Record ID: CORN-957973
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of earthenware amphora base, with four concentric ridges running parallel from the base upwards, and fossilised marine organisms on the surface, indicating that it has been under water for some time. The fabric has been high fired so that it is hard, almost like stoneware, with traces of copper green glaze on the interior of the vessel, and inclusions which, along with its shape, suggest that it was used for olive oil and made in Seville in the late 16th to mid 17th century. Hurst, Neal & Van Beuningen (1986), illustrate a similar example on page 65, Fig.29, No.81.
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-DA8D03
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead ampulla with damaged edge where the neck has come away from the body. The body has also been crushed so that the original shape is lost. What remains of the body suggests that the obverse was moulded into the shape of a scallop shell: 'scallop-shell type I' according to Spencer (1990, p.60). The reverse has a moulded border running around the inside of the edge of the body, but it is too worn to determine if there was a letter, symbol or pattern within it. Spencer (1990) illustrates similar examples on pages 87-8, Figs.175-177, Nos.132-134, which are dated to th…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-327A62
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isles of Scilly
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy penannular arm band or arm-ring made up of a curved flattened rod, convex in section, with expanded and flattened terminals. The terminals and the band are decorated with punched dots and incised rouletting in radiating lines on the terminals and criss-crossed across the band which makes it appear like rope. The terminals are 25 mm in length and 18.6 mm in width. The manilla is 180 mm in total length, 12.5 mm in width and 5 mm in thickness and has a diameter of 64.4 mm. This arm-ring may have been worn, but it also may have been made from or used as a 'manilla'. Ma…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2005
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2016
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Record ID: CORN-4152A2
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint barbed and tanged arrowhead, arrow-shaped in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The two barbs are short and stunted and do not extend to the end of the tang, but instead are at right-angles to the tang and end at the point where the tang begins. The arrowhead is bifacially worked throughout and there are two notches, one half way along the left edge of the ventral face, and the other between that and the point. The flint is a dark grey colour, and may have come from Beer Head in Devon. The length to breadth ratio is 3:2. Bond illustrates a similar example on…
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6C85C1
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Spherical, annular, cobalt blue glass bead with a trailed white glass paste pattern and a central hole with a diameter of 4 mm. White opaque glass threads have been coiled around the blue glass bead and then marvered. The white threads were then pulled upwards to create this wave pattern. The bead compares in size and shape to an example in Crummy (1983) on page 33, Fig.34, No.617, in colour to No.562, and in style of decoration to Fig.33, Nos.543 & 546 which both have marvered trails and are dated to the Roman period. Roman beads in stratified local contexts are r…
Created on: Saturday 31st December 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-FDAE64
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy incomplete crotal bell with the ‘sunburst’ pattern decorating the upper and lower parts of this spherical-shaped bell. Within each sunburst is an incised line, like a ray. The maker’s mark of a founder's hammer is within an oblong shield on the base of the bell. There is a central raised rib which divides the upper and lower halves of the bell. One of the two lower halves of the bell is missing. On the upper half of the bell, there are two circular sound holes (4 mm in diameter) on either side of the suspension loop, which is made up of a circle (3 mm in diamete…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-602527
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Sheet copper alloy pear-shaped, pendant bell with flat suspension loop. The bell has four pointed terminals which have been folded inward at its base giving four tear-shaped holes. The back has two edges of the sheet folded together and overlapping to complete the body of the bell. The shape of the suspension loop suggests that it would have been hung against a flat surface. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 58, Fig.37, No.464, which is dated to the 14th century. Bailey (DF1) illustrates a similar example on page 36, No.1, which is dated to the 15th to 16th century.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-753832
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy crotal bell with no decoration. There is a central raised rib which divides the upper and lower halves of the bell. On the upper half of the bell, there are four circular sound holes, each about 5 mm in diameter, two on either side of the attachment platform for the suspension loop, which is missing. On the lower half of the bell, there is a slit which runs perpendicular to the central rib, along the circumference of the bell, almost until it meets the rib on both sides. The metal ball clapper remains within the bell. Bailey (1992) has a similar but much larger exam…
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B5BEE5
Object type: BIRD FEEDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead/tin alloy incomplete aviary or cage bird feed or water trough with flat bottom and flared top half with moulded band and rim. The body of the vessel has been indented and damaged and one side of the vessel is missing. Read (1988) illustrates and similar example on page 98, number 606, which is dated to the 15th century.
