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Record ID: CORN-0E67A1
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd from an S-profile beaker decorated with a single twisted cord impressed in a chevron pattern on the beaker's exterior surface. The single twisted cord is more unusual on beakers, which are often comb impressed, but locally it is part of a tradition that continues throughout the Bronze Age, and is commonly seen on Trevisker ware.
The fabric is a uniform light orange throughout with a slightly reduced interior surface and is likely to be made of gabbroic clay from the Lizard as it has light felspar, dark augite and quartzite inclusions.
Beaker period c.2500-1700 …
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-9872C6
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone and small saddle quern. The muller is sub-oval in plan, with one rounded end and one flat, where the edge is broken. This edge is not as abraded as the rest of the rubber, suggesting that the surface was exposed after the rubber was originally deposited, and is therefore a later break. The stone is flat on the side that was used for rubbing, and concave on the opposite face, where it was used instead as a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make f…
Created on: Sunday 27th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B2A682
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axe head, missing its side loop, mouth and moulding. The mouth would have been sub-rectangular in plan. The surface is worn and pitted, especially along the casting seams, but there is a layer on one face that remains so that three ribs are still visible, between the side edges of the axe head. The ribs extend down about three quarters of the length of the body of the axe head, and the central rib is more pronounced and appears to be the longest. Half of the other face is missing, and has exposed the organic material still held within the axe. The…
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
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Record ID: CORN-C5C0B5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axe head of South Wales/Stogursey type. It consists of the moulding at the mouth of the socket and the upper edges of the ribs on the body. The side loop and rest of the mouth and body are missing. The thick moulded collar with a moulded raised parellel ridge below it and multiple ribs, coming off at right angles from the ridge, suggest that this is a Llyn Fawr or Sompting-type axe. The moulding is sub-square in plan, curving at one edge, at the begining of one corner. There are 4 ends of the ribs present, suggesting that the whole face of the …
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-DC10C1
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone (epidiorite or dolerite) whetstone or muller with two worked edges, probably used to polish metal, although the base may also have been used as a rubbing stone, to grind grain.
The muller is sub-oval in plan, with one rounded end and one flat, where the edge is slightly damaged. The stone is sub-triangular in section, flat on the side that was used for rubbing, and also worked on the other two oblique faces, where it was used instead as a base for polishing metal implements. The muller base would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones …
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-90A647
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy shield pattern palstave; Crediton type. Broken blade and butt ends with worn down flanges. The remains of a raised edge, in the form of a shield can be seen below the stop ridge. The surface is heavily pitted and has a dark green patina with light green corrosion.
L. 162mm; W. (blade) 52mm; W. (butt) 20 mm; Th. (flange) 40mm; Wt. 525.15g Dimensions (millimetres/grams) L: length Th: thickness W: width Wt: weight
The two shield-pattern palstaves are not identical with this palstave having a more pointed and longer shield, indicating that they were cast in differe…
Created on: Wednesday 31st October 2007
Last updated: Sunday 3rd November 2013
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Record ID: CORN-9155C2
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy shield pattern palstave; Crediton type. Broken blade and butt ends with worn down flanges with one missing. The remains of a raised edge, in the form of a shield can be seen below the stop ridge. The surface is heavily pitted and has a dark green patina that is encrusted with light green corrosion.
L. 156mm; W. (blade) 51mm; W. (butt) 26 mm; Th. (flange) 33mm; Wt. 450.3g
This was found with another shield pattern palstave, but they are not identical with this palstave having a rounded and shorter shield indicating that they were cast in different moulds. Nonethel…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 6th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-71FB50
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with two rounded ends, and plano-convex in section. The muller is flat and smooth on the face that was used for rubbing, and convex on the opposite face, where it was held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour.
