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Record ID: CORN-8299F6
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery rim sherd of a large storage jar, with an inside diameter of about 280 mm and an outside diameter of about 340 mm. The rim is 'complex' with a finger-impressed 'pie-crust' pattern along the upper edge of the everted outer rim or flange.
The sherd is a light brown colour throughout and the underside has been black-coated. The fabric contains mica, felspar and augite inclusions, which suggests that it is made from gabbroic clay, originating from the Lizard.
Similar storage jars have been found at other sites in Penwith, such as Porthmeor, Porth Godrevy and Reawla, which dat…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-828E53
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery rim sherd from a bowl with a 'Cornish flanged' (Quinnell, 2004, p.124) rim. The flange below the rim is pointed and horizontal, but damaged, and angled at about 90 degrees from the body of the bowl. Above and below the flange are recessed grooves which help to define the flange from the body of the bowl.
The fabric is is a light browny grey colour throughout and contains mica, felspar and augite inclusions, which suggests that it is made from gabbroic clay, originating from the Lizard. The exterior surface looks as if it was originally black-coated, now mostly worn …
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-828078
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd of a Dressel type amphora (Carl Thorpe pers comm). The sherd is made up of a hard rough fabric, orange in colour throughout, with small mica and dark grey-coloured augite inclusions, and large chunks of quartz.
Quinnell (2004) refers to sherds of Dressel Type 1-4 from Trethurgy on page 101, but these are not illustrated but dated from the Late Iron Age to the Roman period.
Late Iron Age to Romano-British period
c. 1st century BC to 2nd century AD
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-8272B1
Object type: POT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery cordoned body sherd of a round-bodied jar with two parallel cordons on the side of the vessel as it curves towards the rim. The upper cordon is about 6 mm thick and the lower one about 8 mm thick. The fabric is a uniform orange to light brown colour throughout, with an oxidised exterior, and looks to be gabbroic as it has inclusions of white felspar and grey augite, as well as mica. The surface of the pot has been burnished during manufacture and there are incised lines above and below the moulded cordons, helping to define them. It is well made and high fired, which suggest…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th June 2013
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Record ID: CORN-8261B6
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd decorated with a single impressed twisted cord in two lines, with one line running horizontally, parallel to the rim, and the other obliquely at about a 45 degree angle.
The surface and core of the sherd have been oxidised to an orangey brown colour. The interior surface of the sherd has been wiped, and there is the impression of the textile used on the surface, probably before reaching the 'leather-hard' stage while drying, in order to remove surface condensation. The fabric looks, from macroscopic investigation, to have mica, white feldspar, and grey augite incl…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7EF303
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery rim sherd of Southwest Decorated ware with internal groove, on the top of the rim, and external impressed dashed line, below the rim, helping to define it.
The surface and core of the sherd has been oxidised to a light brown colour. The surface of the pot has been burnished during manufacture and a few patches of carbonised material remain on the exterior, just below the rim. The fabric looks, from macroscopic analysis, to be gabbroic, as it has inclusions of mica, white felspar and a dark grey mineral which could be augite. Gabbroic clay, sourced on the Lizard, was extens…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7EEE35
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Group of seven undiagnostic pottery sherds, including three base sherds and one twisted everted rim sherd, probably all from jars. The surfaces and cores of the sherds have been oxidised to a light brown colour. There are carbonised remains on the exterior surfaces of most of the sherds. The fabric looks, from macroscopic analysis, to be gabbroic, as it has inclusions of mica, white felspar and a dark grey mineral which could be augite. Gabbroic clay, sourced on the Lizard, was extensively used during the Iron Age in Cornwall. Late Iron Age in date (Carl Thorpe pers comm).
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2016
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Record ID: CORN-7EE6C5
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Group of sixteen undiagnostic pottery sherds, all body sherds.
The surfaces and cores of the sherds have been oxidised to an orange to light brown colour. There are carbonised remains on the exterior surfaces of most of the sherds. A few sherds are also burnished. The fabric looks, from macroscopic analysis, to be gabbroic, as it has inclusions of mica, white felspar and a dark grey mineral which could be augite. Gabbroic clay, sourced on the Lizard, was extensively used from the Iron Age to the Post-Roman period in Cornwall.
