Record ID: NMGW-955CA3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Handle lug from a chafing dish of early Post-Medieval date. The lug has the integral rivet for attachment to the body of the dish and a perforation to hold the handle. The lug has flat faces with rounded sides and is rather irregular, with an uneven perforation. File marks are evident on both faces.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2003
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-3248A9
Object type: CHAFING DISH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy anthropomorphic chafing dish stand The cast swivelling support for a chafing dish is fragmentary represented by the anthropomorphic terminal and the top of the curved shaft (with a surviving length of 45.4mm and a weight of 18.0g) and has similar decorated on both faces. The rectangular-sectioned shaft (10.6mm wide and 4.1mm thick) has broken through two perforations (of 2.4mm diameter), used for the swivel. The shaft gradually widens towards the terminal (reaching a maximum width of 13.7mm) and is undecorated except for curved grooves, representing a colla…
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Saturday 23rd March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-EAB5C7
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dimensions: length 84.7mm; length of blade 39.2mm; max. surviving width of blade 14.2mm; external socket diameter 14.9mm; internal socket diameter 12.4mm; approx. length of side-loops 10-10.4mm; depth of socket 53.8mm; weight 21.62g Middle Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead of Davis’ Group 6: Developed side-looped (2012), and probably dating to the Acton Park-Taunton metalworking assemblages (c. 1550-1250 BC). The spearhead is complete and relatively short in overall length, with a short and slender leaf shaped blade. The midrib is pronounced and lozenge shaped in cross-secti…
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-CA2048
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age gold Continental Gallo-Belgic quarter stater (1.64g ; 9.7mm), dating to c.125 - 50 BC (Sills Class Ca2). Obverse: Animal or boat. Reverse: Waved line or tree-like object. Sills 2003: 232 and Fig 76.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-2C8A94
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy pin likely of Early Medieval date (c. AD 700-900). The pin has a 14.1mm long, 11.15mm wide, 1.1mm thick flat shield shaped head- a flat end with sides tapers slightly down 9.7mm to rounded corners, from which the sides turn in sharply to meet the top of the shank. The head is decorated on both face with incised ring and dot motifs. The decoration on each side is non-identical: one side has eight larger c. 3.3mm diameter ring-and-dots while the other has 10 c.2.5mm diameter ring-and-dots. There are very small lip mouldings on either side of the pin wher…
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-79917A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy pin, dating from the 8th to 9th century (c.720 – 850 AD) The object consists of the pin head and a fragment of the pin shaft. The head is globular, measuring 7.7 mm in diameter, and features a design of punched ring-and-dot motifs, each being 3.3 mm in diameter. The applied punched design to the pin head’s surface gives a faceted appearance. There are 11 of these motifs evenly spaced over the surface of the head. At the base of the head is a collar from which the shaft of the pin extends. The pin shaft is 1.6 mm in diameter and it&…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-F9D602
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A outer edge from a cast buckle of an unusual type and depicting a face, probably of Medieval date (c. AD 1250 - 1400). The buckle has a small diameter and has broken at the hoop either side of the bezel. The bezel is thicker at the rear, and depicts a face, possibly anthropomorphic. The nose is raised and is slender; the eyes are recessed and circular. At the top of the head the hair is centre-parted. The sides of the head have a raised area with a central groove, possibly representing hair. The inside of the ring is smooth and worn. No good parallel has been found for this form …
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-591C1F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy strap-end of Thomas’ (2004)[1] Class E, probably Type 2 and of 9th or 10th century date The cast, tongue-shaped strap-end has open-work decoration, probably of anthropomorphic form and is near-complete (with a length of 48.8mm and a weight of 13.2g). The attachment end is straight and stepped (with a width of 21.8mm, a step length of 7.2mm and a thickness of 2.9mm and 1.8mm to the step), missing the top attachment plate. One of the attachment holes is circular, while the other is rectangular. The openwork design is symmetrical about the vertical centr…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-6C4D71
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy miniature votive axe of Late Bronze Age to Romano-British date (c.1200 BC-AD 400). The miniature axe head is sub-rectangular in plan and triangular in section with a total length 17.7mm and width of 8.8mm. The mouth of the axe is a sub-square opening (6.9mm x 5.6mm) representing a socket. Three equidistant incised lines/collar mouldings around the perimeter separate the mouth from the top of the integrally cast loop, which begins 2mm from the mouth and measures 5.9mm long, 3.9mm wide and 2.5mm high. A small circular perforation penetrates the cent…
Created on: Wednesday 13th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-3649F3
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy miniature votive axe of Late Bronze Age to Romano-British date (c.1200 BC-AD 400). The miniature axe head is sub-rectangular in plan and triangular in section with a total length of 17.6mm. The ‘mouth’ of the axe is solid (2.1mm thick x 6.7mm wide) with a small central drilled hole (c.1mm diameter) probably representing a socket. The width narrows on one side to an integrally cast loop (4.0mm long) with a small perforation c.1.6mm in diameter (the loop begins 2mm from the mouth). The sides of the object are straight and one side (same …
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-2F7C04
