Record ID: NMGW-DDBC06
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy sestertius of Postumus (r. AD 260-269) dating AD 260-269 (Reece Period 13). VIRTVS AVG reverse type, as RIC V Postumus 184, mint of Lugdunum. Obverse: Bust of Postumus, laureate, draped, right Obverse Legend: [I]MP C POSTVMVS P [F] AVG Reverse: Soldier, draped, cuirassed, standing right, holding spear in right hand and leaning on shield with left hand, flanked by SC Reverse Legend: VIRTVS AVG Die Axis: 6 o’clock Diameter: 31.3mm Thickness: 3.8mm Weight: 18.98g
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-8A5C25
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe, of likely class 2D Halberton type (Needham 2017) dating to 2400BC - 2200BC. The axe is near-complete but with significant surface losses, and some corrosion. It has a surviving length of 96.2mm. The original blade edge has been lost and is now moderately rounded, with a surviving width of 51.28mm. From the blade edge the body of the axe gradually narrows in shape and curves inwards. The axe gradually gets thicker in the centre (with a maximum thickness of 9.94mm) and tapers off towards the butt, creating a broadly lentoid profile with sli…
Created on: Monday 19th September 2022
Last updated: Saturday 3rd June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-39C896
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near-complete cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of Developed T-shaped type and subclass of Hull type T105-111, T119-120, T122, T126-129, T132, T141-142; Mackreth 2011, CD H 2.a2. no. 2215; Bayley and Butcher 2004, 167, fig. 138. The brooch is mostly intact with an overall length of 44.6mm. The sub-cylindrical wings span 21.4mm in width and are 3.9mm diameter at the ends and widen towards the head (where the dimensions are 6.3mm deep x 5.0mm thick). The wings are decorated with three equidistant incised grooves along the front but do not extent to the top, botto…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-E37433
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Published
Large complete pegged spearhead of Late Bronze age date of Blackmoor or Ewart Park metalwork tradition, corresponding with the end of Needham's (1996) Period 6 to Period 7 and dated to c. 1000 - 750BC. The socket is gently convex below the blade, giving it the impression of bowing-out. The base of the socket is circular to the position of the circular peg holes (6mm diameter), positioned 40mm from the end. Above the peg holes, side and face ridges develop, giving the socket a sub-square profile. The side ridges run into the beginning of the blade and the face ridges develop into a …
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-215EBE
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead fragment of uncertain type, of Middle to late Bronze Age date The spear is fragmentary, represented by the upper part only (with a surviving length of 43.4mm and a weight of 10.9g). The top of the circular socket is evident at the base of the fragment (with a diameter of 6.8mm and a depth of 19mm). The socket defines a prominent rounded midrib on the exterior (with a maximum surviving thickness of 9.0mm), which narrows gradually to the tip. The blade appears comparatively straight along the fragment, possibly suggesting a leaf-shaped blade (with a …
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW3325
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age basal-looped spearhead. Length 220mm and 32mm wide across the widest part of the leaf-shaped blade. The socket, encircled by three lightly engraved lines, is 50mm and 16-17mm in diameter at the mouth where it is approximately circular in cross section; further up, the section is sharply angular. Because part of the wooden shaft remains firmly wedged in place it is not possible to known how far the hollow socket extends. There are two neatly formed loops at the base of the blade, one a little larger and lower than the other. The two halves of the mould have been very s…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW314
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy spearhead, tanged, of Type 1B Curved Midrib (following Davis 2012, 33f.) and dating to the Arreton phase of the Early Bronze Age (c.1700-1500 cal. BC) (Needham et al. 1997). The spearhead survives in two pieces, broken across the blade-tang junction. It has a long triangular blade bevelled at the edge, with a rounded midrib and (blade wings with) two distinct steps parallel to the edge of the blade. The central mid-rib is filled, on both sides, with rows of pointille (punched dot) decoration. The tip of the blade is missing and the blade edges are damaged. The junction of…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-8CD44C
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead of Davis' (2015) Type 11A, which covers Generic pegged spearheads with flame-shaped blades, dating to the Wilburton or Ewart Park metalworking industry (c.1120-800 BC) (following Needham et al. 1997). The spearhead is complete and retains the sediment in the socket (with a length of 159mm and with a weight of 144.7g, including sediment and 126.2g without). The socket is near-circular (with a diameter of 27.9mm - 28.6mm, 25.4mm internal and 110.1mm deep). There is no evidence for a lip at the mouth or decoration around the socket. The sides of the…
Created on: Monday 9th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-A13DB1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete cast copper alloy Hod Hill type brooch of Roman date (c. AD 43-70). The brooch is complete except for the rolled edge of the catchplate and the missing axis bar and pin the bow is also distorted slightly. The brooch is probably of Mackreth’s (2011) Hod Hill type 1.a1a. The 10.1mm wide head is rolled, bifurcated, and expanded, narrowing to 4.9mm wide before joing with the top of the flat bow, which expands to 7.1mm wide above the wings. The upper bow hasis decorated by three parallel ridges running 13.2mm from the head to a transverse flute and ridge separating th…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-66D68D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Iron Age copper alloy brooch of La Tène I and of Hull & Hawkes (1987, p 95 - 106)[1] type 1Ba and of 4th or 3rd century BC date The one-piece brooch is near-complete, missing the pin (with a length of 52.2mm, a depth of 15.8mm and a weight of 13.8g). The spring is of circular-sectioned wire (of 2.1mm – 2.5mm diameter) and coils twice each side of the bow (with a width of 16.1mm and a diameter of 8.1mm) and has an external chord, above the spring. There is a ferrous rod or axis bar surviving within the spring (of 3 – 4mm diameter), indicating a ‘mock…
