Record ID: CORN-A01AE5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Single sheet copper alloy tongue-shaped strap-end, folded lengthways and tapering to a fleur de lis knop at its terminal. The folded side of the strap-end has split open from the middle to the upper attachment edge. There is one rivet hole just below the attachment edge with the rivet still extant, attaching the two ends of the strap-end together. The surfaces of the strap-end are quite scratched, but one face appears to have some crude decoration of diagonal lines with some cross-hatching towards the terminal end. Egan (2002) illustrates similar examples on page 131, Nos.605 & 606, w…
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2019
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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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