Record ID: NMGW-DEF994
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PREHISTORIC
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint scraper. The scraper is made on a cortical flake of light grey flint, much of which is patinated.
Created on: Tuesday 9th March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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-6030D2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy sword or dagger chape, probably of late Medieval or Early Post-Medieval date. The chape has one straight side and one curved to follow the shape of the blade. The top of the chape is serrated and has corresponding decorative holes bounded by a horizontal rib. The bottom of the chape has a small knop. The rear has a wide seam to enable soldering to the back plate. The surface is covered with coarse file marks running horizontally, and has a black colour or patina, which may have been deliberately applied.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-9F36A4
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy saddle pommel of 16th or 17th century date The pommel is near-complete and retains one of the buckle-frames, but is missing one of the attachment lugs (with a length of 67.9 mm and a weight of 100.7g). The pommel is of two-piece construction and remain joined, soldered across its midsection. The domed pommel is hollow and of sub-circular section (with a diameter of 37.1mm, an internal diameter of 31.8mm and is up to 2.8mm thick). The sides are gently convex and near-parallel before its rounded apex. The surviving lug is slightly distorted (giving a widt…
Created on: Tuesday 10th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 30th July 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-6A437A
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy saddle pommel of 16th or 17th century date The pommel is near-complete, with damaged attachment lugs (with a length of 69.7mm and a weight of 41.9g) and is of two-piece construction, now separated but would have been soldered across its midsection. The domed pommel is hollow and of oval section (with a diameter of 33.1mm x 31.0mm, an internal diameter of 29.5mm x 27.5mm and is 1-2mm thick). The sides are straight and near-parallel to the undulating base. There was a double attachment hole for rivets near the base and there would have been a lug on each si…
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 30th July 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-62111D
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post medieval copper alloy rowel from a spur, probably of 15th to 18th century date The rowel is near-complete, with some peripheral damage to some of the points (with a maximum surviving diameter of 35.3mm, a thickness of 2.7mm and a weight of 7.0g). The rowel comprises seven points, which gradually taper to the tips. Each of the points was separated from the next by a groove as far as the central perforation and is evident on both faces. The perforation is oval (5.6mm x 4.5mm) and is placed off-centre. The rowel is slightly thicker at the centre. The surface has a dar…
Created on: Friday 14th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 14th November 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-3EA797
Object type: ROTARY KEY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Relatively large cast rotary key, probably dating from the 13th to the 16th century. The bit is trapezoidal in shape and is comparatively simple for this key type, with a single cleft each side and two chevron shaped grooves each side. The shaft is hollow, with an off-centre hole, and is circular except for slight faceting. The key has an elaborately collar with two triangular profiled mouldings contained with rectangular mouldings. The bow is circular, and is flat internally with a biconical exterior. There is a square knob on the outside edge of the bow with a cross at its apex.
Created on: Thursday 3rd July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-47E4BE
Object type: ROTARY KEY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post medieval copper alloy rotary key probably from 13th to 17th century date The key is incomplete, missing the bow (with a surviving length of 72.5mm and a weight of 24.7g). The bow is incomplete but is likely to have been of circular to oval form (with a surviving width of 9.6mm) and appears to have been of triangular section. There is a V-shaped moulding at the base of the bow. The shank is of faceted oval section, becoming D-shaped at the tip (7.6mm x 8.7mm below the bow and 4.1mm x 5.0mm at the tip). The end of the shank is solid. The bit has two clefts on each si…
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 25th November 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9BEE04
Object type: RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Curator's Report Description of object Rein-ring or harness ring (Found in association with Terret (NMGW-9B2D52) This is a substantial cast bronze ring with a circular cross-section. At one point, there is a slight casting imperfection, visible as a slight pitted thinning with a slightly bulbous or raised margin. This would not have compromised the structural strength of the piece. Slight thinning and smoothing of the internal surface on one side of the ring may represent a slight wear facet, created through pressure from straps or a bit-link. On one upper surface, there is a…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 11th December 2013
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Record ID: NMGW-A4D314
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Annular ring of copper alloy. This is likely to be a simple annular round (or near round) section buckle frame of Medieval date, probably 13th –15th century. The ring is plain, except for an expanded area with a pair of low lugs and the pin constricting mouldings. The relatively narrow gap or groove between these mouldings would suggest the rings use as a buckle rather than a brooch. The groove seemingly being too slender to seat the stem of a brooch pin. Egan (1991) states that a constriction on a single frame is generally an indication of a brooch rather than a buckle, leaving…
Created on: Friday 1st August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-845F52
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy object, probably a ring handle of indeterminate age. The ring is solid cast, oval in plan (68.9mm x 62.0mm) and teardrop-shaped in section with a rounder interna edge and a more pronounced external edge (ring width c.7.7mm wide x 4.2mm thick). The ring lacks any diagnostic features to estimate precise function or relative date. The metal has a brownish-green smooth patina with large areas of rough mid- to light-green corrosion and weighs 28.39g.  
