Record ID: CORN-B20737
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stamped lead alnage cloth seal of Charles II (1660-1685), consisting of two sub-circular discs joined by a folded connecting strip. The obverse face bears the image in relief of the bust of Charles II facing right. On the reverse is the image of a crowned thistle with the letter 'I' in the left field, but nothing to the right where the duty in pence is normally represented. The images on both sides are contained within a circular border of incuse rays. There also appears to be part of a border of stamped beading around the rays on the obverse, but parts of the edges are miss…
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B1E796
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy spur with sides that are hemispherical in section with a shallow curve. The neck is oval in section and curves upwards to a straight rowel box, but the terminal and rowel are both missing. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 65, Fig.41, No.498, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B1D656
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy thimble with rounded steel top which has corroded so that the entire thimble is covered in iron oxide, obscuring any pattern on the surface. Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar example on page 14, No.39, which is dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B1BC12
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy mount with trefoil openwork frame, decorated with scrolls and leaf motifs and terminating in a trefoil knop in the form of a fleur de lis. The mount has two integral lugs on the back, worn flat after becoming un-attached. Read (2001) illustrates similar examples on page 35, Fig.20, Nos.300-302, which are dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B177A3
Object type: BALDRIC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy sword belt fitting or baldric ring, circular in profile and D-shaped in section, having a slightly flatter inner edge. The outer surface of the ring or hoop is inlaid with red glass triangles, arranged in a pattern pointing inwards from the edge, so that the alternating copper alloy spaces are triangular or diamond-shaped. The glass is the so called 'sealing wax' glass of the Iron Age, called thus because of the opaque deep red colour. It is technically known as enamel when in fact it is chips of glass inlay. The glass has undergone SEM analysis with Mary …
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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