The elvan is a fine grained granitic inclusion and contains pale pink felspars and black quartz. The soft felspars would work into hollows and the hard quartz would stand proud of the surfa…
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B62B84
Object type: PESTLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coarse-grained gabbro cobble with heavy use as a pestle around most of the perimeter (Henrietta Quinnell forthcoming). The pestle is round in plan, with two rounded sides, and plano-convex in section. The pestle is flat and smooth on the face that was used for rubbing, and more convex on the opposite face, where it was held and pushed across a base or mortar for grinding. The gabbro is a coarse-grained variety, probably from Cudden Point, Perranuthnoe, about 4 miles across Mounts Bay (Jens Andersen pers comm), containing pale pink felspars and dark grey pyroxene inclusions. The soft f…
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-A99B98
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold rod, possibly from an unfinished twisted torc or arm/neck ornament. It is square in section with two broken ends. These edges have been made using a swage with a triangular indentation which creates a feathery edge that has then been hammered back into the metal, as they could not file them off as they would now, and can be seen as wavy lines on the sides of the fragment (Martin Page pers comm). Similar examples have been found individually, from Paul parish (CORN-B6B241). If it is an unfinished twisted neck ornament as seems possible, then it would date from the Middle Bronze Ag…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2013
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This findspot is known as 'Camborne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CORN-B9EAF0
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete muller or rubbing stone made from a broken beach cobble of hornblende schist that has evidence of minor usage wear on the flat base (Dr Roger Taylor pers comm). The muller is sub-oval in plan, with one rounded end and one straight-sided, where the edge is broken. This edge is not as abraded as the rest of the rubber, suggesting that the surface was exposed after the rubber was originally deposited, and is therefore a later break and not deliberately broken. The stone is flat on the side that was used for rubbing, and convex on the opposite face, where it was used to push th…
Created on: Saturday 12th March 2011
Last updated: Sunday 20th March 2011
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Record ID: CORN-E43286
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete whetstone worked from a bladed beach pebble of silty sandstone that has trimmed and faceted ends and a faceted edge on both sides (Dr Roger Taylor pers comm). The whetstone is sub-rectangular in plan, with two rounded ends and straight sides. There are percussion marks and damage at both ends and a large chip missing from one edge. There are also many grooves cut into the surface, perhaps by the plough, though there are three incised chevrons in a herring-bone pattern on one face, which may be deliberate. Both faces are flat and worn where they were used for sharpening and …
Created on: Monday 14th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: CORN-138FA4
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete whetstone worked from a bladed beach pebble of silty sandstone that has a trimmed and faceted end (Dr Roger Taylor pers comm) and flat vertical sides. The whetstone is rectangular in plan, with straight sides and one broken end. There are percussion marks at the faceted end and a large flake missing from the opposite end. Both sides and one face are flat and worn where they were used for sharpening and polishing metal. There are Devonian (Portscatho Formation) sandstones, potentially suitable for whetstones, on the coast between Loe Pool and Polurrian Cove in the northwest …
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: CORN-A41066
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint barbed and tanged arrowhead with a wide tang and both barbs intact, which curve into semi-circular pointed terminals, which do not quite meet the level of the base of the tang. The arrowhead is bimarginally worked around its entire edge and on both the ventral and dorsal faces.
The flint is a light grey colour, probably made from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 4:3.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar barbed and tanged arrowhead on page 125, Fig.5.110, Sutton Type C (l), which is dated from the Early Bronze Age.
Keene (19…
Created on: Thursday 17th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 21st June 2010
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Record ID: CORN-FD2517
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy blade from a palstave or Middle Bronze Age flanged axe, sub-triangular in plan and sub-rectangular in section, tapering to a point at one end where the blade terminates. The ends of the central ribs survive on both faces of the blade, below the broken end, but the blade above this is missing so there is no evidence of the median ribs dividing a shield shape below the stop-ridge. The blade is broad and only slightly expanded and because the stop-ridge, flanges and possible side-loop are missing, it is difficult to date this fragment. The raised central rib is wide and…
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
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Record ID: CORN-FB7C17
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a stone muller or rubbing stone that was used for grinding foodstuffs and appears to have also been re-used, perhaps as an anvil, within the central shallow depression, but the surface within the depression is not typically worn or glass-like, so it must not have been used to any great extent. In the paper on a late Neolithic palisaded enclosure at Marne Barracks, Catterick, North Yorkshire, Hale et al (2009, PPS 75) illustrate a similar worked cobble on page 275, [F597], and have made some interesting suggestions about its possible use as an anvil stone for flint knapping, al…
Created on: Sunday 4th July 2010
Last updated: Sunday 16th October 2011
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Record ID: CORN-55C363
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy fragment of a dagger, shield-shaped in plan, plano-convex in profile and triangular in section, with a worn central mid-rib, tapering towards the tip of the dagger. The point end of the blade is rounded and the opposite edge broken off so that the rest of the blade and hilt, which would have all been cast as one piece, are missing. The sides of the blade come to a point and are slightly bevelled. The pronounced central ridge running up and down the length of the blade, rounded but not flattened in section, resembles the daggers and swords from the Penard (c.1250-1125…
Created on: Monday 6th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BA3487
Object type: BATTLEAXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
Stone battleaxe, greenstone (dolerite) perforated waisted battle axe, lozenge-shaped in plan, sub-rectangular in profile and oval in section, with faceted butt end, expanded blade and incised linear grooves emphasising the concave profile of the upper and lower faces of the axe. "Incised grooves, that is grooves about 1 mm wide and deep with sharply defined edges, are made by cutting the artefact surface repeatedly with sharp flakes of a hard material such as quartzite. This technique is quite different from those employed to shape and finish battle-axes, namely pecking and grinding" …
Created on: Saturday 11th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 11th July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-5B1303
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint hollow semi-circular scraper, semi-circular in plan and profile and rhomboidal in section, with unifacial retouch from the distal end around the left margin towards the proximal end of the dorsal face. To the left of the proximal end on the ventral face is a triangular edge where a thin layer of cortex remains. There is a deep semi-circular arc on the ventral face, reflecting the strike impact, beyond which the face changes direction at about a 30 degree angle. A flake has been knapped off from the proximal end to the right margin of the dorsal face to hollow out the scraper and…
Created on: Saturday 13th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
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Record ID: CORN-840547
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint end scraper, sub-ovate in plan and triangular in profile and section, with abrupt unifacial retouch at the distal end and along part of the right margin of the dorsal face. There is some natural fracturing, creating a stepped edge at the proximal end of the dorsal face. A layer of cortex remains across the middle of the dorsal face from the mid-point to the left margin and it continues along the left margin to the proximal end where another thick chunk protrudes above the underlying flint.
The colour of the flint is a mottled light grey, and the colour and texture of the corte…
Created on: Sunday 14th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
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