Record ID: CORN-CB7532
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy rim fragment and body fragment from a bowl or cooking vessel with an internally bevelled rim that is triangular in profile and flush with the upper edge of the vessel. The body of the vessel curves downwards slightly, in profile, to suggest a reasonably deep straight-sided bowl, and the curvature of the rim, in plan, suggests a diameter of about 240 mm. The bevelled rim itself is 4 mm thick which then tapers to the body which is 2.3 mm thick. The internal surfaces of the fragments are smooth and the external surfaces are rough with many parallel horizontal lines whic…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CB62B3
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy fragment of the body of a cauldron from the base of the vessel where it curves under to meet the legs. There is a single raised, rounded cordon, 43 mm long and 3 mm thick, that runs horizontally along the body fragment, just below and almost parallel to the upper broken edge. These ribs are similar to the wire moulding on the Westcountry cauldrons illustrated by Butler and Green (2003) on page 165, nos.170-172, which are dated from the 15th to the 16th century. The straight-sided shape and flat underside of the vessel wall suggests that is might be more of an elongat…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CB35AC
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy one-piece decorative saddle pommel. Only two thirds of the pommel remain as the area where the rivet holes would have been has been sheared off. There may have been two other wings at either side with rivet holes in them, but these have been broken off if they existed. There is also a rectangular section that has been torn off one edge. There are two bands of engraved linear decoration running along the length of the pommel at a diagonal from the pointed end of the pommel, where there is a protruding knop, to the engraved band crossing the width of the pommel at the …
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Monday 29th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-CB17F1
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy one-piece decorative saddle pommel. Only two thirds of the pommel remain as the area where the rivet holes would have been has been sheared off, leaving only half of the central rivet hole at the end of the pommel. There may have been two other wings at either side with rivet holes in them, but these have been broken off if they existed. There are two bands of engraved linear decoration running along the length of the pommel at a diagonal from the pointed end of the pommel, where there is a protruding knop, to the engraved band crossing the width of the pommel at the…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Monday 29th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-C927BD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt finger ring with a moulded bezel in the form of a multi-lobed cross with eight raised granules around a central cross with equal pointed arms within a diamond-shaped border. On the opposite end of the hoop are a moulded pair of clasped hands with incised fingers and moulded transverse cuffs, typical of a fede or 'faith' ring. The decorative device of two hands clasped in love and trust is found all over Europe, on brooches, and on rings, such as this example. As the clasping of hands was part of the medieval betrothal ceremony, it is not surprising to find rings decorated …
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Record ID: CORN-5DF0A3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver groat of Mary Tudor prior to her marriage to Philip of Spain (1553-1554), mint mark pomegranate, perforated for suspension, Spink 2492. The coin is torn around part of the circumference and the head on the obverse is almost worn away from handling. The inscription on the reverse of VERITAS TEMPORIS FILIA is only found on the coins of Mary Tudor, and translates as "Truth, the daughter of Time".
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-5DEA55
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy thimble, domed with no central hole, with circular pits drilled in vertical lines from the base to the top of the sides then spiralling round a plain domed crown or tonsure with no pits. A few of the pits at the top of the thimble have been punched through, possibly where a needle has pierced the pit through use. There are traces of an engraved line around the base of the thimble. Most thimbles of this period had pits spiralling round the circumference. Egan (2005) illustrates a thimble with similar vertical lines of pits up the sides and spiral pits around the he…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-5DC73C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double loop trapezoidal buckle with missing pin, dating from 1620-1680 (Whitehead, 1996, p.84, no.527). The buckle has undulating moulding between the rounded knops on the narrow end of the frame and between larger lobed knops which flare out as winged extensions on either end of the wide end of the frame. There is a central narrowed pin bar which is trapezoidal in section and 2.5 mm wide and 2 mm thick.This type of buckle is known as a "butterfly" buckle (Whitehead, 1996, 81) and was probably used to buckle spurs. See record LIN-0C58F7 for a virtually identical b…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Saturday 18th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-5DB47B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut half of a short cross penny of John (1199-1216), Class Vb1 (c.1205), moneyer Iohan, mint of Canterbury. The class is Vb1 (Wren 1992, pp.52-53), distinguished by the fact that on the obverse the hand holding the sceptre divides the obverse legend between the E and X of REX, whereas the majority of legends on all classes of short cross pennies are divided between the R and EX. Mass (2001) illustrates a very similar penny of Iohan of Canterbury, Class Vb1 in plate 51, no.1365, which is dated to 1205.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Saturday 18th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-595365
