Record ID: CORN-765634
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete weathered and altered gabbro axehead with what appears to be hornblende vein inclusions. The butt end of the axehead is formed and has survived and the blade end has been damaged through use and resharpened. The axe is also slightly waisted along its length showing wear from being bound to a wooden haft. Since deposition the axehead has been struck by the plough which has left several gashes to the surface on the ventral face, while the dorsal face remains unfinished and retains the original surface of the cobble that it was derived from. The face sh…
Created on: Thursday 9th July 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-88FDAB
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern silver bracelet terminal in the form of a moulded zoomorphic head incised with circular pupils within lentoid eyes surrounded by a banded pattern of parallel chevrons with transverse grooves creating a scale-like skin, with moulded vertical ears with a central groove, and a curled upper lip and snout and an open mouth. The underside of the mouth and jaw also has a pattern of transverse grooves with perpendicular parallel incised lines between them, giving the appearance of scaled skin. The slightly recessed broken end is not a socket but solid, suggesting that this is a termina…
Created on: Sunday 28th June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 23rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Hilary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-888714
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete coarse-grained gabbroic greenstone axehead which is a typical torpedo shape that is formed of the local Group I type rock (Mik Markham pers comm). The surface of the axehead is pitted where the gabbro has weathered and rotted out of the axehead from lying in groundwater since deposition. The axehead has been utilised and then disposed of. A flake (39 x 25 mm) has come off the ventral face of the blade end during use but the butt end is missing a section (26 x 12 mm) from the dorsal face which has been struck and has broken off since deposition. The face shape has taperi…
Created on: Sunday 28th June 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-DE8FCA
Object type: CLEAVER
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint bifacial cleaver made on a Levallois flake with a U-shaped (Wymer Type H) form in plan, and a lozenge-shaped profile with a straight edge (Wymer Type e), dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period. The cleaver has a straight transverse cutting edge at the distal end opposite to the curved butt end (Wymer Type b) at the proximal end which has partly been removed by an invasive flake, perhaps to remove the natural fault in the flint which remains as a patch of white cortex. The cleaver edge has been formed by the removal of tranchet flakes from the right lateral edge of the ventra…
Created on: Saturday 2nd May 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: CORN-B4E0E4
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone macehead or pebble hammer, oval in plan and in profile and section with a central perforation that is circular in plan and an hour-glass shape in profile. The macehead is made of white quartzite and was probably derived from a local beach cobble nearby. The implement was worked from the cobble, pecked and ground into shape, as it still retains evidence, in the form of little indentations on the surface, of the pecking process used in shaping. The central hole was then bored by using sand and a drill and the 'hour-glass' shape in profile suggests that the macehead was drilled fro…
Created on: Friday 1st May 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2BBC19
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hammer stone, ovate in plan, profile and section, 98 mm long, 75 mm wide and 48.5 mm in thickness or height, weighing 542.4 g. The hammer stone is made from a large beach pebble of hard, fine-textured dark grey stone with dark patches from organic staining. The ventral side of the pebble has been weathered to a pale grey colour where it has come into contact with plant material within its original deposit. The pebble is unmodified apart from an oval patch, approximately 50 mm long by 30 mm wide, at one end which has been flattened by multiple percussion events in its use as a hammer…
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2BB377
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two single-platform flint microcores, left with the scars of flake removals to produce microliths, dating from the Mesolithic period. One is 28.5 mm in length and 25.5 mm in width. The second is squatter than the first, 18 mm in length and 35 mm in width and retains a large patch of coarse cortex indicating that it was derived from a local beach pebble. The cores are coated with a creamy-white surface patina from exposure to hear and sunlight but would have originally been a darker grey in colour. Butler (2005) illustrates a group of Mesolithic, single-platform bladelet cores fr…
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-26179A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Trajan (AD 98-117), Reece period 5, S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S / C reverse type depicting standing central figure with legs together creating solid base like Spes in BMC Vol.III, p.171, pl.29, fig.7, no.810.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th May 2021
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Record ID: CORN-260FF9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Uninscribed Iron Age silver unit of the Belgae tribe dating from c.50-20 BC, 'Hampshire Helmet' type, ABC 851.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Sunday 12th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-68C636
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy flat axehead dating from the Migdale tradition of the Early Bronze Age, c.2200-2000 BC. The sides of the axehead look slightly raised on both faces but that is because the original surface, which has turned dark brown in colour, has only survived around the edges making it look crisper, and also on the blade above the slightly expanded but worn and rounded cutting edge. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal in plan, triangular in profile, tapering towards the cutting edge, and rectangular in section at the butt end. The blade narrows towards the damaged butt end,…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-7E719F
