Record ID: NMGW-A43EEE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy bar mount with a central lobe and non-integral rivets of medieval date (c. 1150-1450 AD). The mount is cast in one piece, with a central domed lobe decorated by three transverse grooves. The reverse of the central lobe is concave. The two terminal lobes are slightly rounded, with circular 2.2-2mm rivets fixed flush with the front of each lobe, projecting slightly from the back.  No’s. 1160 and 1161 in Egan and Pritchard (2002, pgs. 213-214, plate 134) are very similar in form, although with different decoration. The object has a dark patina with encrustin…
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A4259D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy lozenge shaped mount, with separate rivet and rove, dating to the medieval period (c. 1250-1450 AD). The head is formed by lozenge shaped (17.9mm long, 14.7mm wide) sheet of copper alloy pressed into a domed head, with concentric lozenge decoration. The separate rivet is fixed centrally, and still bears a separate circular rove internally. The edges of the very thin sheet copper alloy head are badly damaged and fragmentary. Length: 17.9mm Width: 14.7mm Thickness: 3.7mm Weight: 0.56g
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A4119D
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and damaged lead ampulla of Medieval date (c.AD 1350-1550). The ampulla comprises the circular base, which is damaged, missing the neck and mouth with surviving dimensions of 30.3mm diameter x 8.7mm thick and weighs 12.08g. Traces of a design in shallow relief preserve – on the more complete side, the design depicts an arc with a vertical line through the centre and a cross-hatched base below. Damage has removed the rest of the design but was likely a crown with a cross-hatched base. The hatch design continues on the other side, but most of the face is lost to old dama…
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A40EAB
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead object, likely a weight or a uniface token, of post Medieval date (c.1500-1850). The object is circular in plan (diameter 32mm) with max thickness of 6.4mm. The obverse of the object has moulded letters I S (or S I) with a circular moulding between. Traces of a further moulded circumferential design preserve above and below the central legend, and may have been a further legend, but cannot be discerned due to surface corrosion. The obverse is a mottled medium patina, the reverse is mostly light grey/buff. The object weighs 40.03g.
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A40981
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy sheet plate mount or fitting with gilding remnants and a rivet, likely of medieval date, potentially from a buckle. The plate is made of 0.8mm thick copper alloy sheet and was likely rectangular in shape, with two surviving parallel edges, the other two edges ending in uneven transverse breaks. A c. 3mm diameter, 3.65mm deep rivet is fixed equidistantly from the two surviving edges. The fixing of this rivet bent the plate inwards around the rivet. The front of the plate is decorated by double rows of punched decoration along both edges, and was once covered b…
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A405FA
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper alloy purse bar of Medieval date (early to mid 16th century AD). The purse bar is of Ward-Perkins (1940: 167-9, fig.52 no.B5) type and is near complete with a surviving length of 65.0mm. The central loop is squared in plan (22.4mm long x 14.9mm high) and the neck is decorated with a pair of moulded collars above and below a central sub-rectangular moulding. The loop perforates the bar through the central block and terminates in a sub-cylindrical knop (9.2mm diameter x 4.9mm thick). The overall height of the pin is 40.2mm. The central block (8.8mm thick) is …
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A3FE09
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman sestertius of an uncertain ruler dating to c.AD 41-100.
