Record ID: CORN-156687
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius of Trajan (AD 98-117), mint of Rome, c. AD 104-111.
Created on: Sunday 9th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-161098
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine I, AD 307-310 (Reece Period 15). Reverse: MARTI PATRI PROPVG. Mint of London. RIC VI, p. 132, no. 108.
Created on: Sunday 9th January 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Record ID: CORN-165462
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Diocletian (AD 284-305, GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, London mint, c. 300-303. RIC VI, 6a
Created on: Sunday 9th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-459FB7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman wing-and-discbow or Aesica-variant type (see notes below) brooch, but a variant, with elements of T-shape brooches, namely the long wings. The brooch is corroded and pitted and the decorative moulding unclear apart from on the top of the head where, between the end of the bow and the beginning of the projection in to the wings either side, remains a raised curve, edged with an incised line, like two eye-brows. The bow has been flattened into a disc shape, but it is too corroded for any surface decoration to remain. There are four incised rings aro…
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2005
Last updated: Monday 12th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-45FE15
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged T-shaped or Colchester derivative tapering bow brooch. The pin of the brooch is missing and so is the catchplate. The ends of both the wings and the lower part of the bow have broken off. The wings are tubular and where the wings are broken the iron axis which would have secured the missing hinged pin is exposed. The bow is D-shaped in section and tapers towards the missing foot. It has a moulded knurled crest extending from the head and tapering towards the lower bow. This crest is defined by raised moulding in the form of rectangular bosse…
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4618C7
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy undecorated bracelet. It is broken at both ends and is missing its terminals. It is oval in section and tapers towards the broken ends. The bracelet probably dates to the Roman period. It was found close to two Roman brooches which both date from the 1st-2nd century AD. The length of the bracelet fragment is 100 mm, the diameter is 64 mm and the thickness is 6.4 mm. It weighs 17.33 g. Similar bracelets are known from 3rd-4th century inhumations in Colchester (Crummy 1983, 38, nos. 1640, 1644, fig.42
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-AEF742
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Silver short cross penny of John (1199-1216), Class 4b, issued early in the reign of John c.1199-1205. York mint. Moneyer Nicole of York. Grotesque face with large annulets for eyes, irregularly placed pellets for beard and one curl on either side of the face. The pearls in the crown also run into one line.
Created on: Sunday 16th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-AF4FA2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver sixpence of James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage (1604-1619), dated 1610 over shield on reverse. The bust is like North’s Fourth Bust (Vol.2, p.119) with hair brushed forward and plain armour.
Created on: Sunday 16th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BE4876
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy square coin weight for the Scottish sword and sceptre piece made in the reign of James I (1603-1625). The date of 1603 is on the obverse.
Created on: Monday 17th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BE81D1
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hexagonal Anglo-gallic or French coin weight for the salut d’or of Henry VI (1422-1461), first issued in 1423.
Created on: Monday 17th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-EF2EB0
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy bell, which was probably, due to its size, attached to a hawk or falcon by means of a leather bewit. The bell is made out of four pieces: the upper and lower half of the spherical body which enclosed a pea, and the narrow strip of copper sheet for the suspension loop. The copper alloy pea is still intact. The lower half of the bell has two circular sound holes, 4.4 mm in diameter, conjoined by a thin slot, 0.3 mm in width. The length of the bell, including the suspension loop is 18.5 mm, the diameter of the bell around the raised band is 16.2 mm and its weight is 3…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2017
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Record ID: CORN-EF5EF0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy single-looped D-shaped buckle with expanded outer edges and moulded floral or scrolled decoration. Narrowed and offset pin bar. The pin is formed of a pointed piece of copper sheet folded around the pin bar and incised with two lines across the width of the pin, where it begins to taper beyond the bar. The length of the buckle frame is 38.4 mm, the width of the frame is 23.4 mm and its thickness is 1.6 mm. The pin bar is 29 mm long and 3 mm in diameter and the pin is 22.4 mm long and 4.7 mm thick. The buckle weighs 7.31 g. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar …
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-EF9922
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double-looped ‘vesica-shaped’ spectacle buckle frame with punched annulets running along the outside edge of the frame. There is a perforated loop at either end of the narrowed pin bar, both of which are flush with the frame, and openwork in the shape of a heart within each pointed outer edge of the loop. The pin is missing. The length of the frame s 47.4 mm, the width of the frame is 27 mm and it is 2.2 mm thick. The frame weighs 7.67 g. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example, in shape, on p.67, No.416, and, in openwork, on p.69, No.434, both of…
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-24FD11
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead biconical spindle whorl, circular in plan, measuring 21.8 mm in diameter, around its carinated middle, and 16.5 mm in height or length. There is a central circular perforation through this spindle whorl, which is 9.5 mm in diameter. The whorl weighs 22.6g. There is a prominent ridge around the centre of the whorl dividing it into two hemispheres. The faces of the upper and lower hemispheres of the spindle whorl are decorated with evenly spaced vertical raised straight mouldings, of which there are sixteen. There are also sporadic raised mouldings running from the vertical lin…
Created on: Saturday 22nd January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-257717
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead trade weight or net weight, conical in profile, with an integral attachment loop with a perforation hole of about 3 mm in diameter. The weight is free-standing, with the base almost square in section. It is 36.4 mm in length, 22 mm in width and 22 mm in thickness at it base and 6.4 mm in thickness at its attachment loop. The weight weighs about 91.07 grams which equates to about three ounces. 13th-15th century There is an example of similar shape and size, No.609 on page 99 of Read (1995), which he dates to the 12th and 13th centuries. Bailey (1995) also depicts a…
Created on: Saturday 22nd January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-52DE51
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Scottish silver cut half penny of Alexander III (1249-1286), First Coinage (1250-c.1280), Type III, mint of Aberdeen, Moneyer Ion.
Created on: Monday 24th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-579185
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine (AD 330-335), mint of Rome, with Victory on the reverse as the symbol of the new Constantinople and new Rome.
Created on: Monday 24th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-57B4E6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Contemporary copy of copper alloy nummus of Constantius II (AD 323-361), as Augustus, AD 354-c.402, probably mint of Rome.
Created on: Monday 24th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-AC1453
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy scabbard mount with squared off upper section and lower section tapering to a point. Two rivets remain at the top of the mount and two others remain on the left side of the mount as part of a group of four within the decoration. The two rivets on the right side of this group are missing. These rivets would have attached to a hide cover for a wooden scabbard which may have also been lined. The mount is 55 mm long, 35 mm wide and 1.7 mm in thickness. It weighs 16.77 g. A typical Iron Age sword is 35mm in width, so the scabbard would have been wider. This object is d…
Created on: Friday 28th January 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 30th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-D5D4E2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount or stud decorated with flower pattern composed of central bosses surrounded by rings and pellets and a rope border around the edge of the mount. The upper face of the mount is tinned and only the base of the shank on the back survives. Judging from its size and style, it may have been used as a belt decoration. Read (2001) illustrates another mount with similar shape and decoration on p.31, No.236, which he dates to the 15th and early 16th centuries. Bailey (1997) illustrates a mount with almost identical decoration on p.55, as part of a group of bel…
Created on: Sunday 30th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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