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Record ID: NMGW-063EB0
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy trade weight, probably of late 17th century date The weight is stamped with a crowned W, probably over the letter M, probably for William III and Mary II (1689 -1694), a sword and ewer indicating London. The weight now weighs 25.3g, equivalent to 0.8924 ounces and would originally have been a one-ounce weight. The surface is worn and has a mid to dark green patina.
Created on: Friday 27th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW3166
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Cast copper alloy vessel foot. The foot has a rib on its external surface and tapers to a rounded point. The upper part of the casting is missing. Vessel feet are not uncommon detector finds (Bailey 1997, 36). Although examples which terminate in turned-out bases or paws are the most common type, examples with rounded tips are not unknown. Surviving length 79mm, max width (surviving) 35mm, max surviving thickness 16mm. Fifteenth to seventeenth century probably [i.e. Late Medieval - Early Post-Medieval]. Parallels: Lewis 1978, 36, no.45 (skillet); and Lewis 1978, 32, no.38 (Cauldron)
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW3215
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Pot mend of a steeply sided vessel, crudely cast. Unusual metal type - microscopic examination suggests that it is a heavily leaded copper alloy which may have a tinned surface. Most pot mends are made from straight lead alloys and that this example has been made from a leaded copper alloy suggests that it may be a mend for a copper alloy vessel rather than a ceramic pot. Close dating is not possible but a medieval or post-medieval date is most likely. Dimensions 100m x 44mm x 4-8mm.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-71A711
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Cast copper alloy cauldron or skillet leg of Medieval date, probably dating from 13th - 16th century. The front of the leg has a prominent central rib and two side ribs near the top of the leg, where the leg joins the vessel. The rear of the leg has two chamfered edges. The interior of the vessel is present at the apex of the leg, which shows ancient breaks around its edge. One half of the front of the leg has been recently cleaned by the finder, the remainder of the leg exhibits heavy carbon deposits as a result of repeated burning, as would be expected on the surface of a cooking vessel.
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-972BC1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Two rim fragments - one fragment has a rim form that is slightly expanded and rounded internally, the fragment is heavily sooted on the exterior, as is consistent with use as a cooking vessel. The other fragment has a more angular internal rim with less sooting evident on the exterior. Short and stumpy straight ridged leg, with central rib and two less pronounced side ribs. The top of the leg has an area of the vessel body attached. The leg has evidence of sooting, with an addition thick carbon deposit on the interior of the body.
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-D53460
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Copper-alloy leg from a medieval or post-medieval cooking vessel, perhaps a cauldron or skillet. This is a short rectangular-sectioned leg with a bevelled base resulting in the bottom of the leg forming a narrow edge. The leg has broken at the junction with the body of the vessel, and rises to become expanded, with a concave upper surface. The patina and corrosion of the fragment suggests burning, as would be expected with a cooking vessel.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-3144A3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy anthropomorphic vessel escutcheon, handle mount probably from a bucket and of 1st Century BC to 3rd century AD date The cast looped mount is near complete but heavily corroded (with an overall length of 58.5mm and a weight of 40.0g). At the apex is an integral loop of sub-circular section (l6.7mm high, 16.3mm wide, 9.3mm internal diameter and 2.9mm – 5.4mm sectional diameter). The interior of the loop has wear facets discernible on the upper part of the loop interior, presumably the result of rubbing from the missing handle. Beneath the loop …
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW387
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Curved tapering cast copper alloy rod which is broken at its thickest end and terminates in a near spherical boss at the other. At its widest point the rod is sub-rectangular in section but it becomes circular in section towards the terminal. Length 86mm, diameter of terminal c.18mm, weight 53.5 grams. The piece is probably the cross-hilt, inner guard or quillon of a dagger, rapier or sword, however not enough of the casting survives to be certain or suggest exactly what type of hilt this may have been part of. Suggested finder send object to the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 12th September 2013
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Record ID: NMGW-346C2E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed and looped fitting of uncertain date The cast fitting appears to be near-complete but corroded and worn (with a length of 32.8mm and a weight of 15.4g) and is comparatively crude casting. The socket interior is of trilobed form (13mm both wide and long and 13mm – 17mm deep), open at both ends and with a break at the rear. There are decorative mouldings on the outside of the socket, comprising opposing arcs on the concave edges, with one face deeper than the other. There is an integral loop (12mm long, 4.5mm -6.8mm thick with an internal diameter of 7.6mm) …
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW3222
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Copper alloy halfpenny token, 1795. Obverse: A profile bust of the Duke of York in naval uniform, facing right. Beneath is HALFPENNY 1795 in two lines. Legend: FRED. K DUKE OF YORK. Reverse: A first-rate ship-of-the-line sailing to the right. Legend: THE WOODEN WALLS OF ENGLAND. Edge: PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR LONDON.+.+. Struck anonymously, for general circulation. Probably made in Birmingham. The original surfaces have largely been lost through corrosion.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-73CC41
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy token Probably a penny token of Charles Huddle (or Huddel), Wexford (c. 1650-70) CHARL[ES ]HVDDEL.IN; annular [W]EXFORD.IN.IRELAND BW Ireland 746 0.59g, corroded
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-646658
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy token City of Bristol farthing token CB; date illegible (c. 1652-70) Corroded
Created on: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 14th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-AE3574
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Possible Late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy looped toggle of 1st century BC to 1st century AD date The cast toggle is of biconical form and is incomplete, missing the loop (with a length of 25.4mm and a weight of 18.7g). The terminal are sub-circular (17.8mm x 16.3mm and 16.2mm x 15.0mm). The smaller terminal has a very crudely incised cross and the other terminal has a prominent raised rib, probably a casting seam and corresponds to the seam along the midsection of the toggle. There is a single crude incised line perpendicular to the casting seam, possibly to define a cross.…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th February 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-A83AB2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Copper alloy thimble of conical shape, and probably dating from the later Medieval or early Post Medieval period. The thimble is domed with converging sides and is comparatively thick walled. Near the mouth is a double incised line, above which columns (rather than a spiral arrangement) of irregular indentations, which continue to the apex. Some of the mouth of the thimble has been lost.