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut farthing of a short cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Short Cross Coinage (1216-1247), Class VIc3 (c.1217), with third curl just visible to right of nose, ovoid pellet in centre of beard and base pellet of sceptre directly below beard, and position of 'S' and 'R' in the obverse legend which are not ornamental letters, moneyer missing, Canterbury mint, Mass 1822.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Sunday 19th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-594C84
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver voided long cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Long Cross Coinage (1247-1272), Class Vf (1256-1258), with double band to crown and ligatured 'NR' in obverse legend and 'AN' in reverse legend, moneyer Gilbert, Canterbury mint, Spink 1372.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-582695
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy flat seal matrix of the secular clergy, dating from the thirteenth to fourteenth century. The seal matrix face is vesica shaped (oval with pointed ends), favoured by women and churchmen to take a standing figure. At the back of the matrix, behind one of the pointed ends, there is a perforated lug, 7 mm in diameter and 3.4 mm thick, with a perforation that is 2.7 mm in diameter. The lug then extends to a rib that tapers from 4 mm to 2 mm in width and is 21 mm long and terminates at the opposite point. The central device depicts the Virgin Mary holding Jesus at the ape…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-31CA1B
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gabbroic greenstone axehead with the blade half of the axehead remaining. The axehead is sub-rectangular in plan with straight parallel sides, triangular in profile and ovate in section where it has broken away from the rest of the axe which would have tapered towards the butt end. The opposite blade edge has been damaged through use, but is symmetrical in profile. Both faces of the axe have been pecked and ground from a greenstone cobble, with one face more pitted than the other, probably due to being more exposed to weathering than the other side since deposition. A si…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2017
Last updated: Sunday 7th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-F386F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing ends type, West Midlands) brooch which would have had two parts and is now missing its separate spring mechanism and pin, as well as most of the bow and the foot and catchplate from this surviving part. Between the two wings, at the head of the brooch, is the remainder of the loop for the chord that extended from the spring. The wings are hollow at the back to house the spring and the ends are curved over to hold the axial rod. The front of the wings are decorated with a pronounced transverse rib and gr…
Created on: Saturday 11th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F38191
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman sprung Polden Hill type brooch which would have had two parts and is now missing its foot and catchplate on this part and its spring mechanism and pin, which formed the second part at the back of the brooch. Between the two wings, on top of the head, is a small knop which is the remains of the base of the hook for the chord that extended from the spring. The wings of the brooch are short, hollow and semi-circular in section with broken holes at either end where the axial rod would have been held. Each wing is curved backwards and finishes in a rai…
Created on: Saturday 11th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F37BC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch with just the bottom half of the bow, the foot and the catchplate remaining. The bow is thin and flat in section at the broken upper end and terminates in an everted pedestal foot with most of the catchplate behind. The bow is plain except for a slight collar above the foot, while the foot itself is divided into two as in a hoof below another moulded collar. This form of everted pedestal foot with collars above appears in the South-western developed brooches from Nornour on the Isles of Scilly, illustrated in Cornish Archaeology Vo…
Created on: Saturday 11th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F376B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman Polden Hill type brooch, Group (a), dating from the 1st century AD (Bayley & Butcher, 2004, 90). The brooch is spring fastened, with the spring carried in a semi-cylindrical cross bar which has closed ends to hold the axial rod. The spring has nine turns, with the final turn ending in the centre of the axial rod and extending to form the pin. The chord is held by threading it through a lug on the crest of the head. Bayley & Butcher (2004) categorise this method of fastening as Type 6 on page 33, fig 20, no.6, where the chord is held by either a hook or a perfor…
Created on: Saturday 11th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-BB1A86
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfpenny of Charles I (1625-1649), with a rose on both faces and no inscriptions, Spink 2851.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2017
Last updated: Sunday 12th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-BB13E6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649), Rose Type 2 (1636-1644) with small double arched crown with crossed sceptres just crossing the inner circle on the obverse, and a crowned rose on the reverse, mintmark illegible, Spink 3202.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2017
Last updated: Sunday 12th February 2017
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Record ID: CORN-BB0751
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver half groat of Charles I (1625-1649), Group A without bust, crowned rose within a pelleted inner circle on obverse and reverse, mintmark illegible, Spink 2822.
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2017
Last updated: Sunday 12th February 2017
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