Record ID: NMGW-9F0C64
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver hooked tag with a trefoil back-plate cut from a sheet and indented by filing, to which (on the reverse) a separate hook and bar loop have been soldered. Attached to the front of the plate by solder are three hollow hemispherical silver gilt bosses. Each is decorated with three single-strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire circlets, arranged around a small granulated pellet at the mid-point of each dome. Holding a flat central disc (in lieu of a foliate sheet) is a dome-headed rivet (boss and shank) with split pin which passes through a circular hole through the centre of the …
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-9F38B2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt ring in the form of a broad band with single beaded edges. The inner face is engraved with legend LEVE +TO +DYE ♣ in Roman capitals, with crosslets between words, and a trefoil at the end. The hoop, which has a fracture across it, has an internal diameter of 18.6mm. Weight 5.1g. Approx. metal content: silver, 98%; copper, 2%. The ring has a form and style of lettering typical of a 17th-century date. The inscription may be compared to mottoes such as 'Lets live & die in unity', 'Thee and i will louers die', 'thinke on me;' (Dalton 1912, nos 1234, 1300, 1302). The sty…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-DDBBF5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Published
A gold touch-piece of James II (1685-88). Such pieces formed part of the ceremony of 'touching for the King's Evil' (scrofula, believed to be cured by the monarch's touch); patients received a memento in the form of a 'touch-piece', suspended on a white ribbon. The early Stuart monarchs (James I, Charles I) used gold coins (angels), pierced to take a ribbon. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, special non-monetary gold pieces were made for the ceremony.
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-9A96E6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Silver bezel of a finger ring containing an orangey-red, cornelian, intaglio. The edge of the bezel is decorated by a line of triangles running round its bottom edge and the back by an engraved floral pattern. The intaglio depicts a winged male figure, probably Cupid, a large bunch of grapes and an animal, probably a hare. The intaglio would appear to be Roman, depicting Cupid, a bunch of grapes and a hare. The same combination can be seen on an intaglio from Bath (Henig 1978, 200 no.113) where cupid is holding a bunch of grapes and a hare is jumping up to reach it. On the present int…
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-B0C420
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt decorative roundel which once adorned the front of a dress-hook loop, to the back of which are soldered three sections of wire (which when complete formed the trefoil loop for the hook). The slightly domed silver gilt boss has a border of 'cable-twist' filigree wire, wound in a spiral to create two strands. Within this, there are five cable-twist 'filigree' wire circlets, and a small granulated pellet in the interspace. Metal content: silver, 96%; copper, 4%.
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2013
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Record ID: NMGW-DC6217
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of Hans Schultes I (active 1553-1584). 'Lion of Saint Mark' type inscribed 'SANTVS MARCVS ZV NOS' dating to 1553-1584. Minted at Nuremberg. See Mitchiner (1988, 397-398) nos 1324-1327
Created on: Tuesday 22nd April 2008
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-82C8C4
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete post-medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of Hans Schultes III (active 1608-1612) dating to 1608-1612. Rose/orb type inscribed GLICK KVMPT VON GOT IST WAR. Minted at Nuremberg. See Mitchiner (1988, 412-413) nos 1405-1407 Around half of the original flan survives, the rest lost to a relatively straight break.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-9980CB
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description The small oval matrix, in silver, retains the rectangular stub of the now missing handle, which was square in cross-section, on the reverse. The matrix is engraved with a cartouche bearing arms: cross engrailed with ermine in quarters, and scallop shell at cross base. The cartouche has three scrolls, and is flanked by two tapering motifs (staffs?), below small cups (chalices?). The matrix measures 15.5.x 18.1mm; the handle stem measures 3.5 x 3.5mm; the matrix thickness away from handle is 1.7mm; weight 5.66g. Summary and conclusions This is a heraldic seal, wi…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-E9EC71
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval toy hornbook made from lead, of 17th century date The lead tablet is near-complete; it is flat and rectangular with a short wide handle emerging from the centre of one of the shorter sides, which tapers slightly before ending in a circular terminal (diameter 16.2mm). The hornbook is however missing two of its rounded corner knops. It has a length of 88.7mm, a surviving width of 44.1mm, a thickness of 1.5-2.0mm and a weight of 27.2g. The front of the hornbook bears four rows of letters in relief comprising the alphabet. Each row is flanked and divided by a border of…
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-0A75C8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress-hook with a lozenge-shaped back-plate cut from a sheet and cusped around the edge, to which (on the reverse) a separate hook and bar loop have been soldered. Attached to the front of the plate by solder is a hollow, lozenge-shaped silver gilt box with chamfered sides. The top is decorated with four single-strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire circlets, arranged around hollow hemispherical bosses, and small granulated pellets. Similar decoration occurs on the bevels. Gilding does not extend along the full length to the hook.
Created on: Friday 15th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW3114
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy double-looped oval buckle with angled frame. There is a moulded decoration on the frame and lobed knops at either end of the narrowed strap bar. Dimensions 29mm x 24mm, weight 5 grams. Sixteenth to mid seventeenth century. For a close parallel cf. Whitehead 1996, 56, no.323).
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3115
Object type: WASTE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Lead, or lead alloy, waste 'header' from casting shot. There are eight separate runners spaced at 10mm intervals. Post-medieval. Length 63mm, weight 14.8 grams. Musket shot were usually centrally produced and supplied to troops; however, shortages often led to the production of local shot and a bullet mould was often supplied with a gun as a standard piece of equipment (Courtney 1988,3). Shot was manufactured in two-part moulds, usually hinged and made of iron (Courtney 1993, 159). The shot would have been separated from the runner by pincers when the casting had cooled. Excavations at…
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3116
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy spoon fragment including part of the bowl and stem. Length 44mm, weight 5.0 grams. The shape of the bowl suggests the spoon is probably sixteenth or seventeenth century in date.
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW312
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn 6d of William IV
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3125
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Elizabeth I threepence. Privy mark ermine and dated 1572.
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW376
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Jeton (reckoning counter). Nuremberg. Early sixteenth century
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW38
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Lead alloy broad spoon bowl stamped with initials " B D[?] T" (the letter D is enclosed with a shield-shaped panel). Dimensions of bowl 51-59mm. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW11
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete, cast copper alloy rowel spur. The horizontally straight sides, D-shaped in section, taper from the neck of the spur towards the terminal. One arm is broken halfway along its length, the other is complete but has a damaged terminal. Enough of the terminal remains to suggest that it was originally formed by two rings, set like a figure-of-eight, equally above and below the front of the spur side. The neck is short, starts horizontal and then tapers towards the downward bent rowel box. The back of the spur is decorated with an elongated lozenge motif made up of cast lines. Cor…
Created on: Friday 23rd July 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manorbier', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMGW115
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Miniature copper alloy (probably brass) gun, petronel, with hollow bore and touch hole. Externally, the top of the barrel is chamfered to give three faces with defined edges; there is slight chamfering on the underside of the barrel also. The barrel is undecorated. Part of the finger-guard is missing. Closely paralleled by an unprovenanced example (Bailey 1995, 45, no.8). Length 74mm, weight 15.3 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 8th September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW1174
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead, or lead alloy, token decorated on one side with a linear geometric design. Diameter 12mm, weight 1.461 grams. Sixteenth to eighteenth century in date.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monmouth', grid reference and parish protected.