Record ID: NMGW-5E20E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy contemporary copy of a Roman as of Claudius dating to the period AD 43-54 (Reece Period 2). Minerva reverse type depicting Minerva right, helmeted and draped, hurling javelin and holding round shield. Copying mint of Rome prototype. cf. RIC I, p.128, no.100.
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2022
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-EF5105
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow of Developed T-shaped type of T108 and of 2nd century AD date. The brooch is near-complete, missing the end of the pin (with a length of 45.5mm, a depth of 18.5mm and a weight of 12.4g). The copper alloy pin is hinged within tubular wings (with a width of 23.0mm and a diameter of 4.2mm) probably around an iron axis bar. The ends of the wings have a decorative vertical rib. At the head is a un perforated ‘chain-loop’ (5.6mm high, 6.8mm wide), with a circular cell infilled with a grainy red-brown deposit. The upper bow is of sub-rectangular section and…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-6A69D1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman silver denarius of Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) dating to 13 BC (Reece Period 1). Overse: AVGVSTVS, Head of Augustus bare, right; behind, lituus. Reverse: C MARIVS CF TRO IIIVIR, quadriga right carrying palm. Mint of Rome. RIC (second edition) Augustus 399.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-D6F9A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy plate brooch of Roman date (c. 70-250 AD). The brooch belongs to Mackreth’s British Plate 5.a (Dished Cone), as No. 11119, Pl. 108. The brooch is incomplete and distorted, missing the pin and axis bar as well as parts of the rim and inner plate. The brooch is circular in plan (26.1mm in diameter) with a thickened (1.8mm thick), upturned rim with integrally cast rounded lugs projecting at regular intervals from the base of the rim. Four of these lugs survive, there were likely originally six. The plate within the rim rises to form a central, slightly co…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-420B9E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus coin of Constantine I (r. 306-337AD), issued c. 318-319AD. Mint of Trier. VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP reverse type. As RIC VII Treveri 209 Obverse: Bust of Constantine I, laureate, helmeted, cuirassed, right Obverse Legend: IMP CONSTAN-TI[NVS MAX AVG] Reverse: Two Victories, winged, draped, standing facing each other, holding a shield inscribed VOT/PR supported by an altar Reverse Legend: VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP Mint Mark: -/-//STR Die Axis: 12 Diameter: 18mm Weight: 2.71g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-4211CF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy As coin of Nerva (r. 96-98AD), issued c. Jan-Sep 97AD. Mint of Rome. Aequitas reverse type. As RIC II Nerva 77. Obverse: Head of Nerva, laureate, right Obverse Legend: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P Reverse: Aequitas, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left Reverse Legend: AEQUITAS AVGVST SC Die Axis: 7 Diameter: 27.4mm Weight: 7.58g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-422179
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn probable copper alloy nummus (AE1) coin of an uncertain emperor, probably Diocletian or Constantine I, issued c. 294-313AD. Uncertain mint. Likely GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse type. Obverse: Bust right, probably cuirassed and laureate Obverse Legend: Obliterated Reverse: Genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, holding patera in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand Reverse Legend: [GENIO POPVLI ROMANI] Mint Mark: Obliterated Die Axis: 6 Diameter: 27.2mm Weight: 6.17g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-F21711
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete forged copper alloy spiral finger ring of probable Iron Age to Roman date (c. 200BC-AD 410). The ring is of Guiraud Type 7 (Guiraud 1989, 195-6). The ring is made from a forged bar of copper alloy 4.3- 4.8mm diameter wrapped around to form a ring, completing two full turns. The section of the bar is circular. The internal diameter of the ring is variable with a maximum of 22.1mm. The inner surface has a central seam stretching its length and visible in the terminal sections as a result of the forging process. The ring has a glossy smooth olive green to dark brown patina on…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-F0F0A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman nummus of Arcadius (AD 383-408) or Honorius (AD 393-423), dating to the period AD 406-408 (Reece Period 22). GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type depicting three emperors standing facing, each holding a spear, the two outermost resting a hand on shield. Uncertain eastern mint. RIC X, p.251-2, nos 141a ff.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-F0A319
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman nummus of Honorius (AD 393-423), dating to the period AD 395-401 (Reece Period 21). VIRTVS EXERCITI reverse type depicting Emperor standing left, head right, holding spear and resting left hand on shield. Victory, holding palm-branch in left hand, crowns him. Mint of Cyzicus. RIC X Arcadius 68; LRBC 2-2581.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-43CAF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of uncertain type (c.AD 1st-2nd century AD). The brooch is comprised of the wings, spring, bow, foot and catch plate with a portion of the spring and pin missing in old damage (overall surviving length 34.7mm). The wings are sub-oval in section and open in the back to accommodate the spring coiled around a copper alloy axis bar that is secured by wing caps (6.9mm tall x 7.7mm deep). The wings are decorated with transverse moulded ribs defined by incised grooves (four grooves and four ribs on each wing). A rear-facing hook at the back of…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-C15998