Created on: Friday 30th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-EDD684
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy domed thimble, probably of mid-14th or 15th century date The thimble is near-complete with some peripheral and surface damage (with a length of 19.1 and a weight of 8.7g). The mouth is sub-circular (with a diameter of 19.7 mm – 21.0mm and internal diameter of 18mm). The rim appears slightly thickened (with a rim thickness of 1.3mm) and is without a border. There is damage to the rim but other notches may been residual from the manufacture of the thimble. The sides of the thimble are near-straight, subtly convex and gently convergent before the domed t…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-066ED6
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy sword guard of 18th century date The guard is of fragmentary, represented by approximately half (with a surviving length of 40.2mm and a weight of 26.2g) and has broken through the central rectangular aperture. The guard was of concave double-oval form with a rectangular slot (14.6mm long) to accommodate the tang. Both faces are decorated with elaborate motif in cast relief. The motif on both faces depict a winged-figure in three-quarters profile, depicted with weapons in a radiating design, probably of mythical origin, possibly influenced by Assyrian o…
Created on: Friday 27th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-A84458
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Copper-alloy post-medieval S-shaped 'snake belt' fastener, probably of 16th or 17th century date. The fastener is decorated on both faces with animal-head terminals and with moulded scale-like decoration before a central circular floral motif.
Created on: Friday 30th January 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-F6BB9D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy fitting Post Medieval Date (AD 1500-1700). The object may be a dress hook or, since it is decorated on both sides, a watch winder. The face is decorated in a floral motif framed by incised lines forming an elongated crown shape. Both lateral points of the ‘crown’ terminate in sub-rectangular knops (5.9mm wide) with the central point terminating in a hexagonal knop (5.1mm wide) with a central recessed circular cell (2.5mm diameter). The bottom of the ‘crown’ is decorated with incised linework in the shape of a fan or floral motif with pointed en…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 5th May 2021
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Record ID: NMGW11
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find 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
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Record ID: NMGW-578950
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy spoon The cast spoon is fragmentary, represented by the proximal part of the bowl and a stub of the stem (with a surviving length of 21.6mm and a weight of 3.6g). The remaining stem fragment is perpendicular to the bowl indicating that the handle was off-set and is of sub-circular section (4.2mm diameter and giving an overall surviving height of 9.0mm). The sides of the bowl are gently convex and divergent to the break, across the bowl (with a maximum surviving width of 19.0mm, where it has a depth of 3.6mm and a thickness of 1.3mm). The rim or edges of the bowl ha…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-44E6F1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed fitting of uncertain function and date, possibly Bronze Age The fitting is cast and is fragmentary broken in antiquity at one end (with a surviving length of 39.5mm and a weight of 38.6g). The mouth is irregular and sub-circular (with an internal diameter of 15mm – 18mm and a maximum thickness of 3.2mm) before a bulbous collar (with a maximum diameter of 26.3mm). The fitting gradually narrows before being near-parallel sided, gently convergent to the break (with a diameter of 16mm – 177mm). Immediately beneath the break are integral lugs now truncated (8…
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-7399CD
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe probably of Type Portree or a variant, possibly Variant Kalemouth, as defined by Schmidt & Burgess (1981, p. 184-90) possibly dating to the transition of the Wilburton-Wallington and Ewart Park metalworking phases corresponding to Needham's (1996) Periods 6 to 7, c. 1150 -750BC. The axe is of 'Baggy' form and is incomplete, missing the mouth and loop (with a surviving length of 55.5mm and a weight of 74.8g with the wood in the socket and 73.3g without). The top of the axe has broken or is eroded, probably just below the mouth. The mouth is oval…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-ED6A68
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of (Class B) Southern English ribbed type and of Ewart Park metalworking, dated to Needham’s (1996)[1] Period 7, c. 950 – 750BC The socketed axe is fragmentary, missing the mouth and one face (with a surviving maximum length of 104.0mm and a weight of 234.0g) and was damaged in antiquity. The more complete face is likely to have broken just below the mouth but with no mouth moulding surviving. The socket has a moderately consistent rectangular profile (29mm x 19mm and with a surviving depth of 67.5mm). The longer side has the stub of the loop surv…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-4619AD
