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-FF1B4E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Introduction A Late Bronze Age hoard of 39 fragments representing a minimum of 38 artefacts was discovered by Dr Peter Anning on 2nd February 2021 while metal-detecting on a field following agricultural drainage work. All of the artefacts were reported as being discovered within an area of 2.4m (8 feet) of each other, of each other and at approximate depths of 20-30cm (8-12 inches). Full details of the findspot (NGR) and the addresses of the finders and the landowner are provided on the Treasure Receipt form for this case. The discovery was first reported to Mark Lodwick, Co-ordi…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Fagans Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-FEA9FC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Discovery (CG & AG) A Late Bronze Age hoard of six fragments, representing four artefacts, was discovered by Dr Peter Anning on 30th October 2020 while metal-detecting in a field under pasture in Pontprennau Community, Cardiff. These included four sword blade fragments (Nos. 1-4, below) and two casting jets (Nos. 5-6, below). The artefacts were all discovered within the same field, scattered over an area of 3.5-4.0 square metres (12 square feet) and found at variable depths of between 8-20cm (3-8 inches). A further copper alloy ‘dumbbell’ shaped artefact (No. 7, bel…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pontprennau Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-F04D8D
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
DESCRIPTION Dimensions: length 102.6mm; width of blade 57.5mm; width of body 25.7mm; max. thickness of body 11.1mm; height of flanges 14.3mm; width of butt 20.5mm; weight 194.7g A virtually complete cast copper-alloy flanged axe of Needham’s Class 5A (Type Horncastle), dating to the Arreton phase of the Early Bronze Age (c. 1725-1500 BC) (Needham 1996; Needham et al. 1997). The sides of the axe are straight and slightly divergent, curving out suddenly at the blade end to create a widely expanded blade with a crescentic cutting edge. The blade edge is slightly damaged and asymm…
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-AD3FB9
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age copper alloy mini terret of 2nd century BC to 1st century AD date The mini-terret is complete but is heavily-corroded (with a weight of 6.0g). The hoop is oval (22.7mm long and 25.0mm wide, with internal dimensions of 13.5mm x 14.6mm) and is of D-shaped section, with a flat underside. The hoop is damaged at its apex but appears to both widen and thicken towards the base (with a width and thickness at the apex of 4.5mm and 3.5mm respectively and 5.5mm and 4.5mm respectively before the bar). There were mouldings either side of the bar, now damaged (giving a maximum width a…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-C72646
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age bronze Early Short-Flanged axe, possibly of Type Bannockburn as defined by Schmidt and Burgess (1981, p.76-7)[1] but of Acton Park 1 metalworking industry, straddling the end of the Early Bronze Age to beginning of the Middle Bronze Age; c. 1600 – 1400BC The axe is complete with minimal corrosion and is comparatively large (with a length of 184mm and a weight of 678.7g). The butt is straight (with a width of 16.2mm and a thickness of 2.3mm) and is slightly angled across its width. The sides are straight and gently divergent as far as the ‘nicked’ ridges, below th…
Created on: Monday 11th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C8D8F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy coin Carausius, usurper in Britain (AD 286/7-93) radiate, Early Issue but otherwise uncertain 1.97g, worn and holed
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 8th October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-03EEE8
Object type: TANKARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age copper alloy tankard handle of 1st century AD date The tankard handle is fragmentary, represented by one disc terminal and the fragment of the handle stem (with a surviving depth of 23.0mm and a weight of 37.7g). The terminal is oval (45.7mm wide and 40.5mm long) with moulded decoration. The decoration comprises a crescent at the apex with a raised border. The border at the top of the crescent edge of the handle terminal is now heavily-corroded and damaged. As the crescent arcs away from the edge of the terminal the lipped moulding becomes more pronounced (with a maximum dep…
Created on: Friday 25th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3C195F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age hoard of six objects. 1. Ribbed socketed axe - South Wales Type socketed axe Dimensions: surviving length 87.1mm; surviving blade width 44.6mm; surviving weight 156.8g. This is a socketed axe with a damaged and largely absent mouth and damage to the blade end and lower side caused by erosion, lamination and detachment of the original surfaces from the core. The axe has a narrow and out-splayed mouth moulding, the top too damaged to observe its original shape or evidence for runner stubs. The axe is sub-rectangular in section with rounded face edges. The loop i…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-15C80E
