Record ID: CORN-C7B472
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Solid cast tin button, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, with a square attachment loop. The face of the button is quite corroded so that it is difficult to make out the decoration, but there is a slight central knop and three concentric circles between the centre and the edge of the button. There also appear to be some lines radiating from the centre across the circles to the edge. The loop is stepped at each outer edge which could be the result of damage, but both sections are neat and at right angles, appearing to have been deliberate, perhaps helping to grip on to this …
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Sunday 26th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C3AB7D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Commodus (AD 177-192), PACI AETERNAE S / C with COS V P P in exergue reverse type (AD 186-189), with Pax draped and seated left on a throne, holding a branch in her right hand. Mint of Rome. Cf. BMC Vol.IV, p.814, pl.107, fig.6, no.606.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th September 2014
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Record ID: CORN-C38410
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantius II as Caesar (AD 323-337) or Delmatius (AD 335-337), Reece period 17, GLORIA EXERCITVS type reverse with two soldiers standing facing each other with one standard between them, Period IIIa (AD 335-337). Mint letters very worn but perhaps [P]LG so mint of Lyons. Cf. RIC Vol.VII, p.142, pl.2, no.288 or p.346, pl.9, no.401.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd September 2014
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Record ID: CORN-C36F68
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy purse bar, missing the central square-shaped block, with its swivelling loop and neck, and the other side arm, with its suspension loop. The central block would have attached to the broken end of the side arm, which is bent sideways, but would originally have been straight. There is a moulded, stylised, zoomorphic head at this broken end, gripping the side arm, which is circular in cross-section, in its mouth. The side arm is stepped from the edge of the mouth and widens in diameter towards its terminal. There are the remains of niello lattice work or cros…
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2018
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Record ID: CORN-C360C2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead weight, trapezoidal in plan and triangular in profile with a flat rhomboidal base, which is slightly angled so that the weight is only just free-standing. Towards the upper apex of the weight is a central circular aperture that is 6 mm in diameter which would have been used to suspend the weight. The weight weighs 71.15 grams which equates to 2.5 ounces averdepois / avoirdupois. Egan (2005) illustrates similar weights on page 164, Fig.161, Nos.846 & 850, which are dated from c.1530-1570 and c.1630-1650.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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