Record ID: CORN-260FF9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Uninscribed Iron Age silver unit of the Belgae tribe dating from c.50-20 BC, 'Hampshire Helmet' type, ABC 851.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Sunday 12th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-8FCBF5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of thirty-three cast copper alloy axes mainly contained in one incomplete pottery vessel with four axes having been disturbed and removed from the upper section of the vessel and an additional casting jet found afterwards about 15 metres away that may be associated with the hoard. Report by Dot Bruns, Finds Liaison Officer for Lancashire and Cumbria in March 2005: Description 1. Socketed axe (SF 1), Sompting Type. Complete. Double mouth moulding with bulbous upper and thinner lower mouth moulding. Square mouth with rounded corners. Casting seams very thin and visi…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mylor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-234546
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy socketed sickle dating from the Early Iron Age, c.800-700 BC. The crescentic blade is 120 mm long, 35 mm wide and 2 mm thick and has a flat mid-rib on both faces defined by a pair of grooves that are 14 mm apart near the socket and taper to a point 12 mm in from the end of the blade. The outer edge of the sickle blade is thinner at 1 mm and sharper, though damaged, than the internal edge which is 1.5 mm thick, but the internal edge is usually considered to be the cutting edge on sickles so this would appear to be a double-bladed tool. The socket is at right angles to…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-116D51
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age silver unit of the Belgae tribe based around Hampshire, probably 'Hayling Stalk Lips' type, ABC 863 (David Holman pers comm), which dates from c.50-40 BC (Rudd, 2015, Issue 76, no.17).
Created on: Saturday 24th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 26th August 2019
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Record ID: CORN-BF4719
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourth addenda to the find previously reported under 2016 T19 and 2017 T501. The coins consist of half of a gold Iron Age stater from the Western British Iron Age coin producing area (traditionally associated with the tribe referred to as the Dobunni, issuing coins in Gloucestershire, Avon, Oxfordshire and surrounding counties). The rest of the Iron Age coins are gold quarter staters, including 10 of the same type from the Southern British Iron Age coin producing area (traditionally associated with the tribe referred to as the Belgae, issuing coins in Hampshire, West Sussex and n…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-E27859
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete upper stone of a rotary quern of coarse-grained greisen, dating from the late Iron Age to the Roman period. The quern is broken across its diameter, the remaining fragment representing about half of the original stone, being D-shaped in plan and plano-convex in section. There is a large fragment missing from the lower surface at one end of the break and a smaller fragment from the upper surface at the opposite end; the damage is mostly ancient although there are several smaller areas of recent plough damage. Allowing for the damage, the external diameter is approximately…
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-02F5E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age Dobunnic D-type Anted Rig gold stater of Anted (c.AD 20-43). The Dobunni were a tribe that lived in the counties of Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bristol and Avon. Van Arsdell, 1989, p.277, no.1069-1 Hobbs, 1996, p.168, pl.97, no.3027 Cottam, de Jersey, Rudd, and Sills, 2010, p.106, no.2066
Created on: Saturday 18th May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 26th May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-6217F4
Object type: BLOOM
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bloom of impure iron solidified on a flat surface to form the plano-convex profile and ovate section. The bloom is partly magnetic suggesting that it is not pure iron and therefore more likely Iron Age or Romano-British in date as in more recent times they would have hammered out the slag completely to purify the product (John Smith pers comm). A bloomery is a term used to refer to a furnace used to smelt iron from its oxides and the bloom is the product of that process and usually contains a mixture of fine iron particles, un-reacted iron oxide (ore), slag and charcoal residue. This …
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
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Record ID: CORN-14AEB7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sandstone bead, round in plan and sub-rectangular in profile with almost straight sides and a small central cylindrical perforation which is 6 mm in diameter. The diameter of the perforation and of the bead, at 23 mm, suggests that it was not wide enough to use as a spindle whorl and the perforation too narrow for a spindle, so its likely function was as a bead or pendant. The bead is pitted where inclusions have been eroded out of the basic fabric and there are still fragments of quartz and felspar visible. Threipland (1956) illustrates a stone bead-like spindle whorl, tall with s…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2019
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Record ID: CORN-111E0B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A spindle whorl of mica schist dating from the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.700 BC- AD 500). The whorl is circular in plan and rectangular in profile: 28 mm in diameter, 12 mm in height, 10 mm in thickness and 15.42 g in weight. The whorl has a circular perforation which is 9.5 mm in diameter and within 1 mm of the centre, ensuring that it would be well balanced when in use during the spinning process. The perforation is slightly hour-glass shaped, indicating that it was drilled from both sides, probably with a bow drill using a flint or metal tip. The schist is a pale pinky-g…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-08B6B8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A micaceous hornfels spindle whorl dating from the Iron Age to the Roman period. The whorl is sub-circular in plan, varying between 42 mm and 42.5 mm in diameter, and sub-rectangular in profile, varying between 6.5 mm and 9 mm in thickness, weight 27.75 g. The circular perforation is 6.5 mm in diameter and is distinctly off-centre, being at its closest 8 mm from the circumference and at its furthest 20.5 mm; the perforation appears to have been drilled from one side only, resulting in some slight splitting of the stone around its edges on the side where the drill emerged. Stone spindl…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-F6FD0F
