Record ID: NMGW-340E0E
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver gilt dress-hook in the form of an openwork lozenge, embellished with small cast pellets on the front face, and larger knobs terminating the outer angles. A quatrefoil has been riveted to the centre of the design, which also has a form of two-strand interlace (resembling chain links). On the reverse of the lozenge is a plain bar loop, which has a circular cross-section. Gilding may become apparent on conservation. The end of the hook is missing. Dimensions: Overall length 36.3mm; maximum width 25.1mm; height of lozenge 26.7mm; thickness including pellets 3.5mm;…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-32905B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description Silver gilt posy ring, very worn on outside but probably once gilt all over. The broad hoop has a plain outer surface, and a flattened D cross-section. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: FEARE + GOD + ONLY, in Roman capitals. Internal hoop diameter 19 mm; external hoop diameter 22.7 X 22.5mm; band width 5.4 mm; band T. 1.5mm; weight 4.77g.
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Saturday 29th February 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-30ACA3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The two silver items are both fragmentary: Fragment 1: a small rectangular piece of hack-silver, cut from a silver vessel. All four edges have been cut, and there is a hesitant transverse cut running inside one of the longer edges. Both faces of the silver are plain, and the fragment is flat. Maximum length 14mm x width 9.1mm x thickness 2.6mm. Weight 2.27g. Fragment 2: small 'pie-slice' fragment from a circular lid or vessel rim, with a plain bevelled edge. The surviving rim diameter can be estimated at about 9-10cm. Maximum length 15.6mm x width 16.45 x maximum thickness…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-47E80B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin A contemporary copy of a William I (1066-87) penny. Uncertain mint and moneyer. cf. BMC 6, North 846, sword type (1079-82) but with a crude bust and the sword to the right 18.5mm - 18.7mm diam.; 0.5mm thick; 1.26g Martin Allen says of the coin: A contemporary imitation, probably produced in south Wales or the Welsh March (cf. Edward Besly, BNJ 86 (2016), p. 148 and Pl. 24, no. 197). I would read the inscriptions as follows: Obv. +IMII+D[R?]I+II Rev. +DVNI+I[ ]IIID
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-B1A80D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver coin Aethelraed II penny CRVX type BMC iii a, North 770 (c. 991-7) [ M].OGI[ ] Uncertain moneyer; uncertain mint (possible mints: Gloucester [GL--], Ilchester [GIFELSCT] or Ipswich [GIPESWIC]) 0.70g, incomplete and in two fragments
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-FEB876
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver coin Charles I (1625-49) half groat, London Group D, privy mark: Tun (1637-8) North 2575 1.00g, pierced but without a loss of metal
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-ED70E6
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
~~Medieval lead pilgrim's ampulla of 15th or 16th century date The ampulla is incomplete, missing much of the neck on one face (with a length of 47.9mm and a weight of 26.2g). The mouth is damaged and not present on one face (with a width of 25.6mm). The neck appears to have had straight sides, slightly converging towards the body. No decoration is evident on the surviving neck. One of the suspension loops survive, now distorted and is angular, with a perpendicular return positioned between the top of the body and the lower part of the neck (with a length of 9.3mm). The body of the a…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-ED113B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver coin Incomplete and burnt denarius of uncertain emperor, probably of late 1st or early 2nd century AD date 2.2g
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-ECF9A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Trumpet type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is incomplete, missing the pin and lower part of the leg (with a surviving length of 35.5mm, a surviving depth of 17.0mm and a weight of 9.1g). The missing pin appears to have been hinged, rather than sprung, as is more usual on Trumpet brooches. At the rear of the head is a groove to accommodate the axis bar and at the centre a square recess to allow the pin to hinge. The hinge was likely to have been enclosed but is now truncated. The trumpet head is oval (16.8mm wide and 11.4mm long) and no…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D91596
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver coin Charles I (1625-49) half groat, London Reverse inscription: IVSTITIA THRONVM FIRM[AT] 0.63g, worn, battered and holed
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D901B4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver coin James I (1603-25) sixpence for Ireland, struck in London (legal tender in England and Wales at 4 1/2 pence First coinage (1603-4), privy mark: Bell Spink 6514 1.43g, worn and bent
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D8EA21
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver coin Elizabeth I (1558-1603) sixpence, London Privy mark and date illegible 2.06g, worn
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D8D265
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver coin Henry VII (1485-1509) half groat, Canterbury Facing bust type (Class IIIb), with rosette stops and Tun initial mark (c. 1490-1500) North 1712 1.20g
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D8AF92
