Record ID: NMGW-DC3233
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy terminal, possibly a strap-end or apron terminal of Roman date The cast fitting is incomplete, missing on face (with a length of 33.8mm and a weight of 6.0g). The top, attachment edge is complete and straight (with a width of 9.0mm) and had a rectangular socket (7.5mm wide and 21.0mm deep) to receive a strap or similar but is now missing on face. The sides are straight and gently convergent towards the base. There is a single perforation for attachment. The fitting is circular at the base of the socket and enhanced with a grooved border before narrowing (to 3.1mm) be…
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-DC230A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of T-shaped or allied type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is fragmentary, missing the pin and leg (with a surviving length of 23.7mm, a surviving depth of 5.4mm and a weight of 0.9g). The missing hinged pin was secured on an iron axis bar with a rolled head, now only surviving on one side (with a surviving width of 11.1mm and a diameter of 2.1mm – 3.0mm). The head is rolled internally. The bow is of rectangular section with straight and near-parallel sides (1.3mm thick and 3.8mm – 4.2mm wide). The front of the bow is decorated with …
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-DC10F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Trumpet type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The cast brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head only (with a surviving length of 16.5mm, a surviving depth of 9.0mm and a weight of 4.5g). The missing spring was secured around a central, perforated lug with a fragment of the copper alloy axis bar within the perforation. The trumpet head is D-shaped, with a flat base (12.8mm wide and 12.0mm long). There was a border around the top of the bow, which has broken immediately beneath the head. The bow appears to have been decorated with a midrib. T…
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-DBF9D9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of uncertain type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The cast brooch is fragmentary, represented by the incomplete head and top of the bow (with a surviving length of 22.7mm, a surviving depth of 10.4mm and a weight of 4.0g). The head is missing the wings (with a surviving width of 8.2mm) but punched marks survive on curved mouldings on the sides of the head. The missing spring was tensioned with a rearward claw. The top of the bow is circular sectioned (5mm diameter). There is the suggestion that the claw extended to form a midrib on the bow but all …
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-40DF72
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
Roman silver denarius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar under Antonius Pius (AD 139-61), dating to AD 140-44 (Reece Period 7), Rev. PIETAS AVG, priestly implements. Mint of Rome. RIC III, p. 79, no. 424a.
Created on: Monday 18th July 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th March 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1F29D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
Roman silver denarius of Hadrian (AD 117-38), dating to AD 119-22 (Reece Period 6), P M TR P COS III, SALVS AVG in exergue, Salus seated left feeding snake at altar. Mint of Rome. RIC II, p. 356, no. 139. 2.43g clipped and corroded
Created on: Friday 10th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2017
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Record ID: IARCW-63DAE2C0D9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
A Radiate of Severina (270-275) Reverse: Uncertain Reference: Uncertain
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Last updated: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blaenavon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCW-63DAE2C0E2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
A Nummus of Constantius II (355-361) Reverse: SPES REIPVBLICE Reference: Uncertain
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Last updated: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cwmbran', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCW-63DAE2C0F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
A Sestertius of Lucius Verus (162-163) Reverse: TR POT III COS II SC FORT RED Reference: RIC III Marcus Aurelius 1345
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Last updated: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Panteg', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-1B66D5
Object type: MORTARIUM
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
Two sherds of mortaria. One of the sherds is a rim sherd, broken at the lip, with crushed quartz and possibly crushed slag trituration grit. The sherd may be Oxford Parchment Ware and dates to the 3rd to 4th century.
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2006
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-BAEBD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
Head and upper bow of a copper alloy Polden Hill brooch of Western Group. The spring mechanism is of developed Polden Hill type with pierced disc terminals to the side-wings to support the axial bar of the spring and the chord secured above the spring by a cast crest in the centre of the head. The bow is a flat D-shape in section, and is flanked by two slight appendages, delineated by a groove, which appear to terminate slightly above the break. A ridge runs from the crest down the centre of the bow. The side-wings are decorated by vertical grooving forming narrow notched ridges flank…
Created on: Monday 21st July 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2017
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Record ID: NMGW186
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Torfaen
Workflow stage: Published
Constantius II (AD337-361). Small bronze coin SPES REIPVBLICE. ?//SMKA = Cyzicus mint (AD355-361).
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cwmbran', grid reference and parish protected.