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Record ID: NMGW3345
Object type: FIXTURES AND FITTINGS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy, lozenge-shaped mount with a single, integral rivet. The front of the mount is decorated with a series of moulded pellets which form a decorative border and a central flower design. Possible traces of tinning adhere to the surface of the mount. Dimensions 24.5mm x 16mm. Although difficult to date precisely, the mount is paralleled by two examples recovered from fourteenth century contexts in London cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 200, nos.1078-1079.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3347
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Non-heraldic personal vessica-shaped lead, or lead alloy, seal matrix with a central, elongated feathered star design, and longitudinal and transverse ribs (in an arrangement similar to a fleur-de-lis motif) and damaged attachment loop on the reverse. The lower end of the matrix is missing. The legend reads: S' EDIth M.chI 'S (the seal of Edith Michaels?). Dimensions 31mm x 22.5mm , weight 12.5 grams. Late twelfth to fourteenth century in date.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3352
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Enamelled, shield-shaped horse harness pendant. Type I (Ward Perkins 1940, 118, fig.38). The pendant is cast in copper alloy (probably bronze) with an integral suspension loop, which is now slightly bent. It is decorated with a heraldic device made up of three chevrons. Although ancient enamels can change their colour as a consequence of burial, microscopic study suggests that the recessed chevrons may have originally been decorated with red enamel. The pendant is corroded and its sinister side is damaged. Height 43mm, width 27mm, thickness 2mm.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2001
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
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Record ID: NMGW3353
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a cast, copper alloy purse frame consisting of a sub-rectangular central block and one circular-sectioned shire arm which terminates in a button-like moulded terminal. The rove and part of the shank of the attachment loop remain intact; however, no decorative detail survives on the fragment. Worn and corroded. An example of Ward Type B purse bar (Ward Perkins 1940, 167-169, fig.52). Probably fifteenth to sixteenth century in date. Surviving length of horizontal bar 44mm, estimated length of horizontal bar 64mm.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3355
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Circular-shaped base of a possible, lead, or lead alloy, pilgrim ampulla. One side of the casting is plain, while the other may have been decorated with a simple design set within a circular border. The top of the casting is open having a deep concave mouth. The opening is not the result of modern damage; however, it is uncertain whether it is an original feature (in which case the tentative identification as an ampulla is incorrect) or the result of careful cutting. The casting was damaged during recovery. Diameter 31.5mm, thickness 8.5mm. Possibly medieval.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3357
Object type: FIXTURES AND FITTINGS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sub-rectangular mount, one side of which is plain and the other of which is decorated with an incised letter T on a hatched background [the letter T is a Middle English sacred Christian monogram/symbol representing the tau cross of cross of St Anthony). The upper corners of the mount form right angles while the lower corners are rounded giving the sub-rectangular mount a near shield-shaped form. Both the surfaces of the mount have been coated with a white metal, possibly tin or silver, and possible traces of inlaid niello are visible in the incised decoration. There is no …
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3358
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a copper alloy horse harness pendant with an integral suspension loop and curved, sloping shoulders. Only a corroded fragment of the pendant survives and it is not possible to identify its original form with certainty; however, the extant sloping shoulders suggest that it may be an example of a Type V, quatrefoil pendant (Ward Perkins 1940, 118, fig.38). No evidence of decoration survives; however, the pendant is perforated by a sub-rectangular fixing hole c.11mm below the suspension loop suggesting that it may have been embellished with an appliqué mount or stud. Survivin…
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3390
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Henry VI 1422-61. Penny annulet issue 1422-27. Calais mint (clipped).