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin Incomplete 'Short Cross' halfpenny, probably Class 5 (1205-9) or later Uncertain mint and moneyer with several possibilities [Io]han 0.35g
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D89D4D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle of 14th to 16th century date The buckle has an oval frame with ornate outside edge and a solid, integral plate and is missing the pin (with a slightly distorted length of 46.3mm and a weight of 16.5g). The outside edge is expanded and of sub-circular section with protruding rounded ends (giving a length of 26.3mm, a diameter of 6.6mm - 7.4mm). At the centre of the outside edge is a notch for the missing pin. The sides of the frame are convex and of slender rectangular section (with a maximum width to the frame of 28.3mm and with a section of 2.2mm wide a…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-D8445B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of T-shaped 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 34.7mm, a surviving depth of 15.3mm and a weight of 14.2g). The missing pin was hinged within tubular wings, now truncated (with a surviving width of 24.2mm and a diameter of 9mm). The axis bar remains within the wings and is made of iron and iron corrosion staining at the rear of the head suggests that the pin was also iron. There is the suggestion of vertical ribbing on the front of the wings but corr…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-440559
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy enamelled Trumpet-derivative bow brooch, probably of type Wroxter type and of 1st to 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, missing the leg, pin and head-plate (with a surviving length of 35.7mm, a surviving depth of 14.5mm and a weight of 13.3g). The spring is secured around a copper alloy axis bar and attached through perforations each side of the head. The trumpet-derivative head is of D-shaped form (16.5mm wide and with a surviving length of 19.5mm). The sides of the head have two grooves, defining ribs and with the rounded underside, echoes the internal …
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-1B5576
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age copper alloy bead from a beaded torc of 1st to early 2nd century AD date The bead is near-complete and is of irregular, sub-triangular form but with a concave recess that is flanked by protruding knops at each vertex (with a length of 23.4mm, a width of 26.7mm and a weight of 6.5g). At the centre is a sub-square aperture (8.2mm x 7.7mm) through the flat-sectioned plate (2.2mm thick) to accommodate the missing iron rod, on which the beads would have been 'strung' flanked by spacers. The faces of the flat plate are somewhat irregular and not less finished. The two forward-f…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-6030C2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle of oval frame and integral rigid plate type, of mid-13th or 14th century date The buckle is probably near-complete, perhaps missing the attachment end (with a length of 41.4mm and a weight of 4.0g). The outside edge is embellished with an integral bilobed openwork device, probably a crown. The frame is oval (giving the buckle a maximum width of 13.2mm) and is of sub-rectangular section (with a width of 1.7mm - 2.7mm and a thickness of 2.2mm). There is a circular perforation behind the frame to accommodate the copper alloy pin (with a length of 13.5mm). Th…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-5D8633
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Trumpet type and of Chester sub-type (Hull's Type 154) and Bayley and Butcher 2004, Group C of 2nd century AD dated The brooch is incomplete, missing the foot, catch-plate and spring and is heavily-corroded (with a surviving length of 39.7mm, a surviving depth of 20.0mm and a weight of 6.1g). The missing spring was secured around a perforated lug, at the rear of the head. Iron corrosion around the lug suggests that an iron axis bar and possibly also an iron spring was employed. The trumpet-head is oval (10.2mm long and 9.5mm wide) with no surviving …
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-5D4879
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint knife or awl, probably of Neolithic date The knife is incomplete with the tip fragment represented (with a surviving length of 32.2mm, a maximum thickness of 4.0mm and a weight of 2.3g). Although the knife appears to have broken across its width (where it has a width of 15.5mm), there appears to be retouch over the break, perhaps suggesting the tip was deliberately backed and implying a possibly secondary use as an awl. Both sides are retouched along their entire surviving lengths, as they converge to the tip. The retouch is confined to the dorsal surface, although …
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-5CEEAD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy contemporary copy of a Roman nummus (maiorina) of Constantius II (AD 323-361), dating to the period AD 353-361 (Reece Period 18). FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse type, depicting a soldier advancing left, spearing a fallen horseman. Copying unclear mint. 1.28g, corroded
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-623A54
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age bronze Wessex dagger of Camerton-Snowshill Series (following Gerloff 1975) or Series 5D (following Needham 2015), and of Needham's (1996) Period 4-5, probably dating from c. 1600 to 1400BC The dagger is incomplete, missing the hilt and is slightly distorted (with a surviving length of 112.1mm and a weight of 31.5g). The damaged butt is now of indeterminate form (with a maximum surviving width of 30.7mm and a thickness of 0.8mm) but there is the remains of a rivet hole or notch at the apex of the centre (of approximately 5.3mm diameter). The dagger thickens at its …