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age (c.100 BC - AD 100) cast copper alloy winged type terret ring with a D-shaped profile and expanded terminals which taper to either end of the lozenge-shaped strap bar. The ring is oval in section with three applied oval 'lips', 25 mm long and 18 mm wide, set parallel to the ring, each with two wings, 3 mm thick, on either side that fan out at 90 and 45 degree angles from the upper surface of the ring. The ring as a whole has an external diameter of 71 mm and an internal diameter of 53 mm, and the diameter of the ring in section is 7 mm at the apex, expanding to 15 mm at …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th December 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E873CD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stater of South Western uninscribed type minted by the Durotriges of Dorset and Somerset in the first century AD. British Museum Catalogue Type: 2810; ABC 2175; Van Arsdell Type: 1290-1, which is dated from 30 BC to AD 10, but current thinking now dates them from the first half of the 1st century AD. The style of these coins derive originally from Gallo-Belgic gold staters which were copying Greek gold staters in circulation at the time, with the head of Apollo on the obverse, and a horse and chariot on the reverse. The evolution of this coin's design is: Gallo-Belg…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-C1215F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy strap fitting from the Late Iron Age (c.100 BC - AD 100), circular in plan, 16 mm in diameter, 4 mm in thickness and weight 4.05 g. Approximately 1 mm in from the circumference the fitting has been pierced by a tear-shaped hole, 4.7 mm in diameter; diametrically opposite it is a linear piercing 9 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. There are signs of wear around the edges of the circular piercing, suggesting that a fastening cord may have passed through it. On the obverse face a 5.5 mm long and 0.5 mm wide linear incision has been made, connecting the two piercings to produce…
Created on: Thursday 27th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-23155B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete micaceous pink slate spindle whorl, circular in plan and sub-rectangular in profile, with parallel faces. ranging in colour from grey, black and pinkish. The whorl has been perforated through the centre and the hole is circular in plan and cylindrical in profile, 9.1 mm in diameter and 6.8 mm deep, and very close to the centre so that the whorl would be balanced while used in the spinning process. The hole is slightly flanged as it opens out at the surface of each face and was probably drilled with a bow drill with a flint or metal tip. There appear to be circular recesses …
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-62F0F1
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bridle bit with part of the mount remaining at one end of the eye ring which tapers to half of the snaffle link on the other side. The eye ring would have joined the rein to the snaffle link which was placed in the horse's mouth. The eye ring is D-shaped in plan and section with an aperture that is 14 mm in diameter. The snaffle link is cylindrical and circular in section, with a length of 23 mm and a diameter of 8 mm. The mount is sub-rectangular, having been worn into an oval to the edge of the eye ring, but was probably originally either circular or square in plan…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: CORN-1728DA
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Schist spindle whorl, circular in plan and biconical in profile with a central perforation that is 9 mm in diameter and 9 mm deep and slightly waisted in profile. The centre of the whorl is 9 mm in thickness and it tapers to a narrow edge which is on average about 4 mm thick. The schist is grey in colour with small specks of reflective mica and darker platy elongated minerals which could be hornblende or graphite as these are typical inclusions. The edges of the whorl have broken away through wear or damage, as the schist fractures along its planar layers. The surface is pitted and cr…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: CORN-125957
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver or billon South Western Cranborne Chase uninscribed stater of the Durotriges tribe of Dorset and Somerset, ABC 2169, BMC 2626, dating from 58 BC - AD 43. Van Arsdell (1989) classes this Abstract uninscribed type as Durotrigian E and refers to it as of the earlier silver or billon coinages on page 294, no.1235-1, and dates it from 58-45 BC.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: CORN-EDBD2D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Iron Age unit, possibly from the Catuvellauni tribe who were based in all of the counties just to the north and west of London. The coin is incomplete and worn but it bears a resemblance to the Tasciovanus War Trumpet bronze unit (ABC 2676), which dates from 25 BC - AD 10, with a head facing right with two lines and two dots in front of the nose with could be the 'S' of 'TAS' on the convex obverse and a warrior on horseback galloping right on the concave reverse, as the horse's rear and the warrior's head can just be made out, with the 'V' of 'VER' just visible beneath th…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 1st March 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E29EC2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver or billon South Western uninscribed stater of the Durotriges tribe of Dorset and Somerset, ABC 2157, BMC 2550. Van Arsdell refers to this Abstract type as one of the final silver or billon coinages on page 294, no.1235-1, and dates it from 58-45 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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