Record ID: CORN-9A4B2C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy oval penannular brooch with the complete pin still attached. The length of the pin at 49 mm suggests that it was designed to fit transversely across the long length of the oval frame.The brooch is made of a solid copper alloy tube, round in section, with two flattened terminals each rolled back into a spiral in the centre of one long side of the brooch, leaving a small gap in the circumference. The back of each terminal has a short decorative groove cut into it along the length of the frame and the upper scrolled surface has punched ring and dot decoration between two p…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2018
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Record ID: CORN-998D59
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of James I (1603-1625), Third coinage (1619-1625), sixth bust with mintmark trefoil (1624), dated to 1624 on the reverse, North 2126, Spink 2670.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2018
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Record ID: CORN-994049
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy sestertius, probably of Hadrian (AD 117-138), Reece period 5?, probably PONT MAX TR POT COS II S C // ADVENTVS AVG reverse type, depicting Roma helmeted seated to the left on a cuirass and shield facing right and clasping hands with Hadrian to the right who faces left towards her. The legs and figures can be made out but the vertical spear is unclear so has been left out of the description. Mint of Rome. Cf. BMC Vol.III, p.401, pl.76, fig.4, no.1120
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 17th May 2018
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Record ID: CORN-98B2BB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver voided long cross penny of Henry III (1214-1272), Long cross coinage (1247-1279), Phase I, Pre-Provincial Phase, Class 1b, dating from 1247. The initial mark on the obverse is a star above a crescent moon. Mint of London. The king's title continues on the reverse from the obverse; hENRICVS REX ANG / LIE TERCI; LON, which translates as Henry the Third, King of England, London. North 984, Spink 1359.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2018
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Record ID: CORN-8F7229
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt pendant in the form of a Tau or T-shaped cross depicting the Five Wounds of Christ. There is a bleeding heart at the centre of the cross, with three droplets of blood below, with two bleeding hands above, palms facing forward with three droplets of blood below, the fingers extending into each arm of the cross, and two feet below with holes in the middle, pointed downwards in the expanded base of the cross, all within a raised linear border. The base of the suspension loop remains at the top of the T in the centre, but the rest of the loop is now missing. The reverse of the…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
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