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-6216A4
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age bronze ogival dagger of Camerton-Snowshill Type (following Gerloff 1975), or Series 5D (following Needham 2015) and of Needham's (1996) Period 4-5, probably dating from c.1600 to 1400BC. The dagger is incomplete, missing the tip and with peripheral damage (with a surviving length of 67.8mm and a weight of 32.2g). The butt end is eroded and of uncertain form but now with a straight top edge (with a surviving width of 25.6mm and a minimum thickness of 1.8mm), possibly suggesting it was originally of trapezoidal form. There appears to have been three rivet holes, for…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-DAB2C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver coin PENNY OF ÆTHELSTAN I OF EAST ANGLIA (c.827 - c.845) Obv. +EDELZTANREX; diademed bust r.; 'neck' formed by a single row of six pellets, chin and mouth by single pellets Rev. +Mo.N | MONE | T:.A in three lines, separated by horizontal lines of pellets with hooked ends, the text of the middle line inverted. (The letter 'N' appears throughout as 'H'.) Weight: 1.27g; Die-axis: 315º approx.. Portrait type, c.827-30; North 437 var., cf. BMC 5; Naismith E31.1c. The coin appears to be from the same obverse die as Naismith E31.1c (recorded and illus…
Created on: Friday 11th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-C21D78
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy Early Bronze Age flanged axehead. This axehead has a rounded arched butt and slightly diverging sides that abruptly expand to a broad crescentic blade and cutting edge, with the blade tips at right angles to the sides, but not recurving. Cast flanges extend along the sides, rising very gradually from the butt towards the middle of the axe and sloping down again to the blade expansion. This gives the axe a very shallow lenticular side profile. The flanges are slightly triple-faceted, so are slightly angled inwards on both faces and on one side very faint trac…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-1DA363
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver bodkin-type dress pin. The object is the lower shaft and point of a silver bodkin-type dress-pin. The lower end of the slot on the bodkin survives, and it is likely that when complete it also had a perforation (eye) at one end. The shaft has a flattened quadrangular cross-section with bevelled edges, and is undecorated. The pin is bent, and has not received any conservation. Length (bent) 64.3mm; maximum width 4mm; maximum thickness 1.7mm; weight 3.08g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-19DF6E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval silver fede or fidelity ring, very worn on outside but probably once gilt. The broad hoop has a plain outer surface, and a flattened D cross-section. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: I ˣ LIKE ˣ MY ˣ CHOYSE, in Roman capitals. Internal hoop diameter 19.7 mm; external hoop diameter 22.3mm; band width 6 mm; band T. 1mm; weight 4.25g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2017
Last updated: Monday 14th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-0B9997
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age hoard of two incomplete flanged axes and one spearhead. 1. and 2. Class 5Db Long-flanged axe (2 conjoining fragments) Dimensions: surviving length blade fragment 1 - 71.9mm; surviving length butt fragment 2 - 28.2mm; combined total length approx.108.8mm; blade width (fragment 1) - 47.9mm; butt width fragment 2 - 21.0mm; maximum thickness at flanges (fragment 1 ) - 17.5mm; maximum height of flanges (fragment 1) - 3.0mm; weight fragment 1 - 154.1g; fragment 2 - 28.3g; combined weight 182.4g. These are two conjoining fragments of a complete, slender, bronze flan…
Created on: Thursday 20th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-6719BC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy ring of flattened D cross-section, and slightly mishapen. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text Fear God love me in italic script, preceded with a small rectangular hall mark with the initials AP. The ascenders on the d of the text turn to the left, ending in a small loop. The ascenders on the 'l' turn to right, ending in a small loop. These features can be seen in early eighteenth-century writing guides, such as George Shelley's Penna Volans, after ye English, French & Dutch Way, of c. 1710, and examples of business writing of about 1711 (Whalley 1980, 252-3…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-63CDFB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Ninety-one Roman denarii, principally of the first and second centuries A.D. As found the coins are in differing conditions, some fresh, some encrusted with corrosion products, perhaps the result of contact with vegetable matter in the form of grass which appears to have been deliberately included within the container of the coins. A detailed study must therefore await conservation of the coins. The coins were contained within the remains of a pottery vessel The latest coin in the hoard is a denarius of Marcus Aurelius, dating to his eighteenth tribunician year, or A.D. 163-4. T…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-3DF7B9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is a small silver annular brooch. The frame is decorated for half of its circumference with a four-faced cable twist, each facet bearing two rows of small punched dots. The opposite half of the frame is plain, with a circular cross-section. The pin shaft is missing, and the narrowing of the frame shows where the head of the pin was once secured. Internal diameter 12.5mm; external diameter 14mm; frame thickness 1.2mm; thickness of restriction for pin 0.75mm; width of pin head (suggested by restriction of frame) 2mm; weight 06g. A number of annular brooches with …
