Record ID: NMGW-37EC48
Object type: ANNULAR BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The reported object is a small annular brooch. The silver frame is of circular cross-section. One half of one face is decorated with wide niello-inlaid transverse grooves, with punched annulets between the niello bands; the other half of the front and the back are plain. The two sides of the wrap-around head, which is slightly wider than the pin shank, overlap at the top; the head swivels freely on the frame. The raise collar at the junction of pin-had and shank is decorated with three transverse punched grooves. The pin shank is of lozenge-shaped cros…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caerwent Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-379142
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The plain pin has a broad wrap around head and transverse raised ridge at the junction with the shaft. Length 28mm; head width 5mm (incomplete); weight 0.99g. The object has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. To judge from its colour and weight and visual comparison with brooches and other silver dress accessories in the collections of the Department of History & Archaeology, the alloy is well in excess of 10% silver. Conclusions The pin form and width indicate that it is from a medieval annular brooch of thirteenth or early fourteenth…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llantwit Major Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-21C823
Object type: ANNULAR BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification Small silver annular stirrup brooch. Groups of transverse grooves inlaid with niello on both faces. The small stirrup has inturned ends and punched grooves along its edge, with two grooves forming an inverted V at the junction of pin and wrap-around head. The pin is complete and has a diamond cross-section, each facet being decorated with zig-zag grooves. Dimensions: max. diameter 12.1mm; thickness 2,2mm; pin length 13.2mm; weight 1.55g. This ring is paralleled by other examples from Wales, including Llanfaes, Anglesey, which was depopulated under Ed…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llandysul Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-9007E5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description and identification Decorative gold posy-ring. The hoop is of flattened-D cross-section, and the outer surface is cast with a repeating floral pattern quatrefoils flowers flanked by foliage, inlaid with black enamel. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: If worthy none So happy, in italic script. External hoop diameter 16.1 mm; maximum band width 3mm; maximum band thickness 0.9mm; weight 1.65g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. Conclusions A similar design has been recorded on a posy ring from Llantwit Major, engraved with the m…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WREX-BA4CC3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The reported object is a gold ring in the form of a band decorated with white enamelled pentafoils and green enamel inlaid sprigs (indicated by ҂⁕҂) separating letters in the following legend: ne ҂⁕҂⁕҂ el ҂⁕҂ autre ҂⁕҂⁕҂ (in Black Letter script). There are traces in while enamel in some of the engraved letters. The inside of the ring hoop is plain. The object has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. The maximum external hoop diameter 17.8mm; internal hoop diameter 16.1mm; band width 4.6mm; band T 0.7mm; weight 1.8g. M…
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanynys', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-F251E0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification Silver annular stirrup brooch. Groups of transverse grooves inlaid with niello on both faces: chevrons separating grooves of transverse grooves in front face, and three groups of transverse groups on the back. The pin is complete and the stirrup has inturned ends and punched grooves along its edge, with slight grooves at the junction of pin and wrap-around head. The pin is complete and has a diamond cross-section, each facet being decorated with zig-zag grooves. Dimensions: max. diameter 15.3mm; thickness 1.9 x 1.4mm; pin length 16.3mm; weight 1.56g. …
Created on: Monday 14th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arthog', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-7FCCB8
Object type: ANNULAR BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The reported object is a small annular brooch. The narrow silver frame is of circular cross-section. Each face is decorated with four groups of niello-inlaid transverse grooves (8 in each group), in alternating positions. The two sides of the wrap-around head overlap at its top; the head swivels freely on the frame. There is a slight expansion at the junction of the pin shaft and head, and the four facets of the pin shank, which is of lozenge-shaped cross-section, are plain. The external frame diameter is 23mm; the frame diameter is 1.mm. The pin and …
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanarmon-yn-lal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-7BF09B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Plain gold posy-ring. The thin, slightly misshapen hoop is of flattened-D cross-section, and the outer surface is cast and plain. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: Wheare this I give I wish to live, in italic script. External hoop diameter 17.5 x 18.4 mm; maximum band width 2.8mm; maximum band thickness 0.6mm; weight 0.93g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. Conclusions The same motto Where this I give I wish to live has been recorded on a seventeenth-century enamelled gold posy ring from Old Beaupre, Vale of Glamorgan (Treasure Case 04.13…
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abergele', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-38D607
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Welsh Treasure Case: 21:14 [Addendum to Treasure Cases 12.13, 13.23 & 14.01] The reported object is a gold ring in the form of a band decorated with two raised pelleted ridges framing three engraved words, spaced with flowers:  de bon cuer (in Black Letter script) ‘in/of good heart’.  The inside of the ring hoop is plain. The maximum external diameter is 16.4 x 18mm; internal hoop diameter 15.2-16.2mm; band width 5.4mm; band T 0.7-0.8mm; weight 1.74g. There are slight traces of white enamel in the engraved leaves below the flower heads. The object has …
Created on: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bronington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-116344
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description The reported object is a cast silver bar mount for a belt. It has plain solid arms (with flat backs), a large central lobe and smaller end lobes, the latter perforated for rivets, each lobe separated from its arms by a plain transverse moulding. No trace of gilding is visible, although the object has been heavily cleaned/polished by the finder. Overall length 23.6mm; thickness 0.9mm; maximum diameter of lobe 7.5mm; weight 0.76g. Summary and conclusions In terms of size and design, the bar mount is of thirteenth- or fourteenth-century date, being represe…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-115F00