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe fragment of indeterminate type and of Wilburton-Wallington, Ewart Park or Llyn Fawr metalworking industries dated to c. 1,150 – 600BC The fragmentary cast axe is represented by a blade fragment only (with a surviving length of 27.3mm, a blade edge width of 50.6mm, a maximum thickness of 12.3mm and a weight of 44.6g). The base of the socket is evident at break and is rectangular form (38.7mm x 7.0mm and with a maximum surviving depth of 14.6mm). The axe has broken above the blade tips with no surviving blade side remaining on the fragment. &nbs…
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: NMGW3234
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Oval, copper alloy (probably bronze) seal matrix with a broken perforated lug for suspension. There is considerable wear or corrosion around the edges of the seal resulting in incomplete letter forms. Dimensions 28 x 15.2mm. The image is of the lamb of God (Agnus dei) with pellets on the body representing the fleece, and a tall cross bearing banner (unclear) which are all symbolic of Christ the sacrificial lamb. The matrix is inscribed S. henrici---na-dis (Lombardic script, with some Roman letters, for example N), reading "The seal of Henry..". The matrix probably dates to the mid or …
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-ED8A03
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix The cast seal matrix is of circular faceted handle form and is near-complete, missing the terminal loop and the edge of the seal die (with a surviving length of 21.1mm and a weight of 7.3g). The damaged loop was above double or triple ribbed mouldings before the hexagonally-faceted handle widening to the circular seal die, now eroded at the edges (with a maximum surviving diameter of 19.1mm). The central device depicts ‘the pelican in her piety’ with the pelican extending across the top of the field with the head to the left (as seen on the …
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-ABA9BE
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix of 13th or 14th century date The seal matrix is of pointed-oval form and is near-complete but is now heavily corroded and worn (with a length of 31.0mm, a width of 19.5mm and a weight of 10.4g). The rear of the matrix is flat except for the loop (10.0mm long, 5.1mm wide, 4.0mm high, 3.3mm dimeter and giving the matrix an overall depth of 7.8mm), positioned below the apex. There is the suggestion of a possible rib descending from the base of the loop. The seal die (3.1mm thick) is heavily corroded with little of the encircling legend surviving. The centra…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-ABC844
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix of 13th or 14th century date The matrix is of circular form, with an hexagonally faceted handle and is near-complete but with damaged edges and is now heavily-corroded (with a length of 22.7mmand a weight of 5.2g). The loop (3.0mm internal diameter) at the apex of the handle is damaged, missing one side but appears to have been of unusual lozenge form. Beneath the loop, a moulding defined the top of the faceted handle, which expands to the truncated circular seal die, now with eroded edges (of 18.0mm maximum diameter). The central device on the s…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-A661D8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix of 12th or 13th century date The seal matrix is incomplete, missing the terminal loop and with peripheral damage and is heavily-corroded (with a surviving length of 18.6mm and a weight of 7.1g). The missing loop was surmounted on a circular-sectioned handle with a rounded swelling below the loop (9.3mm diameter and 4.5mm diameter below). There appears to have been a circular perforation (1mm diameter) through the widest part of the handle and containing iron, perhaps indicating a chain loop was attached to the handle, possibly as a repair after t…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW3198
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Copper alloy pin with a spherical head embellished with globular bosses. The stem is bent through a right-angle 29mm below the decorative head and its end is missing. The stem has a thickened shoulder set 12mm below the head (diameter of shoulder 3.5mm); below the shoulder the stem tapers and is square in section, above the shoulder it is probably circular in section. Microscopic examination suggests that the pin was gilded; fragments of gilding survive on both the head and the stem of the pin. Length (min.) 40mm, maximum diameter of head 9mm, weight 3.3 grams. Dating the pin is diffi…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-EC8609
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin of uncertain date, possibly Early Medieval, c. 8th or 9th century The pin is incomplete, missing much of the shaft and is heavily corroded (with a surviving length of 35.4mm and a weight of 8.9g). The pin head is now worn and rounded (19.9mm long and 15.1mm maximum width) but may originally have been of faceted polyhedral form. The pin head was enhanced with circular indentations in a zig-zag arrangement across the midsection of the head. The indentations may have been within an incised ring or possibly infilled with a setting but no trace now survives. At the ap…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-59B71B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin of uncertain date, with possible zoomorphic terminal The cast pin is near-complete but is heavily-corroded (with an overall length of 43.5mm and a weight of 3.4g). The terminal is asymmetric and of undulating form, possibly representing stylised opposing birds (with a width of 19.6mm and a thickness of 3.7mm). There is a slight protrusion at the centre of the apex and may be a damaged stub. Beneath the protrusion is a circular perforation through the pin head (of 2.8mm diameter) and retaining the remnants of a fixing, possibly the link from a chain. The head narrows…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 31st March 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-774626