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Five fragments of silver badge in the form of a cockerel, made in repoussé technique out of thin sheet metal, and externally engraved to provide crisp details of feathers and wings. There are the remains of four wire attachment loops soldered to the reverse, one at the back of the head, one on the tail, and to on the 'ground' the cockerel stands on. There is a plain scroll running beneath the cockerel's breast engraved with the motto Si deus nobis/cum ('If God if for us, [who can be against us?]' - Romans 8.31) in neat lower case italic script. The height of the cockerel is 82.6mm…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-9998A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch fragment probably from a Trumpet or Trumpet derivative brooch of 1st or 2nd century AD date. The brooch fragment is from a swivelling chain loop (with a surviving length of 20.3mm and a weight of 1.7g) and comprises the wire chain loop with attached frontal plate of disc form. The wire (1.2mm diameter) forms a loop at the apex (7.6mm wide) and is wider at the base (with a surviving width of 17.7mm) to accommodate the spring. The chain-loop is held by a rectangular loop (6.4mm long and 2.0mm wide) on the rear of the disc plate. The fitting (with an ov…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-997E4E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Transitional Type 2.b1, flat wing ends) and of mid-1st-early 2nd century AD. The brooch in incomplete and fragmentary, missing the pin and catch-plate and broken across the top of the bow (with a length of 50mm, a depth of 16mm and a weight of 11.0g). The spring remains in place and is comparatively wide (at 39.5mm), secured around a copper alloy axis bar between lateral lugs, only one of which now survives. The chord is tensioned by a hook at the head. The head is of sheet copper alloy and the fr…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2015
Last updated: Friday 7th July 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-D43403
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy buckle, dating from the mid-14th to the mid-15th century The buckle comprises an oval, lipped frame with a folded sheet plate. The buckle is near-complete, missing some of the pate and the end of the pin (with an overall, distorted length of 33.7mm and a weight of 2.7g). The oval frame (with a length of 17.8mm and a width of 19.1mm) is of trapezoidal section on the outside edge (2.9mm thick), becoming sub-rectangular on the sides. The lip has a prominent notch for the pin. The bar is narrowed and offset. The pin is of circular, tapering section (2.1mm maximum dia…
Created on: Tuesday 4th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-DA5BD7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of uncertain type. The brooch is fragmentary and is represented by the head and upper bow only, with a surviving length of 17.12mm and weighs 3.g. The brooch employed a copper alloy spring mechanism, probably secured by a Polden Hill type arrangement. The wings are eroded and have a surviving width of 17.99mm. The bow has a width at the head of 8.07mm and is of oval section. No decoration survives on the poorly-preserved surface of the brooch which has recently been coated in a wax.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2006
Last updated: Friday 15th April 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-DA5116
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill type (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 2.b2, sprung pin, flat wing ends type) and of 1st century AD date. The brooch is incomplete, missing the spring and leg, with a surviving length of 26.38mm and weighs 9.1g. The spring was secured with a Polden Hill type arrangement and the chord was tensioned by a lug on the head. The wings have a width of 28.82mm. The fronts of the wings were decorated with mouldings, which are now largely eroded. The bow has a width at the head of 8.72mm and has a curved moulding against the head. …
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2006
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-F33FF2
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead measuring 25.1mm long, 23.5mm wide, 5.8mm thick and weighing 2.1g.
Created on: Monday 7th November 2005
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-B6E461
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Made on cortical grey flint, unpatinated with a plain striking platform.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-B6DF87
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Scraper fragment, made on cortical grey flint.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-B6D164
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Made on cortical grey flint.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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