Object type: ANNULAR BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Newport
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description The reported object is a small annular brooch. The silver frame is of circular cross-section. One hoop face is decorated with continuous transverse incised lines inlaid with black niello, the other with six groups of transverse incised lines inlaid with black niello. The two sides of the wrap-around head meet at the top, and the pin rotates around the frame. The four pin shaft facets are engraved with irregular zig-zag lines (less well executed on reverse, almost as straight lines), as is the short stirrup and the head. External hoop diameter 18.9 x 16.5mm; hoop …
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-115AD5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description The object is a decorative gold ring with a deep oval bezel (height 5.7mm), once set with a small uncut (cabochon) stone, perhaps a sapphire. There is a small transverse ridge on each side of the bezel at the junction with the hoop, and the lower half of the bezel is chamfered to give a truncated biconical profile. The hoop is slightly misshapen and incomplete, and of circular cross-section. Bezel diameter 8.2 x 6.5mm; hoop thickness 1mm at bottom, 1.9mm at junction with bezel; bezel height 5.7mm; weight 1.69g. Summary and conclusions The Mathern finger ring has a form …
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-1156F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description The reported object is a small silver annular brooch (weight 1.49g.). The silver frame, which is of circular cross-section, is plain. The external frame diameter is 11.5mm; internal frame diameter 7.5mm. Both sides of the pin, which is of diamond cross-section, are engraved with a zig-zag line on each facet, with a transverse ridge at the junction of head and shaft. The head is simply wrapped around a cast restriction in the hoop, and its front is engraved with zig-zag decoration similar to the shaft. Overall pin length 12.55mm; hoop thickness 2-2.1mm Summary and…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-1148D7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold posy ring. The hoop is of flattened D cross-section. The convex outer surface is undecorated. The flat inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: * feare god and loue mee x, in vertical italic script. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. Dimensions: Internal hoop diameter 18.7 mm; external hoop diameter 22.15mm; band thickness1.5; band height 6.2mm; weight 9.7g. Discussion: The style of the lettering and decoration, and form of the ring, indicate that it is of 17th- or early eighteenth-century date (after AD 1650). Similar motto…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-10D52A
Object type: FASTENING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description Silver clothes fastener (resembling a small book clasp). Made of sheet silver, with an integral lug with small rectangular slot. There is a repousse tear-drop boss, flanked by three small circular lugs for attachment. Surviving height 21.4mm; max. 12.7mm; thickness 0.5mm; weight 1.02g. Discussion Dating is reliant on the form and size, and most such finds have been identified as the receiving plate for hooks of various forms to fasten clothing, particularly dresses. The teardrop boss resembles a reversed ‘raised heart’ design, and many similar obje…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-10CCA3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description Gold posy ring in the form of a plain broad band of flattened D cross section. The inner face is engraved with legend *CONTINEW + FAITHFVLL  in Roman capitals. The hoop is slightly misshapen and has an internal diameter of 18.1 x 13.1mm; band width 4.1mm; band thickness of 0.6mm; weight 2.73g. Discussion Dating is reliant on the legend and the style of lettering, which is typical of a seventeenth-century date. Posy inscriptions fall into a number of formulaic categories (see Evans 1931, 54), with mottoes such as ‘Lets live & die in unity’, &lsquo…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-6B5862
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: The object is a silver spoon, now in two parts, comprising a bent handle junction with bowl, and the remaining bowl, folded twice. The stem is hexagonal at the base, becoming circular in cross-section mid-way along the shaft up to the simple devolved conical ‘diamond knop’ terminal with a small transverse moulding at the junction with the stem. The underside of the bowl at the junction with the handle bears what appears to be a quincunx motif (aka ‘cross-in-square’), but which can be interpreted as an equal armed cross with central boss within a square …
Created on: Monday 27th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-B81A3D
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt hat-hook or cap-hook in the form of a pointed pentafoil-shaped flower, soldered to a pin shaft (incomplete) with swan-neck bends. Gilding extend to the back and the pin shaft. Overall dimensions: flower diameter 9.4mm; height 5.5mm; pin shaft diameter 1.3mm; weight 1.23g. Badges and ornaments created to adorn the hats of male Tudor elite are identifiable by the lack of a bar attached to a back-plate - usually found on Tudor dress hooks (Gaimster et al 2002). However, versions of the point flower do occur on sixteenth-century dress-hooks (for example, Gaimster et al…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 31st October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-ED838D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Published
Half of the frame from an annular silver brooch with cut from sheet metal. The external face bears engraved lettering in crudely cut Lombardic style, which appears to read: I S H [reversed h of N] A - (horizontal 'I' unless a dash) The 'S' being on its side, and the motto may be garbled. There is evidence for a restriction in the frame for a pin (now missing). The back is plain. External diameter 28mm; inner diameter 19mm; maximum thickness 1mm; weight 1.47g. The ring, which has a highly worn outer surface, has not undergone any cleaning or conservation.
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-ED536B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Small silver annular brooch. The silver frame is of quatrilobe form, with rounded mouldings in the angles between the lobes. The external frame width is 19.2mm; frame height 19.3mm; frame thickness 3mm. The pin is plain, with an off-centre suggestion of a division at junction of head and shaft. The front of the pin has slight bevelling; the back is flat. The head is simply wrapped around a cast restriction in the hoop. Overall pin length 21.1mm. The object has not undergone any cleaning or conservation
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017
Spatial data recorded.