topped, slightly angled (23.0mm wide and 1.8mm thick). There are two rivet notches beneath the butt and on the sides (of 8.5mm diameter, with their midpoints 9.6mm beneath the butt and giving a minimum butt width of 17.5mm). There is no clear hilt mark but there is the suggestion of a curving mark from the …
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-47B802
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flanged axehead
The cast axehead is complete (with a length of 87.2mm and a weight of 129.3g) but has lost much of the original surface. The butt is straight and thin (with a width of 17mm and a thickness of 0.8mm). The sides are near-straight and parallel as far as the position of the bevel on the faces (where the axe has a width of 21.6mm, a thickness of 11.5mm and a maximum depth, including flanges of 14.9mm). The sides are decorated with diagonal ridges and are slightly convex and gently rounded across their depths. Below the stop the sides widen gradually before …
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-B18276
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age knife or razor probably of Late Bronze Age date
The knife or razor is of crescent form and appears to be near-complete but is perhaps missing a tang (with a length of 51.3mm, a height of 40.1mm and a weight of 43.9g). The blade edge is concave with a deep-arched back. The blade tips at both ends may have been elongated, as suggested shallowing to the curve at the back. One tip has a small semi-circular notch (3.3mm diameter), possibly the remnants of a rivet attachment hole and if correct, may suggest a slight tang on that side. There is an irregular long notch (12.5m long…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-AF1FCC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy mount or fitting of uncertain function and date, probably of Late Bronze Age or Iron Age date and possibly a scabbard chape.
The possible cast mount is complete (with a length of 23.5mm, a height of 22.9mm and a weight of 18.0g). The mount is of bulbous bi-lobed form (21.5mm wide and 13.1mm thick) with a curving point projecting from each lobe. At the centre is a shallow rounded groove, widest at the base. Both lobes are decorated with prominent ribbing defined by grooves. The lobes terminate in gently curving points of rounded D-shaped section, slightly flattened on t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 21st June 2018
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