CORN-C0F685: Modern bird head finial of black basalt ware

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Unique ID: CORN-C0F685

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Pottery fragment of a finial in the form of a bird head made of black basalt ware with a dark purply-black manganese glaze and a fine buff-coloured fabric throughout. There are similar examples of figurative bird heads on black basalt ware vessels, dating from the turn of the 18th century, like two examples illustrated in Morley-Fletcher & McIlroy (1984) on page 289, Nos.9 & 14.

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to the Scheme for educational use

Chronology

Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1800
Date to: AD 1850

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 8.25 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 22nd October 2005

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Materials and construction

Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Glazed

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: St. Anthony-in-Meneage (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SW7624
Four figure Latitude: 50.073819
Four figure longitude: -5.131884
1:25K map: SW7624
1:10K map: SW74NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Fieldwalking
Discovery circumstances: Found while fieldwalking for a controlled CAS project
Current location: Royal Cornwall Museum
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Morley-Fletcher, H. and McIlroy, R.	1984	Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery	Oxford	Phaidon	289,	Nos.9 & 14

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Created: 18 years ago
Updated: 9 years ago

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