Record ID: CORN-9D1B40
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius, possibly of Marcus Aurelius as Augustus (AD 161-180), Reece period 8, with laureate head facing right with curly hair and pointed beard, but the coin is too corroded and the legends missing, and a large area of the original surface of the reverse is missing.
Created on: Thursday 14th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 24th May 2021
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Record ID: CORN-ED30EE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dupondius of Roman Emperor, possibly Domitian (AD 81-96), with radiate short head with hair curving over forehead, facing right, but too corroded to identify and legends missing.
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-ED0F53
Object type: PLATE ARMOUR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy riveted plate, possibly part of a fitting for Roman laminated body armour, such as a cuirass or baldric strap fitting. The six intact rivets are domed on the upper face and flat and flush with the plate on the back. The plate has been folded since deposition and is quite corroded so that any decoration has disappeared. The domes of the rivets have corroded into flat lentoid heads that are about 6 to 7 mm in diameter, but the original more circular edge of the heads can still be made out in most cases. Crummy (1983) illustrates similar plates with domed rivets tha…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-D7F360
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy finger ring with a broken hoop that has one arm bent outwards but would have originally been oval in profile and D-shaped in section, with projecting convex altering to concave shoulders which rise to a high oval bezel. The edge of the setting has mostly corroded away and the stone is missing and may have been made of glass or carnelian, as all that remains is an oval patch of black material that would have held the stone in the setting. The stone would likely have had intaglio decoration. Middleton (1998) illustrates a similar ring with recessed shoulders and an oval …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Sunday 18th March 2018
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Record ID: CORN-D59B29
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Iron Age or Roman (c.300 BC - AD 410) translucent cobalt blue annular glass wound bead, with a wavy or scrabble pattern, which was probably originally white glass. The pattern is in poor condition and has degraded, possibly due to poor workmanship when annealing the bead. This can occur when the heat is not constant or through cooling the bead too quickly when removed from the furnace. The surface of the bead is damaged. Guido (1978) illustrates a similar bead of this style in plate 1, no.10d and classifies it as Group 5A on page 14. While handmade beads with trailed decorat…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-9ECE76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman radiate of Victorinus (AD 269-271), Reece period 13, PIETAS AVG reverse type depicting Pietas standing left with right hand sacrificing over small altar on ground and holding box in left hand, Gallic Mint II, Cunetio 2571.
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
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Record ID: CORN-9EC972
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman radiate of Tetricus I (AD 271-274), Reece period 13, SALVS AVGG reverse type depicting Salus standing left feeding a snake rising from an altar to the left with her right hand and holding a rudder to the floor to the right in her left hand, Gallic Mint I, Cunetio 2617.
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
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Record ID: CORN-9EC247
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman brooch with just the lower part of the bow, the foot and part of the catchplate remaining. The front of the bow is decorated with diamond-shaped recesses in a linear chain which still hold the remains of red and blue enamel. There is a rivet hole at the foot, before it terminates to a point, which would have held an everted pedestal to complete the foot. This style of decoration on this thin and delicate bow and the everted foot suggests that it is part of an enamelled headstud brooch which dates from the 2nd century AD. Hattatt (2000) illustra…
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F8236F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative, Dolphin brooch with just the lower bow, foot and part of the catchplate remaining and missing the main part of the bow, head, wings and pin. The fragment has the remains of worn zig-zag, leaf-like mouldings either side of a pair of central grooves running the length of the bow. The two grooves form the border either side of a moulded cabled pattern down the centre of the bow, which may have originally been enamelled, as on other examples recorded. The brooch looks like a worn version of a similar brooch found in Lanlivery wh…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 28th March 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E36B9D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged Dolphin-type brooch, missing the wings, pin and catchplate. There is iron corrosion product within the hollow back of the head of the brooch suggesting that the hinge and pin were made of iron. The head of the brooch has a flat recessed central square which then steps into a lozenge-shape crest which tapers into a triangular neck that is defined by oblique grooves on either side. There are also incised oblique lines on the lower neck and stamped roundels in transverse rows across the raised lozenge, but the surface is also pitted from corrosio…
