Record ID: NMGW-A748AC
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal The seal is near-complete missing the handle (with a surviving depth of 11.9mm and a weight of 24.0g). The handle stub is circular sub-sectioned (5mm – 6.mm diameter and with a surviving height of 7.5mm), turning at the break and appears to have been cut. The rear of the seal is gently convex without a rib. The seal die is circular (8.1mm – 8.6mm diameter). The central device comprises an incised diagonal semicircle with a perpendicular diagonal line forming a T with the semicircle, perhaps representing a bow and arrow or perhaps a boat incised at the wron…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-68BFB7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age copper alloy zoomorphic vessel mount or cup handle of 1st or 2nd century AD date The mount depicts a bird, probably a goose and is incomplete, broken at one end (with a surviving length of 28.5mm, a surviving depth of 23.0mm and a weight of 17.5g). The terminal of the mount is in the form of a bird’s head, with a protruding pointed beak of subtriangular section (3.6mm long). The start of the beak was defined by grooves, now corroded. The head of the goose is globular (with a maximum diameter of 11.5mm) and the eyes are inset with bright blue glass spherical beads (of 1…
Created on: Friday 12th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-689F2D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of uncertain type, probably of Trumpet or allied type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the leg and foot only (with a surviving length of 29.9mm, a surviving depth of 20.7mm and a weight of 6.3g). At the break, the leg is of fluted-rectangular section (3.0mm wide and 4.5mm thick) with straight sides converging towards the foot. Prominent grooves are evident running along both sides and a weaker groove along the front. The frontal groove is enhanced with punched marks, forming chevrons. The foot is of grooved…
Created on: Friday 12th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-688F43
Object type: TANKARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy tankard handle, probably of Roman period date, c. 1st or 2nd century AD The cast handle is fragmentary, represented by a little less than half of the original length (with a surviving length of 50.0mm, a surviving height of 32.8mm and a weight of 28.6g). The handle terminal or attachment plate is of trapezoidal form, longest at its attachment end (at 29.7mm, 23mm wide adjacent to the handle, 16mm long and 3.6mm thick at the side contrasting with a thickness of 4.4mm at the centre). The plate has two circular perforations (3.0mm diameter) for attachment to the tankard…
Created on: Friday 12th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3E43C7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy belt or strap mount, of 16th or 17th century date The cast mount is near-complete and is of quatrefoil form, comprising a cross with open circles between the arms (with a length and width of 24.2mm – 24.5mm, a thickness of 2.2mm and a weight of 4.6g). The terminals of the cross arms are expanded with a central knop. The centre of the mount is decorated with an incised, concave-sided lozenge. The grooves cross and extend onto the terminals. The rear of the mount has two integral attachment pins, now truncated (giving a maximum surviving depth of 5.4mm)…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3E344C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Polden Hill, of Transitional Type, Grp 2.a and of 1st or 4th century AD date The brooch is incomplete, missing the leg and pin (with a surviving length of 31.2mm, a surviving depth of 11.3mm and a weight of 9.5g). The long copper alloy spring is secured behind convex wings (36.0mm wide and 8.5mm diameter) by a ferrous axis and held between end lugs. The chord is tensioned by a wide hook above the head (4.5mm wide). The fronts of the wings are decorated with vertical grooves, enhanced with diagonal punched marks. One side has a circular perforation con…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3DE85D
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pilgrim’s ampulla of 14th to 16th century date The ampulla is near-complete missing one loop and part of the mouth (with a length of 46.1mm and a weight of 41.0g). The expanded mouth is open (with a width of 28.0mm and a depth of 9mm) but has a groove from pressed-closing on the obverse face. The neck is oval sectioned with concave sides (with a width and thickness of 18mm and 10.8mm respectively), there is no decoration evident on the neck. One of the loops survive, now folded against the neck and is comparatively short (with a length of 9mm). The ampulla is wide…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3DBB91
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 (with a surviving length of 30.1mm, a surviving depth of 9.3mm and a weight of 12.6g). The missing pin was hinged within tubular wings (with a width of 45.0mm and a diameter of 4.2mm – 6.0mm). Corrosion around the slot for the pin suggests that the pin was made of iron and iron is also evident at the ends of the wings, suggesting an iron axis bar. The fronts of the wings are decorated with vertical grooves and ribbing, now worn. The bow is of shallo…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3DA94B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint ‘Thumbnail’ scraper The scraper is complete (with a length of 23.1mm, a width of 22.8mm, a thickness of 9.2mm and a weight of 5.2g). The dorsal face has extensive invasive retouch and only the proximal edge area is not retouched. The retouch is characteristically steep, more pronounced at the distal end. There is a small patch of surviving cortex along the proximal edge. The flint is largely unpatinated. Thumbnail scrapers are often associated with Beaker material culture.