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A3D424
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of cast copper alloy bow brooch of uncertain type, of Early Roman date (c 43-200AD). The brooch consists only of the foot, catchplate and central lobed boss of the brooch, which terminates at the top in a transverse break. The lobed boss is flat with rounded edges in section with two uneven side projecting lobes and slight traces of moulded groove decoration on the front. Below the boss the brooch narrows and deepens, sweeping out behind into the solid catchplate with rolled edge. The foot tapers from c. 5mm wide below the boss to 1.1mm at the simple pointed foot terminal w…
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-3B7826
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy harness pendant of Medieval date (c. 1200- 1400 AD). The pendant is convex (with a concave reverse) and roughly discoidal with a 13.3mm long integral perforated attachment plate projecting from the top of the pendant. The original surface of the pendant is largely missing, and the surface of the whole is badly corroded. No trace of decoration can be seen but it may have originally been gilded. No. 23, pg. 23 in Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue: Part 1 (Saunders,1991) is a similar example. Length: 25.2mm Width: 11.7mm …
Created on: Wednesday 9th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-277494
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead circular seal matrix of Medieval date (likely 13th century AD). The matrix is of the flat circular type with a perforated lug and decorated reverse. The reverse bears a perforated lug at 12 o’clock (measuring 11.4mm long by 4.3mm wide) and decoration high relief. This decoration runs to the edges of the matrix and is in the form of an inverted modified fleur de lis emerging from the bottom of the lug. The flanking petals of the fleur de lis are strongly curled at the tips and the ends of the cross bar are flared like a cross pattée. The matrix is a maximu…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-26207C
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and badly damaged cast lead pointed oval (vesica) seal matrix of Medieval date (likely 13th century AD). The matrix is of the flat pointed oval (vesica) form, and is badly damaged- the matrix is distorted, cracked, and is missing the sections of the edge including the bottom point, rendering some of the inscription illegible. The reverse of the matrix is undecorated, with no evidence of a lug or raised rib. The inscription is executed in uneven, if large and deeply incised characters, with a small Greek cross initial marked squeezed between the first and last…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-24C12C
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped and pressure flaked barbed and tanged arrowhead Late neolithic to early bronze age (c. 2500 BC-1500 BC). Arrowheads such as this Sutton Type B arrowhead (Green 1980) are commonly associated with the emergence of the Beaker phenomenon in Britain. The arrowhead is made of grey semi translucent flint with cherty (likely fossil) inclusions. The arrowhead is missing its very tip and one barb (likely due to weakness in the cherty inclusion). The remaining barb is hollow based Length: 17.9mm Width: 15.7mm Thickness: 4.2mm Weight: 0.88g
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th December 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-15B687
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy possibly contemporary copy of a Roman radiate or nummus of an uncertain ruler, dating to the period AD 260-402. Uncertain reverse type, possibly depicting a bust. Unclear mint.
Created on: Monday 7th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-15998A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy contemporary copy of a Roman radiate (barbarous radiate) probably of Tetricus I or II (AD 271-274), dating to the period AD 275-285 (Reece Period 14). Probably SPES AVGG or SPES PVBLICA reverse type, depicting Spes walking left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. Copying Gallic mint.
Created on: Monday 7th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-91D3EE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An anonymous issue silver sceat of Early-Medieval date c.AD 680 - 700. Of series F, (Metcalf a.ia). Identified by finder as Abramson group 106 Series F 60. Mint and moneyer uncertain. Recorded in Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC number : 2021.0301) Diameter: 11.6mm Weight: 1.07g
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-7CCD14
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
A near-complete cast copper alloy zoomorphic mount in the design of an ox-head, probably a vessel escutcheon, of late Iron Age to early Roman date (c.100 BC – AD 100). The escutcheon depicts a stylized ox-head that is sub-rectangular in plan and profile (head length 37.4mm) with a circular loop (also rectangular in profile) extending from the top of the flattened head (17.4mm external diameter, 7.8mm internal diameter, 5.0mm thick). The ox head has two short horns that project from the forehead and curve inwards and upwards, one which is broken with the end missing in old damage. Th…
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 9th February 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-1434D5
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy post-medieval Nuremburg jetton, Rose/Orb series, issued by Wolff Lauffer I dating to 1554-1601.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-140E37
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy medieval Nuremburg jetton, Rose/Orb series, dating to c. 1480-1550.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-13ACB3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy post-medieval Royal farthing token of Charles I (1625-1649), Richmond "rounds" type 1a, 1625 (North 2275).
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-135AAF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver medieval long cross cut farthing of Henry III (1216-1272), Class 3, uncertain mint, 1248-1250 (North 986-8).
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
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