Late Iron Age to Post-Roman period in date (Carl Tho…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7EE1D8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery bar-lug guard sherd of grass-marked ware. The curve of the raised guard was used to protect the bar behind and beneath it, and the rope attached to the bar, from the open fire that the pot was suspended over. The surface and core of the sherd has been oxidised to a light brown colour. The surface of the pot has a thick layer of carbonised material all over the exterior. The fabric looks, from macroscopic analysis, to be gabbroic, as it has inclusions of mica, white felspar and a dark grey mineral which could be augite. Gabbroic clay, sourced on the Lizard, carried on being use…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
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Record ID: CORN-7ED811
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery base sherd, possibly from a shallow platter, of grass-marked ware, with the impressions of grass or chaff clearly visible on the base of the sherd. The surface and core of the sherd has been oxidised to a light brown colour. The surface of the pot has a thick layer of carbonised material on the exterior, just above the base. The fabric looks, from macroscopic analysis, to be gabbroic, as it has inclusions of mica, white felspar and a dark grey mineral which could be augite. Gabbroic clay, sourced on the Lizard, carried on being used during the post-Roman period and into the Ea…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
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Record ID: CORN-7EA0E4
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery base sherd with part of the body of the vessel remaining, suggesting from its curvature and angle that it came from a shallow bowl. Without the rim it is difficult to classify and date.
The surface and core of the sherd have been reduced to a dark brown colour. There are carbonised remains on the interior surface of the sherd. The fabric looks, from macroscopic investigation, to have mica and a lot of crushed quartz inclusions, which is typical of the granitic clay used during the Romano-British period in Cornwall.
This style of bowl was found at the Romano-British settle…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-72FD04
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch, circular in plan and flat in section. The edge of the brooch is defined by a ropework border, made up of groups of four raised oblique lines, alternating with plain sections. The interior of the decorated face holds a central bifid arch of foliage, ending in three points, and bordered above by nine circular beads and below by seven. This pattern, with internal foliage and external beading, resembles a 'paisley' print, brought to Scotland from India in the early 19th century. There are more patterns of foliage above the arch, but most of these are obscured by t…
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-71FB50
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with two rounded ends, and plano-convex in section. The muller is flat and smooth on the face that was used for rubbing, and convex on the opposite face, where it was held and pushed across a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make flour.
The elvan is a fine grained granitic inclusion and contains pale pink felspars and black quartz. The soft felspars would work into hollows and the hard quartz would stand proud of the surfa…
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-5E39D1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Brass dupondius of Trajan (AD 98-117), countermarked with a a laureate design. It is assoicated with Antioch and was added before the Jewish Revolt of AD132-5. It has been suggested that this countermark relates to Hadrianic activity in the East. The other countermark in front of the head is unclear, but possibly of the same type.
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2007
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-5D4081
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy contemporary copy of a radiate, copying a coin of Tetricus II, SPES AVGG reverse, probably struck c.AD 275-85
Cunetio, p. 164, c.f. no. 3033
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-5CA361
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus (AE4) of Flavius Victor, SPES ROMANORVM reverse, mint of Arles, c.AD 387-8
LRBC II, p. 57, no. 561
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B8D780
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy sword belt hook decorated with blue inlaid enamel in the form of three lions passant. The plate is rectangular and is enamelled with two of the lions. The back of the plate retains two blunt integral cylindrical rivets to attach it to the leather strap. The hook is shield-shaped and depicts the third lion.
Read (2001) illustrates two shield-shaped mounts with similar enamelling and blunt cylindrical rivets on page 32, Fig.17, Nos.255 & 257, which are dated to c.1300 and c.1280-1350, respectively. No.255 has three lions passant and this is referred to as the Roya…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-B8C301
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy furniture escutcheon with a central cross forming a boss, surrounded by a ring of pellets, in relief, and then an outer ring of moulded rectangles, in relief, alternating with flowers, which form the border. Two integral copper alloy screws survive and the iron corrosion product around each of them suggest that they may have originally been nuts.
Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar example on page 16, No.4, which has a threaded moulding on the reverse to take an attachment screw, and is dated from the mid-18th century to the early 19th century.
Read (1988) illus…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B8A6E2
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount with a figure of a cherub with its wings out-stretched and holding open the 'leaves' of a flower below its torso. Each leaf or side arch has a perforated rivet hole in it. This would have attached the mount to a vessel or piece of furniture, along with the flat strap of copper alloy that is attached to the back of the cherub's shoulders and has since broken off the vessel. The flat rectangular strap appears to have the shadow of a triangular extension to it above, leading up to the back of the cherub's head. Below the flower are the legs of the cherub, with a p…
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-B88520
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double-looped bit or bridle link with a debased zoomorphic head in centre between a circular looped terminal at one end and a square terminal at the other end. The head has two eyes, in relief, with a brow ridge above and a triangular nose section between them. It appears to have an iron stud at the end of its nose or coming out of its mouth, which may have had something mounted onto it. The circular terminal has four moulded transverse knops, each pair opposing the other, and equally spaced around its circumference.
It appears to be related to cheek pieces of Will…
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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