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-3D87F8
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy button-and-looped fastener of 1st century BC to mid-2nd century AD date The cast fattener is of trilobed or trefoil form and is incomplete, missing the loop on the rear (with a length of 15.2mm, a width of 18.6mm and a weight of 6.3g). The trilobed fastener comprises three sub-hemispherical knops (of 7.4mm – 8.0mm diameter and 8.0mm – 8.2mm thick). The surface is heavily-corroded but there is the possible suggestion of mouldings near the junction of the lobes. The rear is flat but the stubs of the loop are evident on the rear of two of the …
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3D67F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy rear-hook brooch of 1st century AD date. The brooch is incomplete, missing the spring and leg (with a surviving length of 31.1mm, a surviving depth of 10.0mm and a weight of 3.2g). The missing spring was secured behind convex wings, now truncated (with a surviving width of 19.0mm and a height of 5.3mm). The chord was tensioned by a hook at the head but it is unclear whether an axis bar was secured by perforated terminal lugs, now lost. The fronts of the wings are decorated with vertical ribbing, defined by grooves and enhanced with incised marks on the sides of…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-165DD6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval enamelled copper alloy shield-shaped harness pendant of 13th or 14th century date The shield-shaped pendant is near-complete but very heavily-corroded (with an overall length of 37.0mm and a weight of 4.1g). The pendant was hinged to a missing suspension mount by the oval loop at the apex (with a height of 9.0mm high, a depth of 4.4mm and 1.4mm - 3mm thick) with a circular perforation, containing the remnants of the iron axis pin. The shield-shaped pendant (28.0mm long, 23.0mm wide and 1.0mm - 1.9mm thick) is slightly truncated and battered. The decorative device was her…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field 233', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-164DC3
Object type: CANDLESTICK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
ate medieval to post medieval copper alloy candlestick of 15th to 17th century date The candlestick is fragmentary, missing the base and candle socket (with a surviving length of 178mm and a weight of 142.6g). The base of the stick has the circular-sectioned plug (7.0mm long and 14.0mm diameter) for attachment to the missing base. The stick has a decorative ridge above the basal shoulder and is decorated with a concentric groove, which is mirrored in a ridge on the upper most moulding (giving a maximum diameter of 18.9mm). A chevron rib is midway between the two lateral mouldings…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field 233', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-160969
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 fragmentary, represented by the basal half only (with a surviving length of 29.0mm, a maximum width of 30.3mm and a weight of 19.8g). The surviving surface is heavily corroded and little of the detail now survives. The obverse face is convex (giving a maximum depth of 10.4mm) and may have been decorated with fine ribbing, producing a corrugated surface, of Spencer’s (1990, p 59)[1] Type II and indicating the scallop shell, the emblem of Saint James and representing pilgrimage. Few of the ribs now surv…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-155FEB
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment, probably a blade edge fragment from a Bronze Age axe of undetermined type and date but possibly a fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe The axe is fragmentary, represented by a side fragment of a blade edge only (with a surviving width of 17.1mm, a surviving length of 25.5mm, a maximum surviving may possibly have broken across the base of a socket, possibly suggested by a depression on the break. Only a very short part of the blade edge survives (7mm). The casting seam is evident on the surviving side, with the suggestion that the sides are angled to t…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C1F836
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper pendent loop of 13th or 14th century date The pendent loop is complete but the attachment bar mount is lost (with a surviving length of 15.4mm and a weight of 0.6g). The loop is of quatrefoil form (13.2mm wide) and the frame is rectangular-sectioned (1.5mm wide and 2.1mm thick). The bar at the apex is of sub-rectangular section and has adhering iron corrosion, perhaps suggesting an iron bar mount. The surface has a dark-green patina. The pendent loop can be closely paralleled with an example excavated in London from mid to late 14th century context (Egan …
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field 224', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-AEA43C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Langton Down type and 1st century AD date The cast brooch is near-complete (with a length of 40.8mm, a depth of 13.4mm and a weight of 8.0g) and has been repaired in antiquity, replacing the sprung pin with hinged pin. The brooch originally employed a spring mechanism behind semi-cylindrical wings, open at the ends and on the rear (with a diameter of 6.8mm and a width of 17.9mm). The spring is wound around a copper alloy axis bar with three to four coils each side of the centre and the pin has broken where it emerges from the spring. A secondary p…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-AE8DAD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy terminal of uncertain date, possibly Roman The cast terminal is of faceted oval, onion-shaped form (with a length of 20.8mm, a diameter of 8.8mm – 12.3mm and a weight of 6.5g). There is a knop at the apex and a double-collar moulding at the base. Beneath the collar was an integral attachment pin, probably of rectangular section broken at the base. There is no surviving applied decoration on the terminal. The surface is corroded and pitted, largely stripped to red-brown metal with areas of pale green corrosion.  The missing component part that the terminal wa…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-AE5053
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy belt or strap mount of 16th or 17th century date The cast mount is complete (with a length of 21.0mm, a maximum width of 8.1mm and a weight of 1.7g) and is of sub-oval form, with an elongated knop at the apex and a spherical knop at the base. The sides are straight and convergent to the base and the mount is convex across its width and flat along its length. There is no decoration evident of the surface of the mount. The mount was attached using two integral pins, which have been neatly folded over the missing strap (giving the mount a depth of 6.6mm).
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-AE42C1
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 cast brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head only (with a surviving length of 16.0mm, a surviving depth of 8.0mm and a weight of 2.7g). The missing spring was secured around a pierced lug (5.5mm long, 6.2mm wide and 3.1mm thick with a diameter of 1.2mm) on the rear of the head. The trumpet-head is oval (7.9mm wide and 9.7mm long) and has a flat border before the bow of sub-triangular section. The bow has broken just beneath the head. The surface is corroded with a dark-green patina.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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