Record ID: CORN-CD192F
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy mount in the form of a stylised acorn with an integral suspension loop for suspending a sword scabbard from a baldric. The mount is missing its sheet copper alloy backplate that would have been riveted to the hollow back through the small rivet hole, 1 mm in diameter, just below the pointed terminal, in order to mount it on to the leather baldric. The suspension loop would have had a pendant that would have attached to the sword belt or scabbard. The mount is plano-convex in profile with four chamfered longitudinal sides that follow the curvature of the mo…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Sunday 26th November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CCEB15
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt dating from c.1500-1600. The object is one of the three hooked mounts that would have been suspended from a larger mount riveted to a belt. The hooked mount has foliate decoration and a single hook which terminates in a spherical knop. The suspension loop is still attached to the hook but broken where it would have joined the central mount. The attachment plate of the hook is leaf shaped with small foliate knops at either side just below the hook and at the other end there are two semi-circular cut outs which lead into two larger knops …
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-CCDA02
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy dagger guard with two quillons on either side of a central block, dating from the 16th to the 17th century. Both quillons survive and are hexagonal in section with expanding terminals which end in flat faces which are both decorated with incised plain crosses. The central block is rectangular in profile and oval in plan with a rectangular aperture, 12 mm long by 5 mm wide, for the now missing iron tang to pass through. The junctions of the central block with the quillons are flush with the lower face but recessed from the upper face. The flat face is undecorated but …
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-89C257
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy spur dating from the Post-Medieval period. One of sides has been completely lost but the other survives and is upturned and triangular in section. The extant side tapers from 17 mm wide and 5 mm thick at the neck end to 8 mm wide and 3 mm thick at the broken rounded terminal. The exterior surface of the remaining side is decorated with several panels of incised florets and foliage separated by pairs of parallel lines. The junctions of the sides with the neck of the spur are marked by raised moulded lozenge which narrows into the neck. The neck is a barr…
Created on: Sunday 12th November 2017
Last updated: Sunday 26th November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-89B4D3
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy spur dating from the Post-medieval period. The short sides, which are hemispherical in section, have been broken beyond where the spur would have attached to the boot. The neck is oval in section and quite short but droops in a continuous, elegant, curve in profile. In plan the neck is waisted and widens to a straight rowel box with rounded expanded terminals. The rowel is missing but there are traces of iron reside in one of the suspension holes. Read (1988) illustrates a spur with a similar drooped and expanded rowel box, but with a longer neck, on…
Created on: Sunday 12th November 2017
Last updated: Sunday 26th November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-89A3AB
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy cauldron leg, sub-triangular in plan and plano-convex in section. The attachment to the curved vessel body still remains, and the leg then tapers evenly to a transverse collar and then to the foot which has worn to a rounded end. The outer face of the leg has five vertical ribs, varying in width from 7 mm at the edge, to 11 mm in the centre, which terminate at the transverse collar which divides the leg from the foot. The foot might have originally also been ridged, but it is now so worn it has lost its claw-like terminal. The back of the leg is flat and has been del…
Created on: Sunday 12th November 2017
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-899997
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy cauldron leg, rectangular in plan and profile and plano-convex in section where the collar has broken away from the foot. The leg has parallel sides with five moulded ribs running vertically from the broken upper end and terminating at a bulbous, transverse collar. The back of the leg is flat. The junction with the body of the cauldron is missing whilst the base of the collar is pitted with the foot having previously worn away, probably through use. The back edge of the collar, where the cauldron would have been in contact with the ground, is slightly rounded. …
Created on: Sunday 12th November 2017
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-2144D5
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy seal matrix with a handle in the form of a horse's head, rectangular in plan and in profile, with one end incised with eyes and snout. The handle is perforated with a circular suspension hole that is 4 mm in diameter. The matrix is oval in plan and the design is of two letters 'I' and 'D' with three pellets to the left of the 'I', all within an incised lozenge with four transverse grooves in each outer angle. The seal is 29 mm in height or length, the handle is 17.5 mm wide and 8.6 mm thick and the matrix is 14 mm long and 12 mm wide and 6 mm in height. This is a …
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
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Record ID: CORN-9DAFF7
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy spur bar and terminal, bent in profile and hemispherical in section where the bar is broken. There is a figure-of-eight terminal at right angles to the bar, with three circular rivet holes in a row, to attach to the boot. The central rivet hole is smaller and 4.6 mm in diameter and the outer two holes are 5 mm in diameter. There are two transverse moulded bands between one of the rivet holes in the terminal and the beginnings of the bar. The surface of the spur bar and terminal has partly corroded away but there does not appear to be any more decoration…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-20FDEF
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Post-medieval pewter whistle (c.1800-1880). This hollow whistle is sub-triangular in plan and tapers from the flattened distal end which would have been oval in section to the circular mouth-piece at the opposite end. There is a sub-circular sound hole about half way along the length of the body of the whistle. Just inside the distal broken edge is a raised transverse ridge and there would have been a cap and suspension loop beyond this, looking at the example below, which is now missing. A section of the back of the whistle wall is also missing and the intact barre…
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-20F1DD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and Fourth Issues (1561-1577), mintmark probably lion (1566-1567), Spink 2570.