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3D934E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is a fragment of silver gilt 'fede' or devotional ring with a bezel in the form of a sacred heart, crowned by crossed fleur-de-lys, forming flanking heart-shapes. In other rings of this type, clasped hands may decorate the base of hoop. Maximum height 10mm; maximum width 13mm; weight 1.1g. In terms of design and style of the iconography, the ring is of fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century date. A very similar bezel design with heart sprouting two flowers occurs on a silver gilt finger ring from Firle, East Sussex, dated to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth …
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3D4027
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt decorative ring with repeating pattern of alternating half-flowers filling triangular panels, separated by a deep zig-zag moulding. The inside of the hoop is plain. Internal hoop diameter 19.5mm; external hoop diameter 23.7mm; band width 6.5mm; band thickness 1.8-2.3mm; weight 6.3g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation The form of the ring is similar to that of some late fifteenth-century gold decorative rings. A similar flower motif occurs on a late medieval silver gilt decorative ring in the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A 6769-1860; Oman 1930, no. 269…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3D1996
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger ring in the form of a decorated band, tapering away from bezel. The decoration, which extends all along the external face, has been first engraved and then inlaid with niello (now only partially preserved, but represented by dark material in parts of the engraved design). Three quadrangular panels of ornament with single line borders, are each separated by fields of multiple engraved lines (wrigglework); similar narrow fields at each end are differ in having open outer borders (i.e. not closed by an engraved line). Maximum band width 9mm; minimum band width 4.4mm; max…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3C726B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Decorative gold posy-ring (incomplete). The hoop fragment is of flattened D cross-section. The outer surface is cast with a repeating pattern of circular and diamond-shaped cells, the former having small raised quatrefoils, the latter raised single dots. Raised dots fill the field between the cells and the plain borders. The areas between the raised decoration are inlaid with white enamel, most of which is now missing, with intervening raised gold spots and cells. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: FANCI , in Roman capitals. Hoop distorted and diameter unobtainabl…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-3C4796
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is a cast silver pendant in the form of a hanging trefoil leaf. It has a plain flat back, and an integral circular attachment loop. Traces of gilding are visible in the deeper recesses of the casting. Overall height 13mm; maximum width 8mm; maximum thickness 1.3mm; weight 0.7g. A number of silver or silver-gilt pendants with hanging flowers are known from England, such as one (possibly a fleur-de-lis) from Findon, West Sussex, attributed to the early sixteenth century (length 17mm; TAR 2005/6, no. 698), and a more elaborate example from Kings Somborne, Hampshir…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-3BF02D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age hoard of five objects. 1. Palstave butt end fragment Dimensions: Surviving length 24.7mm; butt width 23.5mm; max. thickness at break 11.2mm; surviving weight 25.9g. Small butt end fragment of palstave. In side view, the flanges reach the septum approximately 14mm below the butt end and there is some concavity and change of angle in the upper profile. The butt end is wide and angular, with a slightly convex curved top. On both faces of the upper septum, repeated scratch marks are evident and these look relatively recent. The break appears to have occurred in an…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-2B30C7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is a silver signet ring, now incomplete (part of hoop missing). It has a flat, circular bezel for the matrix, which has the form of a round-petalled quatrefoil within pellets in the inter-leaf spaces, within a single circular rope border. The shoulders are demarcated by simple transverse grooves, and the upper part of the hoop is decorated with triple vertical ridges and a random and unevenly punched pattern of open circles, presumably intended to represent pellets/pearls. A transverse groove and two hatched dashes below this indicate a change in the lower hoop dec…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-2B0CE9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is a fragment of silver gilt 'fede' or devotional ring with a bezel in the form of an angel holding a sacred heart, the angel's right wing being represented by ridges for feathers. The hoop at this pint has the form of a flat band. Height 12.5mm; overall width 8.7mm; thickness 3.2mm; hoop width 5.2mm; hoop thickness 2mm; weight 1.35g. The ring, which has broken into two sections, has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. In terms of design and style of the iconography, the ring is probably of fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century date. A similar bezel f…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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