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-A46D83
Object type: RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy ring, likely a sword belt ring of probable late iron Age to Roman Date (1st century BC to 1st century AD). The ring is a circular hoop 32.2mm in diameter with a near-circular section measuring 5.4mm thick and 4.4mm wide. The internal diameter of the ring is 23-23.4mm. The ring is decorated on its circumference by continuous 2.4mm wide band of incised rectangular beading. The remainder of the ring’s surviving surface is highly polished and patinated green to light green. The surface is broken and pitted in some patches, with bright green corrosion product …
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-2504E9
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary cast copper alloy object, probably a fitting, of uncertain date. The object is half of a curved or circular fitting and is sub-triangular in section with a surviving overall length of 43.9mm. The surviving terminal is rounded and decorated with a small circular moulding (max thickness 5.0mm) and a small integrally cast knop/spike projecting outwards from the side. The object has an old break at the apex of the curve. The surviving original surface suggests the shallow central ridge was decorated with small notches. The reverse is flat and undecorated. XRF results show t…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-24FBF9
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary cast copper alloy ring, possibly from a harness, of uncertain date. The ring is missing over half of the hoop in old damage with surviving measurements 25.5mm long x 7.2mm max diameter. The ring is roughly D-shaped/sub-triangular in section with a shallow central ridge along the outer surface and small angular wear facets visible at the breaks. There is no visible evidence for surface decoration. It is difficult to determine function with so little remaining, but it may be a fragment of a harness ring. The metal has a smooth dark green mottled patina and weighs 6.51g. XR…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-5B910B
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Stone rotary quern fragment probably of Roman date The stone is from a rotary quern and is probably a fragmentary upper-stone in coarse-grained sandstone, now of sub-triangular form (with a maximum surviving length of 99.0mm, a maximum surviving width of 91.5mm and a weight of 357.0g). One of the edges is curved and is likely to be the original outer edge of the quern. The stone is of rectangular section and is thickest at the outside edge, which is without a raised lip (with a thickness of 33.1mm compared with a thickness of 30.1mm at the inside). The grinding face has radial gr…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-2B27A1
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval lead alloy purse bar, c. 15th or 16th century The purse bar is complete with a length of 53.6mm and a weight of 7.1g. The terminals were pointed with a flange before a recess to secure the missing frame. The bars are of sub-rectangular section with attachment plates beneath. The bar widens (to 10.1mm) and thins (to 3.6mm) at the centre to accommodate a perforation (3.0mm diameter), through which the loop would have passed. No decoration is evident on the purse bar. The surface is poorly preserved and has a mid-grey colour.
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 29th December 2011
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Record ID: NMGW382
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy purse bar. The perforated shield-shaped central block is decorated with a lattice pattern on one side and a rudimentary scallop-shell pattern on the other. The side bars are circular in section and gripped by stylised animals' heads at their junction with the central block. The upper surface and sides of the side bars are decorated with a lattice pattern. Microscopic observation suggests that the decorative motifs on both the central block and the side bars are inlaid with niello. The ends of both bars are missing beyond the first perforation of the attachm…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW153
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a copper alloy purse frame with a cast copper alloy rotating suspension loop fixed to the horizontal bar by a rove. Both arms of the short, sub-rectangular sectioned horizontal bar are broken close to the rectangular-shaped central boss. The elongated suspension loop is plano-convex in section with the flat side facing inwards. One side of the central boss is decorated with two diagonal moulded lines arranged to form a "V" shape (cf. Ward Perkins 1967, fig.52.B1). Probably late fifteenth to mid sixteenth century in date. Type B1 (Ward Perkins 1967, 167-168, fig.52). Lengt…
Created on: Friday 24th September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-4956A2
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy late medieval to early post medieval purse bar (c. AD 1420-1600) of Williams class A2. The object consists of a side-bar (68.5mm long, 9.8mm wide and 7mm thick), part of a pendant frame (surviving length of 25.8mm, 4.5mm wide, 3.6mm thick) with surviving perforation (c.2mm in diameter) expanding from the bottom of the bar, and a central boss (20.2mm in height, 22mm wide and 13.3mm thick) with a heavily corroded iron swivel pin through the middle (30.1mm in surviving length). The surviving side-bar, or arm, is rectangular in plan and section and fea…
Created on: Wednesday 30th September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th September 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-31E2F9
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy purse frame of early to mid 16th century date The cast purse frame is of Ward-Perkins (1940, p. 167-9)[1] Type B5 and is incomplete, missing one arm and the other purse components (with a surviving length of 39.5mm and a weight of 10.1g). The central block (8.5mm thick with an internal diameter of 5.0mm) is decorated with vertical grooves and has shoulders descending to the arms. The short arms (22.5mm long) had a plate with three perforations now damaged beneath the bars on each side and is decorated with lipped mouldings before the terminals. The sur…
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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