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3391
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Cruciform cast copper alloy fitting decorated on one side with an incised fleur-de-lis design against a hatched background and on the other side with an incised central checkerboard design made up of nine squares with a simple border against a hatched background. The fitting forms an equal-sided Maltese type cross, remnants of a flash line suggest that it was cast in a two-part mould. A central perforation runs through the longitudinal (as defined by the fleur-de-lis motif) axis of the fitting. The perforation is slightly worn at the base of the fitting. Although no close parallels ca…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3393
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Plain ring which is cast from a copper alloy and has a near plano-convex section with its inner edge being flat while its outside consists of a raised central cordon with a distinct medial ridge and short flanged edges. The flanged edges of the ring are badly damaged but show no sign of preferential wear which could be expected of the ring was an item of harness. It is large for a finger ring, having an internal diameter of 21.5mm and an external diameter of 28mm; however, the inside is worn smooth in a manner consistent with the wear on a finger ring which has been removed and replac…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3394
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Blaenau Gwent
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy vessel, leg, sub-trapezoidal in section. The outer edge and sides are decorated with longitudinal grooves. The leg tapers towards its rounded base. The weight of the vessel leg suggests that the copper alloy was leaded. Probably the leg of either a cauldron, skillet, jug or ewer. Close dating is not possible because the form of vessel legs remained similar from the late medieval period until the seventeenth century (Read 1995, 95). Length 46.5mm, maximum width 31.5mm, maximum thickness 20mm. Thirteenth to seventeenth century.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3396
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy purse bar. The shield-shaped central block is incised on one side with the legend IHS, and on the other side it is inscribed with the letter T [The legend IHS is Middle English in origin from the late Latin representing the Greek IHS as an abbreviation of Ièsous 'Jesus'. It is used in both manuscripts and as a symbolic/ornamental monogram. It is often taken as an abbreviation of various Latin phrases: Iesus Hominum Salvator 'Jesus saviour of men', In Hoc Signo (vinces) 'In this sign (thou shall conquer)' and In Hac Salus 'In this (cross) is salvation'. The letter T …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2018
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Record ID: NMGW368
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Octagonal-sectioned tapering lead, or lead-alloy, weight. The weight is pinched and perforated at its narrowest end for suspension. Possibly for use with a steelyard. The close dating of lead weights is difficult; excavated examples range in date from the Roman period until the nineteenth century. Brian Read has published a similar example which he dates to the 12th to 13th century (Read 1995, 99, no.609). Height 20mm, maximum width 15mm
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW373
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Henry III. Long cross cut halfpenny Class III Ricard.. Uncertain mint (six possibilities, most likely London)
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW386
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy purse bar. The moulded sub-spherical terminals of the circular-sectioned bar are embellished with horizontal grooves, while the central sub-rectangular boss is decorated on one side with two presumably engraved oblique grooves which, with the base of the boss, form a triangular panel. One arm of the purse bar is bent upwards about a third of the way along its length. The original form of the swivelling attachment is not certain. At present it does not form the usual loop, but is T-shaped suggesting that the purse bar is possibly a variant from of ward-Perkin's Type B8…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW390
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy rim fragment from a steep-sided vessel. The large diameter of the vessel suggests that it was used for cooking. Minimum depth of vessel 26mm, thickness 4mm. Probably medieval or post-medieval in date.
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW392
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Iron rotary key with a narrowed pin, bit consisting of symmetrical clefts and a kidney-shaped bow. The circular-sectioned shank narrows through two shoulders 40-45mm from the bow. The narrowed pin is broken c.9mm from the bit. Overall length (minimum) 169mm, height of bow 56mm, width of bow c.40mm, depth of bit 27mm, width of bit 25mm, thickness of bit 6-7mm, weight 149 grams. An example of Ward Perkin's Type VIIB (1940, 141-143, fig.42). Egan has catalogued a number of fourteenth to fifteenth century parallels for this Type (1998, 115-118, nos.322-329), while Goodall has published an…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2001
Last updated: Friday 12th September 2014
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Record ID: NMGW393
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Wall fragment of a cast copper alloy vessel with horizontal ridge. Unfortunately, the fragment is not large enough to determine the original form of the vessel with certainty but it is possibly from a tripod cauldron or skillet. Dimensions 64mm x 51mm, thickness 2.5mm, weight 34.1 grams. Medieval or Post-medieval in date.
Created on: Monday 30th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW396
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Crudely cast, one-sided lead, or lead alloy (pewter) token. The decorated side contains a heavily worn radial wheel pattern (c.f., Dean 1977, 139, fig.2). Diameter 17-18mm, thickness 5mm, weight 7.8 grams. Although a fairly common find type little is known about the date, places of issue, function and extent of circulation of lead tokens. Lead tokens have been variously identified as trade tokens, counters, pilgrimage souvenirs, hop or farm tokens, tavern tokens, merchant seals and gaming pieces (Dean 1977, 141-142). It is not certain what this example was used for. Lead tokens are th…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW399
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy double loop annular buckle with plain bevelled edges, slightly recessed strap bar and notch to accommodate the pin. The strap bar is distorted. Diameter 34mm x 38mm, thickness 3mm, weight 10.5 grams. Fourteenth to seventeenth century in date.
Created on: Monday 30th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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