Created on: Friday 12th February 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-A948C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Langton down brooch of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date (c. 25-60 AD). The brooch is likely of Mackreth Type LD 3a (2011, Pg.34, plate 20, No 6484). The brooch consists of the intact bow with rounded foot, wings and spring. The pin has broken off just as it leaves the spring mechanism, and the openwork catchplate is evident only as two broken sheet stubs projecting from the back of the bow. The wings are nearly cylindrical and uneven, having been hammered thin and worked almost all the way around the top and bottom of the spring, which is still held…
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-AE0ED6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy brooch of Colchester Derivative Polden Hill type, dating to the Roman period (c. 75-175 AD). The brooch is missing part of its bow and spring as well as the whole catchplate and foot. The head of the brooch is formed by an 8.5mm wide flat-topped plate, joined at a right angle to the top of the bow. This plate projects backwards, thickening on the underside but with near-parallel sides until it joins the wings 6mm from the top of the bow. The top of the bow has an integral 7.6mm long perforated lug. The 3.9mm thick, 2.6mm high wings are angled back sligh…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-566D87
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of cast copper alloy bracelet, dating to the Iron Age or early Roman periods. The remaining segment of bracelet is simple in form, being a curved semi-lenticular sectioned strip, with a flat inside face and convex outer face. One end of the strip terminates in a single central perforated lug which has broken at the perforation, the other terminates in a break. The perforated lug measures 2.6mm wide, 6.1mm long and 4.1mm thick, and would have joined to another segment of bracelet in a similar fashion to a tenon into a mortice. This is the thickest surviving portion of the …
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Saturday 27th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-9D93F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Hod Hill type and of 1st century AD date The brooch is incomplete, missing the pin and foot (with a surviving length of 32.6mm, a depth of 7.9mm and a weight of 2.3g). The hinged spring was secured within a rolled head (10.2mm wide). The upper bow has straight parallel sides (6.5mm wide) and is decorated with a central rib (giving a thickness of 1.9mm), flanked by shallow grooves. There were no side lugs on the bow. The upper bow is separated from the leg by double horizontal ribs (with a width of 9.9mm). The leg has straight convergent sides towards th…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-8301FD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Decorative gold ring with a projecting oval bezel of lunate form, set with a small uncut (en cabochon) turquoise. There is a small transverse gold ledge on each side of the bezel at the junction with the hoop, decorated with parallel engraved lines ('combed' fashion). The shoulders are also cast with two small zoomorphic heads, snouts pointing towards the bezel. Each head, seen from above, has pointed ears, almond-shapes eyes and a short snout. The raised bezel measures 5.4 x 7mm, and the thickness including stone is 3.4mm. The hoop has an internal diameter of 18mm, and extern…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-115AD5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description The object is a decorative gold ring with a deep oval bezel (height 5.7mm), once set with a small uncut (cabochon) stone, perhaps a sapphire. There is a small transverse ridge on each side of the bezel at the junction with the hoop, and the lower half of the bezel is chamfered to give a truncated biconical profile. The hoop is slightly misshapen and incomplete, and of circular cross-section. Bezel diameter 8.2 x 6.5mm; hoop thickness 1mm at bottom, 1.9mm at junction with bezel; bezel height 5.7mm; weight 1.69g. Summary and conclusions The Mathern finger ring has a form …
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-C90A23
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Published
The bodkin is complete but distorted and bent around its mid-section (with a distorted length of 70.4mm, a straightened length of approximately 142mm and a weight of 10.5g). The bodkin has a bowl terminal (5.6mm wide and 2.5mm deep) surmounted on the top of the shaft, which has a aperture, now filled with sediment. The top of the shaft has straight and near-parallel sides (5.3mm wide and 2.3mm thick), which are faceted to produce a hexagonal section. The top third of the bodkin is decorated on both faces with rectangular panels filled with incised geometric decoration and defined by tr…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-42B662
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age copper alloy terret fragment of indeterminate type and probably of 2nd century BC to 1st century AD date The cast fragmentary terret is heavily-corroded and represented by the incomplete bar, terminal and basal part of the hoop or ring (with a surviving length of 40.9mm and a weight of 12.7g). The bar is of sub-rectangular to oval section and now expands towards the terminal (with a width of 5.6mm - 8.5mm and thickness of 3.8mm - 6.5mm). The corroded terminals were expanded and of oval section (10.9mm x 9.4mm), there is the suggestion that the collar may have been enhanced wit…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-A73037
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy brooch of Headstud type, dating to the Roman period (c. 75-200 AD). The brooch is heavily worn and difficult to identify a subtype. The brooch is missing its foot, catchplate, mechanism, pin, much of the wings and the composite headstud itself, while the surface of the bow is heavily damaged. The head of the bow has two wings with an incomplete width of 17.6mm, incomplete height of 6.1mm and an incomplete depth of 3.3mm. The reverse of the wings is broken nearly flat, with the original surface remaining only as a shallow groove (likely holding the axis …
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-EFD231
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Trumpet type and of AD 100-200. The brooch is fragmentary missing the lower part of the leg, catch-plate and spring (with a surviving length of 42.2mm, a surviving depth of 16.0mm and a weight of 9.4g). The missing spring was secured around a single lug behind the head, now truncated. The oval trumpet head (13.0mm long and 10.5mm wide) is corroded at the edges and may have ben of sub-triangular form. The sides of the upper bow are concave and widen to the button. The button is now worn and corroded but may have been of acanthus form. The leg is of D-shaped…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2023
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