Record ID: CORN-E0A032
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Flint semi-circular scraper, oval in plan and plano-convex in profile, with most of the original cortex remaining on the dorsal face. The cortex has only been removed around half the edge of the dorsal face, following the angle of the flake, in order to retouch the margin to create the scraper edge. The ventral face has some natural fracturing around the edge of the cortex, especially at the proximal end, but the majority of the surface is smooth. The flint is a mottled light brown to grey which suggests that it has been derived from the local beach flint and appears to be the end of …
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-DFF162
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flattened fragment of the side of a pressed sheet copper alloy one-piece thimble with diagonal rows of circular indentations bordered by a plain band and then three concentric parallel rows of circular indentations beneath, the central row having the same size indentations as those above, and the other two rows either side having much smaller indentations. Below these indentations is a plain band about 6 mm in height, although the base of the thimble is missing, where the letters of phrases, owners or manufacturers could be inscribed. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example with b…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-DFBBF5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tinned sheet copper alloy strap end with two shield-shaped plates and two rivets holding them together on either side of the keyhole-shaped openwork on the backplate. There are some patches of tinning on the front and backplate of the strap end, mainly around the openwork aperture. The strap end is quite corroded however, and about half of the original surface is no longer extant. The aperture, although keyhole-shaped, would not have taken a key as there is no aperture in the other plate, and the distance between the two plates is only 3 mm, just enough to hold a leather strap. This st…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd December 2022
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Record ID: CORN-DB77B1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pottery rim sherds and seven body sherds from a Bronze Age vessel that might have been used as an urn or a large storage vessel for food, as it would have originally been over 360 mm in diameter. The colour of the fabric is light brown to orange and varies over the interior and exterior surfaces of the sherds. The inclusions in the fabric include large fragments of pale felspars and grey augite, which suggest that the pot was made using gabbroic clay from the area where it was found, which weathers over the gabbro stone. There also appears to be some other material added to the cl…
Created on: Wednesday 11th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: CORN-42E086
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Flint axehead of mottled grey-brown flint which suggests that it may have been derived from the local pebble beach flint. The axehead is straight-sided and tapers towards the butt end which has a pointed bifid terminal on either side of the notched proximal end, where the axehead would have been hafted. The flake that he been taken off on both the dorsal and the ventral faces at the distal end to create the blade end, which has then also been polished, but the rest of the axe has been left with its flake scars. Both margins have been retouched, but the left margin of the dorsal face a…
Created on: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-41A437
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast gilt copper alloy mount in the form of a moulded lion's head, circular in plan and semi-circular in profile, with a hollow back. The lion's face is in high relief with pronounced eyebrows, nose and mouth, raised spherical eyes with annulets in the centre, and all surrounded by a recessed bushy mane, with defined curls of hair, two of which may represent ears. There is some gilding left on the surface of the cheek, whiskers and mouth of the lion's face. The back of the mount appears to have been blackened which may be pitch that has been picked up from the wooden furnit…
Created on: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-36BD72
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy rowel spur missing its attachment terminals, but retaining half of the hinge on one side, suggesting that the shank was hinged so that the spur could be angled upwards, away from the heel of the boot. The existing shanks are semi-circular in cross-section, with curved outer edges and straight inner edges. The spur is undecorated apart from a ridge at the end of the neck that is connected to the main body of the spur, making it look as if the spur was made in two parts, which it was not. The neck then tapers and droops down towards the rowel box and then ex…
Created on: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-2DF6A6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete solid cast copper alloy composite two-piece button, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, with engraved decoration in the form of a six-petalled flower or rosette alternating with six pointed leaves which protrude from between each petal. The petals have parallel incised lines running transversely through them. The rosette is surrounded by a recessed border followed by a raised border, both concentric, following the edge of the button. The back of the button has the remains of the iron looped wire shank, now corroded into lumps of iron oxide amalgamated with sand, w…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-2C6087
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy spectacle, double-loop buckle with ten recessed round settings for stones, with three opaque white glass stones remaining. The stones are round in plan, 5 mm in diameter, and domed in profile, almost pyramidal, with alternating trapezoidal facets and a rounded point at the apex. The pin bar is narrowed and recessed and the pin is now missing. The edge of the frame is made of ten semi-circular curves, in plan, following the outside of each of the stone settings. Between the circular settings are linear transverse ridges that divide and define each setting. …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-D84395
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dupondius or as of Faustina I (c.AD 105 -141), wife of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), dating from after her death in AD 141 to the end of her husband's reign in AD 161 (Reece period 7). AETERNITAS S C reverse type depicting Pietas standing left raising hand and holding box of incense. Mint of Rome. As RIC III, no. 1162. This is probably a 'Coin of British Association' struck at Rome only for use in Britain - see D. R. Walker 'The Roman Coins' from Bath, p. 298, no. 299 ff. 74 coins of this type were found at Bath.