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near-complete Roman cast copper alloy brooch, of Colchester derivative Polden Hill type, dating from c. AD 80 -120. The object consists of the head and the bow of the brooch, with the axis bar and spring still intact. The pin and most of the catch plate are missing. It is irregular in plan, broadly comma shaped in profile, and irregular in cross section. The bow of the brooch is 13.61mm wide and 18.75mm deep at the head, narrowing to 3.26mm wide and 7.96mm deep at the foot. On either side of the brooch head are two curved raised areas edged with a single row of small diag…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-1391B7
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery and reporting A hoard of 37 Roman silver coins was discovered by David Henry Moss and Tom Taylor on 20th-21st December 2018 and 19th January 2019 in Caerhun Community, Conwy. The coins were found while metal detecting on cultivated land that was under pasture at the time. The findspot (a National Grid Reference) of the coins and addresses of interested parties are given on the Treasure Receipt Form. The coins were discovered scattered in shallow rocky ploughsoil at depths of approximately 3-4 inches. Mr Moss and Mr Taylor discovered another coin hoard of Ro…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caerhun Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-0EA045
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery and reporting A ceramic pot containing 2733 Roman silver and copper alloy coins was discovered by David Henry Moss and Tom Taylor on 22nd December 2018 in Caerhun Community, Conwy.  The hoard was found while metal detecting on cultivated land that was under pasture at the time. The top of the pot was discovered at a depth of about 30cm below the surface of the field, at the top of a slight mound. The finders carefully excavated the pot themselves, wrapped the pot in bandages and left the coins inside the pot. The rim of the pot had been struck by a ploug…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caerhun Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-A2CAD3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description of the finds Silver crossbow brooch, complete and well preserved with little sign of corrosion, apart from the pin, which is of copper alloy and only survives as badly corroded fragments. The knob at the head is quasi-onion shape rising from a double ridged collar. The arms are a hexagonal tube that houses a copper alloy axial bar for the pin, which was hinged. At each end there is a knob, the same as that at the head of the brooch. The bow is narrow and undecorated apart from at the junction of the bow with the foot, where a length of silver wire is coiled round the bow f…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Five Mile Lane', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-3D5B90
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description of the find About half of a finger ring with a flat elongated oval bezel and the remains of plain loop tapering away from the bezel. The bezel is decorated with a crudely scratched motif, probably intended to be a stylized palm branch. Dimensions: internal diameter 17mm; bezel 11mm (long) by 6mm (wide); weight 1.7g. Evidence of Date Good parallels for silver finger rings of this form, with better executed incised stylized palm branch motifs, can be found in the Roman period, second to third century AD. Cf. Blackburn area, Lancashire (Herepath 2005); York (Downes 2007); …
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-3C75C0
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description of the find Small silver object consisting of a small circular bowl on a long slender shaft that tapers to a point. The bowl is now at virtually a right angle to the shaft and the shaft is bent again about two-thirds along its length, but originally all would probably have been aligned. There is no additional decoration. Dimensions: length 64mm; bowl diameter 5 mm; shaft diameter 2mm; weight 1.8g. Evidence of Date Good parallels for an object of this type can be found in the ligulae (toilet spoons) of the Roman period, with their small flat or cupped round scoop on a lo…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Nicholas and Bonvilston Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-814DAB
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, slightly distorted copper alloy child’s bracelet of probable broad Roman date (c. 43-410AD). The bracelet comprises a single rectangular strip of 4.5mm wide, 2mm thick D-sectioned copper alloy bent into a flattened penannular hoop. The bracelet is twisted in the middle, pushing the terminals of the hoop out of alignment, but otherwise appears to be in its original configuration, with a height of c. 22.5mm, and an external diameter of 34.8mm and an internal diameter of c. 30mm. The bracelet is estimated to have length of c. 70mm if flattened into a straight line. The…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-CD8C53
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman nummus of Constantine II (AD 317-340), dating to the period AD 320-321 (Reece Period 16). CAESARVM NOSTRORVM reverse type, depicting VOT/V in laurel wreath. Mint of Siscia. RIC VII, Siscia, 163.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-A48043
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near-complete, distorted copper alloy Colchester Derivative Polden Hill (CD PH) type brooch of Roman date (c. 75-175AD). The brooch belongs to Mackreth’s CD PH Type 5.b3. The brooch is intact except for the pin and parts of the catchplate. The wings are rectangular in plan with plain concave front faces, with a hollow reverse and perforated sub-rectangular to sub-triangular wing caps. The copper alloy bilateral spring is fixed in place by the copper alloy axis bar held at either end by the lugs. The external chord of the spring is fixed through an integral perforated lug proje…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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