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy miniature votive axe of Late Bronze Age to Romano-British date (c.1000 BC-AD 400). The axehead is sub-rectangular in plan and triangular in section with a total length of 21.6mm. The socket is sub-rectangular (9.3mm wide x 5.7mm thick) with a rectangular recess (internal dimensions 4.5mm x 2.0mm). The faces are flat and converge to the blade edge (10.4mm wide). The sides are flat with one side including a moulded rounded knop representing a loop that is flush with faces (5.8mm long) and has straight sides. A small drilled hole perforates the axehead below a…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-E2C4C4
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy mini-terret of Late Iron Age or Roman date (100 BC to 100AD). A sub circular cast ring with a nearly D-shaped cross section (prior to corrosion) and a flattened back. There are a pair of moulded stops either side of the attachment bar. The top of the hoop is a maximum of 3.6mm thick and the hoop thickens gradually towards the stops, which are 4.8mm thick. The object is 17mm in diameter from the top of the hoop to the attachment bar and 18.2mm in diameter across the hoop. The object is covered by a smooth brown-green patina, which is missing from about a third of the…
Created on: Monday 8th June 2020
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alton Barnes, below White Horse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-04D4D4
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age copper alloy enamelled fragment, probably from a terret with triple projections of 1st – early 2nd century AD date. The probable terret was cast and is fragmentary with a section of hoop and a single projection of an oval enamelled setting remaining (with a surviving length of 27.0mm and a weight of 7.1g). The hoop is oval sectioned and widens slightly towards the projection (with a width of 5.9mm – 7.7mm and a thickness of 3.4mm – 4.1mm). The interior of the hoop has heavy wear facets and if the curve was regular, suggests a diameter of approximately 4…
Created on: Thursday 16th July 2020
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-4BEA6F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper alloy brooch of Colchester Derivative Harlow type, dating to the Roman period (c. 50-80 AD). The brooch is complete apart from the corroded, largely absent spring, pin, and axis bar. The head of the brooch has two rectangular wings 23.4mm wide, and 7.2mm high, with a curved section with a concave reverse to hold the spring. The centre of the reverse of the head has an integral plate with two perforations (now covered by corrosion product) to hold the chord and axis bar. The iron mechanism as a whole now survives only as a corroded lump affixed to the brooch…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-5FE6F1
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bracelet fragment, of Roman date, belonging to Cool's Group XXXVIII The bracelet is of unusual form and type and is incomplete, distorted and worn, represented by half of the original (with a distorted length of 47.9mm and a weight of 24.1g). Both ends may have been hinged, with at least one end having a removable axis bar. One of the ends has peripheral lugs (giving a maximum width of 26.1mm and a thickness of 4.0mm), which are slightly longer at one end and containing a slot, possibly to remove the axis bar. Remnants of the iron axis bar are present within…
Created on: Friday 14th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-053AC5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval to early Post-Medieval copper alloy chafing dish handle of 15th to 17th century date. The handle is fragmentary, with only the outer end present, which is of bifurcating form and is broken at both ends (with a surviving length of 23.2mm and weighing 11.2g). The looped handle (56.5mm wide at the bifurcated end) is of sub-hexagonal section (between 3.2mm and 4.5mm thick and between 4.8mm and 6.2mm wide). The surface is corroded with remnants of a dark-green patina and with file marks evident on one face. The handle is likely to been attached to a lug riveted through the di…
Created on: Tuesday 26th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-91AFC4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative with Trumpet-style knop brooch,of Roman date (c. AD 98-138). The brooch consists of the foot, catchplate and part of the bow, which ends in a break. The bow at the break is roughly flattened rectangular in section with the lower part of a rectangular single cell, which would have contained enamel. Below this cell, the bow narrows and thickens, with a transverse mouldings reminiscent of an acanthus forming the apex of the bow. Below this, the bow narrows to down to the simply moulded foot, with the solid, intact catchplate proje…
Created on: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-F86C15
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy collar from a Late Medieval or Post Medieval composite knife handle. The object is roughly egg shaped in section, with a smooth, unfaceted outer surface curving from a lower point to an upper flattened surface with a notch in the blade adjacent edge. The blade adjacent face is bevelled to meet where the blade would have been, while the opposite face is squared off. There is a slightly tapering socket running through the centre of the collar. The socket is an elongated trapezoid in cross section, suggesting that the knife was single edged. This collar would have fitt…
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-9171E9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn, incomplete copper alloy or billon Iron Age coin, likely a stater of the South Western Region / Durotriges, dating c. 60-20 BC. As ABC, pg. 111, no. 2169. Coin is undersize and heavily worn on the obverse. Obverse: Wreath, cloak, and crescents Reverse: Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail, pellet below, many pellets above. Diameter: 16.3mm Weight: 2.77g
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-7B6F89
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Hod Hill type, panel without side lugs, dating to the 1st century AD. The brooch is missing the pin and portion of the catch plate (total length 33.7g). The wings are sub-oval in plan, perforated by a copper alloy axis bar, spanning a width of 13.0mm. A rectangular pin slot in the back accommodated a hinged pin, now missing. The bow is D-shaped in section and decorated with moulded transverse ribs of alternating size: going down the bow, the first is small and decorated with small notches; followed by a more prominent rib (4.1mm thick x 6…
Created on: Monday 31st July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
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