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Medial fragment from a Bronze Age copper alloy palstave. The fragment has broken in antiquity and has a surviving length of 74.6mm and weighs 139.8g. The fragment encompasses the upper end of the blade, the stop and the majority of the septum. The septum has a surviving length of 45mm and is broken at an angle. It is possible that the position at the end of the septum is the butt of the palstave, although this can not be demonstrated. The septum is comparatively flat and has a thickness of 6-7mm. Both of the sides are straight for the length of the fragment. The flanges are eroded,…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-22B071
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Bronze palstave axe dating to the early Middle Bronze Age, and probably of Taunton or Cemmaes metalworking tradition, Needham et al. (1996) Period 5; c. 1500-1150 BC. The palstave is of an early type and is unlooped, and is also without either a shield pattern or a mid-rib on the blade. The palstave would appear to belong to Group III palstaves of Low-Flanged (Broad-Blade) form, the lack of cast blade decoration on this example makes it difficult to categorise to a specific type, but would appear to be dated to c. 1350-1200BC. The palstave is relatively slight, compared to the more…
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-5957A5
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Bronze Age bronze early palstave or Early Short-Flanged axe, sharing features with Bar-Stop axes (Stegbeile) as defined by Schmidt and Burgess (1981, p.89-90)[1] and of Acton Park 1 metalworking industry, straddling the end of the Early Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age; c. 1600 – 1400BC The axe is near-complete but is heavily-corroded (with a length of 144.5mm and a weight of 321.7g). The butt appears slightly eroded and is of irregular shape (with a width of 20.4mm and a thickness of 4.5mm). The sides are straight and near-parallel as far as the top of the …
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-342386
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Middle to Late Bronze Age bronze palstave fragment of indeterminate type The cast looped palstave fragment has lost the blade, butt and loop and is represented by the stop fragment (with a surviving length of 46.6mm and a weight of 106.4g). The sides of the palstave are straight for their short lengths, either side of the breaks. The butt end is sub-rectangular sectioned at the break (17.8mm x 12.2mm), slightly concave across the width of the septum and has lost the flanges. One side has a prominent raised stub (giving a maximum surviving width of 26.4mm) from the remains of the…
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-45CE91
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Bronze Age bronze palstave of Group I, Primary Shield Pattern type as defined by Schmidt & Burgess (1981)[1] and of Acton Park 1 metalworking Industry corresponding to Needham’s (1996)[2] Period 4 and probably dated to c. 1600 – 1450BC The palstave is near-complete, missing the top of the flanges and with some surface damage (with an overall length of 157mm and a weight of 316.0g). The butt (with a width of 24.0mm and a thickness of 5.0mm) is straight and is slightly angled. The sides are straight and near-parallel to a point below the stop (with a width at the stop of 26.2mm…
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-5A6000
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper alloy looped fitting, possibly a Roman nail cleaner of 1st or 2nd century AD date The fitting appears to be complete but a little distorted (with a length of 50.1mm and a weight of 0.8g). At the apex is a loop with out-turned terminal (4.6mm deep and 3.0mm internal diameter), which contains a central slot around from the terminal to where the loop returns. The slot contains a fragment of circular-sectioned wire abutting the interior of the strip. The strip or shaft below the loop is of consistent rectangular section (2.8mm wide and 0.6mm thick) with no surviving decoration…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW3201
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Probably part of a cast copper alloy strap-type box mount. The mount is cast in copper alloy (probably bronze) with a central perforation and what appears to be a tapering terminal or knop but is where the mount has been broken. It is gilded on its upper surface and decorated with four probably white glass, rather than pearl, beads inset into the four corners of the main plate. Microscopic examination suggests that the underside of the mount was not gilded. Length 34mm, width 11mm, thickness 3.5mm, weight 3.9grams. Although it has not been possible to find a close parallel in the arch…
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW389
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Decorative mount. Figurative copper alloy mount with two integral rivets. Length 41mm, width 20mm, weight 6.1grams. The quality and shape of the mount suggests it is possibly sixteenth or seventeenth century in date.
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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