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-20EE2A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649), Rose Type 3 (1636-1644) with crown with pointed sides and crossed sceptres almost reaching the outer circle on the obverse, and a crowned rose on the reverse, mintmark missing and illegible, Spink 3203.
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-20C664
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double loop spectacle buckle frame, complete with pin which is wrapped around the narrowed strap bar which terminates in triangular knops. The loops are symmetrical and D-shaped in plan. The frame is C-shaped in section with a bevelled underside and a rounded outer edge. There are slight recessed areas of wear on the inside of each loop where the pin has rested. The frame has patches of black lacquer which was coated onto the surface of the copper alloy to protect it from corroding. Dimensions: 21.5 mm in length, 15.5 mm max. width and 1.5 mm thick. Whitehead…
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-20B4CA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double loop spectacle buckle frame with strap bar which is narrowed at the centre where the missing pin was situated. The central strap bar is recessed from the frame and terminates in raised triangular knops. The loops are almost symmetrical and D-shaped in plan. The frame is C-shaped in section with a bevelled underside and a rounded outer edge. There is a triangular notch for the pin rest on the inner edge of one of the loops. There are patches of black lacquer remaining on the surface of the frame which would have originally been entirely coated to …
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-209A31
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount in the form of an acorn. The mount is convex at the front and concave at the rear. At the front it has a curved transverse groove dividing the fruit from the 'cupule' or cupped base. The cupule is decorated with moulded cross-hatching, but most of the original surface has corroded away. There is an L-shaped stalk at the bottom of the mount and a rounded knop at the top, both separated from the main design by a horizontal groove. At the back are two pointed lugs that are circular in section and now bent over and 8 mm long. A similar mount is illustrated in Read …
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-201C8B
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy night latch or slide key, with four internal bars in the bit which would have turned the lock. The key is complete and in a very good condition. The handle or bow is oval in plan and D-shaped in section with an internal diameter of 16 mm, and a slightly expanded inner edge opposite the shank. The bow narrows into the shank which is round in section at this point. The shank or stem has two concentric parallel mouldings along its length, before it meets the bit at right angles, where it is square in section. The bit is shield-shaped with four rectangular projections, t…
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-E6F46E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy double-looped oval buckle frame with moulded decoration on the surviving outer edge and at either end of the strap bar. The frame has a bevelled inner edge and a flat back so that it is D-shaped in section. At the outside edge of the frame there is a moulded rosette with a raised central pellet, but within these, there is no groove or evidence for a pin rest. The strap bar is narrowed and slightly recessed from the upper surface of the frame and has a smaller moulded rosette at either end. There are traces of black lacquer on the mouldings which would have…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F3B498
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount with a bifid terminal at one end and an incurving hook at the opposite end and a moulded rosette in the middle with a central extant iron rivet. Read (2001) illustrates a similar hooked mount with a moulded rosette on the central plate, that was used for suspending a sword scabbard, on page 42, fig.25, no.360, which is dated from the 17th century. Read (2008) illustrates a similar hooked suspension mount with a central riveted roundel which expands into an openwork terminal on page 232, no.828, which is dated from the 17th century and recorded in I…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-E2AA84
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tinned cast copper alloy double loop asymmetrical spur or shoe buckle frame. The frame has a flat base and a convex profile in cross-section. The shape of the frame is sub-rectangular and it has a simple, central, narrowed strap bar, flush with the frame. The pin is missing, together with any plate or strap. The inner edge of the rounded end of the frame has been cast into a point where the pin would have rested, but there is no notch. There are a few patches of tinning remaining on the upper surface of the frame. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a very similar example on page 91, no.5…
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-E28F5B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver groat of Mary I (1553-1554), mintmark pomegranate, Spink 2492.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Last updated: Saturday 14th October 2017
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