Created on: Monday 30th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-20E523
Object type: BIRD FEEDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead/tin alloy incomplete aviary or cage bird food or water trough with flat bottom, and flared top half with moulded band and rim. The body of the vessel has been pushed out by the finder after having been flattened in the soil, so that it is now semi-circular in plan. There is a small perforation in the middle of the back of the vessel, which was probably used to suspend the feeder within the cage. Read (1988) illustrates and similar example on page 98, number 606, which is dated to the 15th century.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-AD5DC1
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint serrated blade, narrow and lozenge-shaped in plan, triangular in section, and slightly convex and arched in profile, with sub-parallel lateral margins, bimarginal worked edges, and rounded distal and proximal ends. Some cortex remains at the tip of the distal end on the dorsal face and from the proximal end, running along the dorsal ridge for about 20 mm, which suggests that the implement has been made from a secondary flake. There are also a number of scratch marks on the ventral face of the distal end, running from the right edge inwards, and more scratch marks running from the…
Created on: Sunday 17th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-D845B6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint serrated blade or saw, ovate in plan, lozenge-shaped in section, and convex and arched in profile, with sub-parallel lateral margins, unimarginal worked edges, and a rounded distal end and truncated proximal end. There are two notches, one near the distal end on the left edge of the dorsal face, and one near the proximal end on the right edge of the dorsal face. No cortex survives on the dorsal face, which suggests that the implement has been made from a tertiary flake. There are also a number of scratch marks on the ventral face of the right edge, running from the edge inwards, …
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-ED2947
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint serrated blade that is sub-rectangular in plan, with sub-parallel lateral margins, and triangular in section, with a central dorsal ridge. The original flake was struck off a large blade core with two platforms. No cortex remains suggesting that this is a tertiary flake. The blade seems to have been prepared but not reworked as such (Alison Roberts, Ashmolean Museum, pers comm). The ventral face has some scarring above the proximal end, possibly caused by frost fracture, running from the centre of the blade to the left edge. There are two notches just above the bulb of percussion…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-5521C8
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Hookplate from a book clasp made from a flat rectangular piece of sheet copper alloy. These clasps were attached to leather straps fixed to the book and helped to hold it shut by hooking into a corresponding catch-piece on the other side. The end of the plate, with a rivet hole to attach the plate to a leather strap, is flared. The one rivet hole still retains its rivet, but there is a tear from the rivet hole to the edge of the flared end. The opposite end is bent over to form a central hook, 8.1 mm wide, beyond a squared off terminal. Half of the upper face of the hookplate is decora…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-3E4F86
Object type: BOTTLE SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Moulded glass circular seal from an ‘onion’ shaped bottle embossed with Inº Davis 1704. The seal has a boss on the back and a gold coloured skin due to devitrification and one edge has been broken off. There are some records of the Davis family of Perranuthnoe getting married c.1700, but the two names mentioned are Honour and Samuel. John Davis, however, is recorded as having died in 1737, so this seal may have been used to commemorate the birth or baptism of one of his children in 1704.
Created on: Monday 18th April 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-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-FE1306
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman dolphin-type brooch with pairs of leaf-like mouldings down each side of the bow. What remains of the pin is hinged in a wide cross-bar decorated with three sets of incised rings on each side. There is also a set of three incised lines running centrally down the length of the bow from the top of the head towards the foot, which is missing. The style of moulding is similar to the Wilsford Type of T-shaped brooch, such as Hattatt (2000) p.302, No.915, which also date from the 1st century AD. Local comparanda include an example of a dolphin-type brooch fr…
Created on: Sunday 13th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lostwithiel', grid reference and parish protected.