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint knife, sub-rectangular in plan, rhomboidal in profile and triangular in section, dating from the Neolithic to the Beaker period. Made on a tertiary flake of fine-textured flint with no cortex remaining. A small area of the striking platform remains a the proximal end together with a distinct bulb of percussion and bulbar scar on the ventral face. Faint conchoidal ripples are visible along the full length of the ventral face, terminating in a hinge fracture at the distal end. The dorsal face bears the scars of the removal of three earlier longitudinal flakes and the proximal en…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Sunday 8th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-5BB2FA
Object type: COSTREL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isles of Scilly
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pottery barrel costrel of Merida red ware from Spain dating from the 16th century. The costrel is 325 mm long, 245 mm wide and 255 mm in height and at the neck, 8 mm in thickness. The fabric is a hard sandy ware with fine white mica inclusions and is reddish orange fading to pale orange in colour. It may originally have been coated with a thin layer of slip, but prolonged immersion in sea water has eroded the surface which is now coated with thin patches of marine salts and occasional calcified fragments of the tunnels of marine invertebrates. The main body of the vessel is a hollow…
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-5BA832
Object type: MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a two-part stone mould for metal casting, probably dating from the Romano-British period. It is sub-rectangular in plan, trapezoidal in profile and plano-convex in cross section. It is 112.5 mm in length, 93.5 mm in width, 62.5 mm maximum thickness tapering to 31 mm and 960.5 g in weight. The upper surface has been ground to produce an ovoid recess which is 72 mm long, 54 mm wide and 30 mm deep. There is a narrow channel cut into the upper surface between the edge of the ovoid and the upper (wider) margin 3.55 mm wide and 2 mm deep, which was used to allow the air to esca…
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Sunday 16th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-CAA036
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast enamelled copper-alloy Roman Head stud hinged brooch dating from the late 1st century to the late 2nd century AD. The base of a loop remains at the head of the bow between the wings which survive as square front plates that have recessed cells which still hold enamel in the left wing. Behind the wing plates there is a narrow tube in which the missing axis bar would have rotated. The hinge and pin of the brooch are also missing. At the head of the brooch is a raised disc or 'head stud', 6 mm in diameter, which is decorated with a moulded cruciform design. Below the head stud the…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-CA98E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver long-cross penny of Edward I (1272-1307) or Edward II (1307-27), Class 10cf3 (1307-1309) with narrow closed E and C with projecting serifs and flaws in the E and h which has a stunted tail (Cf. Wood, 1989, p.44, Table 1, nos.13 &15), London mint.
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Saturday 29th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-CA9147
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A milled silver shilling of William III (1694-1702) dated to 1697 on the reverse, Exeter mint, Spink 3500.
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 27th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-CA8D26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver threepence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and Fourth issues, 1561-77, with a small flan (13.5 mm), mintmark Eglantine (1573-1578), date 1575 on reverse, Spink 2566.
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 27th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-F39374
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy tanged chisel dating from the Ewart Park phase (c.950-850 BC) of the Late Bronze Age. The chisel measures 52 mm in length, 19 mm in width and 14 mm in thickness at the collar. Only 8 mm of the length of the tang remains which is square in section, 6 mm x 6 mm, above a transverse spheroid collar which is circular in plan, 14 mm in diameter and 10 mm in height, which separates the tang from the flattened blade, which is triangular in plan and in profile, and expands in width from 10 mm, below the collar, to 19 mm at the broken edge and narrows in thickness f…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 1st March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-9C7593
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete moulded copper-alloy mount depicting the head of a satyr, faun or the god Pan, with a beard and truncated horns in the forehead, at a 45 degree angle between facing and being in profile. The remains of the horns are projecting stumps that are now 3 mm in height and 3.5 mm in diameter. The ears are not pointed, as they are normally depicted in classical representations of the satyr, which suggests a post-Roman date. The reverse is concave with the broken end of a rivet immediately behind the moulded nose on the front of the face. The broken edges behind the head and below…
Created on: Saturday 11th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Levan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-9B1AF2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman finger ring with a flat oval bezel and the beginnings of the the hoop which is mostly missing beyond the bezel and is D-shaped in section and in profile. The bezel is moulded with the raised Roman numerals XIII, within a round border, which may represent the Thirteenth Twin Legion or the Legio tertia decima Geminia, a legion of the Imperial Roman army. It was one of Julius Caesar's key units in Gaul and in the civil war, and was the legion with which he famously crossed the Rubicon on January 10, 49 BC. The legion appears to have still been in existe…
Created on: Saturday 11th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Levan', grid reference and parish protected.