Created on: Friday 29th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 25th April 2018
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Record ID: CORN-C53982
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy sestertius of Faustina I dating to the period AD 137 to 161 (Reece period 7). Unclear reverse type optimistically identified as AETERNITAS SC depicting Aeternitas standing left. Mint of Rome. cf. BMC 1501, RIC III, p. 162, no. 1105.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 30th January 2013
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Record ID: CORN-8E5F77
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast Russian lead cloth seal with the letters: *S P / C T. R H / *177 on one face and *A C* / KAPONI / II I O O* on the other face John Sullivan writes: DATED SIDE: 1. SP: probably stands for St Petersburg and occurs on 16 other seals in my records, all but one from Scotland. The single other one with SP is from Mistley not far from Colchester in Essex, even though it is held in Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds. 2. The date of 177? is likely as seals recovered with dates in the 1770s (91) are the more numerous than in the rest of the 18th century, with the exception of the 1790s (wh…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Saturday 10th November 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9D1B85
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 43 worked flints, cores and waste flint fragments found in a period of 105 minutes on bare ground on the access strips in a daffodil bulb field. The scatter concentrates towards a bend in a brook with the closest approach foiled by field boundary and country lane. Back from the stream the flints peter out to nearly zero then increase to where the stream is crossed again and the 850+ scatter recorded as CORN-3A0FF2 etc on the other side. The small group recorded here as far as can be seen includes elements from The Mesolithic through to the Bronze Age and is likely another …
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lesingey Lane 2', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-9CAC05
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy toy cannon, described as if it were a functioning cannon. The terminal of the breech end of the cannon has a rounded knop or cascabel button which has two incised circumferential lines and is 4 mm in diameter. The first base ring is 9 mm in diameter and is 3.4 mm from the first astragal (moulding encircling the barrel of the cannon), which is 7.5 mm in diameter, and on either side of the vent or touch hole, which is 1.5 mm in diameter. The circular base of a trunnion, 3 mm in diameter, remains on either side of the second astragal that is half way along th…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-9C6475
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy harness fitting with a large circular rivet in the hollowed back of the attachment terminal, which is tear-shaped in plan. The terminal narrows into a recessed section which is oval in plan, beyond which is a raised bifid border, looking like a sepal from the end of the stem of a flower. The handle then tapers to a straight-sided stem which is oval in section, and broken at the end so the the other terminal is missing. The back of the rivet is 15 mm in diameter, so it would have held something of some weight, but the strap that it was attached to could onl…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-91FFE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Stephen (1135-1154), Local Issue of the Civil War, c.1130s-1145, Southern variant with king wearing collar of pellets and cross moline on reverse with an annulet in the centre, Spink 1295, North 905. The reverse of the coin has been stamped off-centre and is worn all around the edge so that half of it is missing or illegible.
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-91D625
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bead, circular in plan and oval in profile, with a flattened top and bottom. The bead has been drilled once cast, so that it has a central perforation that is circular in plan and an hour-glass shape in profile. The initial aperture is 7 mm in diameter and then it narrows to the inner hole which is 4 mm in diameter. The surface of the bead is slightly pitted and damaged around the edge of the aperture but the general patina is a rich green colour and has survived well. Beads with similar plans and profiles have been recorded on this database as dating from the Iron…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Saturday 10th November 2012
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Record ID: CORN-91A7F8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slate spindle whorl, oval in plan and flat in profile, with parallel faces, a smooth flat edge, and a slightly off-centre perforation. The perforation is about 6 mm in diameter at the surface of each face, and has been drilled from each face, but has only just met in the middle, exposing a small hole about 0.6 mm in diameter. Both of the apertures are off-centre, suggesting that the whorl would not be quite balanced while used in the spinning process, and perhaps this is why the piece was never completed. Slate is commonly used in the county for spindle whorls as it is light and easy …
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-912B61
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead seal used for flour with the names HOSKEN & SON HAYLE. embossed on both faces. W. Hosken & Son was started by William Hosken of Carwin Farm, Phillack in 1852 when he commenced milling at Loggans, a mill still standing, bearing the date 1852 on its south gable. It became the largest milling firm in Hayle and in 1890 joined with Richard Trevithick, grandson of the famous innovator and a Truro based miller, J.S.Polkinghorne to form the partnership "Hosken, Trevithick and Polkinghorne", the initials of which "HTP" were to become a household word for flour throughout…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Saturday 27th April 2013
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F370C8
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
End scraper worked on a flake of grey translucent flint with opaque cream inclusions. It appears to have been a plunging flake from a core as there are parallel scars on the dorsal surface with a hinged termination to one of them. The end scraper scars are parallel and semi-abrupt and work around on to the right margin and finish with a sharp notch. Shaunie found a large deeply concave section granite saddle quern fragment nearby.(632B.1). Butler illustrates a similar end scraper on page 166, fig 70, 5.
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Treassowe', grid reference and parish protected.