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CFB9F9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged Developed T-shaped brooch with intact inlaid enamel dating from the period c.AD 70-160. The head loop, head, wings and upper bow survive while the lower bow, foot, catchplate and pin are missing. The head is composed by two incomplete tubular wings divided by a central hinge slot for the pin. Part of the iron axis bar survives in the wings and is visible in the hinge slot with iron oxide around it. The base of the head loop survives between the wings and in front of the hinge. The head is flat in front of the loop and then turns sharply into t…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CF974C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch with the wings, hinge and part of the bow remaining but missing its pin, foot and catchplate. The wings are complete and extend 9 mm on either side of the head and terminate in decortation that consists of two parallel circumferential lines that contain punched dots and incised chevrons. The top of the head above the copper alloy hinge is corroded and it is possible that there was originally a head loop which is now missing. The head is decorated with two incised triangles that from a diamond-shaped design pointing towards the top of …
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-4442BB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Commodus (AD 180-192), Reece period 9, P M TR P XIII IMP VIII COS V P P S / C reverse type depicting Salus draped, seated left on low seat, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled around altar to left, left arm resting on side of seat, mint of Rome. Cf. BMC IV, p.816, pl.108, fig.1, no.617 which dates the coin from AD 187-188
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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Record ID: CORN-441268
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pelta-shaped mount with looped terminal with integral pointed lug that is 4 mm long at the back of the terminal. The mount is in the form of an expanded crescent or collar with moulded borders and radiating oblique lines that run between the borders. Between these transverse ridges there are trapezoidal cells that would originally have held enamel. Inside this crescent is a pelta-shaped section that still retains some of its red enamel inlay and arcs into a point that almost touches the terminal, creating two areas of crescentic openwork. The object is quite delicate…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-43D414
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Valentinian I (AD 364-375), Reece period 19, SECVRITAS REPVBLICAE reverse type with Victory advancing left holding up small wreath in right hand and palm in left arm, minted at Arles, OF III denotes that struck at third workshop or officina in Arles and there is a pellet under the Roman numeral III, which determines the reference below and dates the coin to the First Period (AD 364-367). Cf. RIC IX, p.57, no.iv(c) and p.64, no.9(a)
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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Record ID: CORN-43A26A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver radiate of Gallienus, sole reign (AD 260-268), Reece period 13, SALVS AVG reverse type depicting Salus standing right feeding snake in right hand from patera held in left hand, mint of Rome. Cf. Cunetio p.113, pl.11, no.1054
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-437288
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver radiate of Quintillus (AD 270), Reece period 13, FORTVNA REDVX reverse type depicting Fortuna standing left holding rudder in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand, mint of Rome. Cf. Cunetio 2344, Normanby 1177
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-4333E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A base silver Roman radiate of Trebonianus Gallus (AD 251-253), dating to the period c.AD 251-253 (Reece period 12). AETERNITAS AVGG reverse type depicting Aeternitas standing left, holding phoenix on globe, left hand raising skirt at side. Mint of Rome. RIC IV.3, p.162, pl.13, fig.1, no.30; Cunetio no. 372.
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 7th April 2021
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Record ID: CORN-431041
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver radiate of Gordian III (AD 238-244), Reece period 12, ROMAE AETERNAE reverse type depicting Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated left on shield, holding Victory in right hand and spear in left Cf. RIC IV, part 3, p.23, no.70 which is the Third Issue dating from AD 240
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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Record ID: CORN-42150D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine (AD 337-364), Reece period 17 (AD 330-348), VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN reverse type depicting two Victories standing, facing each other, each holdng a wreath (c.AD 343-348), mint letter are illegible but like example referenced below from Trier. Cf. RIC Vol.VIII p.151, pl.2, no.185
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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