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-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-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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Record ID: CORN-D63791
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy ring which is circular in section and may have been used as an attachment or link in a dog collar, as in the example in Bailey (2002) on page 75, Fig.3, which he dates to the 12th-15th century. But the ring is more likely to have been a belt fitment, similar to the example in Bailey (2000) on page 55, Fig.5, which he dates to the 15th and 16th centuries, as it was found with a decorated belt mount of the same period.
Created on: Sunday 30th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-EC1A06
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy ‘Crown’ jetton which may mark a return to a modified form of a traditional design in the aftermath of Charles VII’s acquisition of Paris in 1437. Minted in Paris.
Created on: Monday 31st January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-3DFD83
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfpenny of Edward IV? (1461-1483) Very worn so cannot be sure of the ruler, but looks like an open crown with four contained arches below side-fleurs, and the outline of the hair looks like the ‘brush’ hair of Henry VIII, referred to in Withers (2004), p.40, but it can also be seen on the light coinage of Edward IV, First Reign, c.1464-70 in Withers (2004), p.23, Fig.3c.
Created on: Monday 18th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-3E2348
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth coinage (1351-1377), probably Pre-Treaty Series D (1352-1353) with annulet stops, annulet on reverse and unbarred Roman N, but initial cross too worn to confirm, London mint
Created on: Monday 18th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-43E996
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast pewter spoon stem, circular in section, with a 'diamond'-shaped knop decorated with a central boss and twelve radiating spokes, and below the constriction at the neck of the knop, three concentric rings and narrow shield-shaped motifs are engraved into and around the stem. The length of the stem and knop is 83 mm, the diameter of the knop is 7.4 mm and the diameter of the stem is 4.8 mm and it weighs 15.89 g. Similar pewter spoon stems with diamond-type knops are illustrated in Saunders (2001) on page 116, Fig.37, Nos.168 & 172. The knop with its 'pimple and radiate lines' also …
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Record ID: CORN-BB1044
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy signet ring with an octagonal bezel incised with the letter ‘S’ within an octagonal border. The bezel is 15 mm long, 9.4 mm wide and 2.6 mm thick. The hoop is semi-circular in section and is 2 mm thick and 25 mm in diameter. Cherry in Saunders (1991) illustrates a similar ring incised with the letter ‘R’ on page 46, Fig.12, No.19, which he dates to the 15th century.
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BB5496
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy ring with a ‘stirrup-shaped’ hoop and a claw setting for its missing cabochon of glass or lapis lazuli. Each lozenge-shaped shoulder is decorated with two transverse lines and three lines radiating outwards from the setting. The setting is 7.4 mm long, 5 mm wide and 3 mm thick. The hoop is semi-circular in section and is 1.6 mm thick to 2.6 mm thick at the shoulder, and 22 mm in diameter. Murdoch (1991) illustrates a similar example on page 131, No.308, which she dates to the 13th century. Egan (1991) illustrates an example with a claw setting on page 328, Fig…
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BBFFA1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double-looped, oval spectacle buckle frame, missing its pin. The frame has a flat base and a convex profile in cross-section and a simple, narrowed, central bar which is 2.5 mm thick. The frame has concave sides and rounded ends to the loops which have cusped or serrated outer edges. Each loop has eight filed grooves, giving the outer edge of the loop a cusped appearance, and one filed pin rest on the inside edge. The length of the frame is 34.5 mm and its width, from one end of the pin bar to the other, is 22 mm and its thickness is 2.3 mm. Whitehead (1996) illus…
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BC1EB6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Venetian soldino of Agostino Barbarigo, 1486-1501, type 9 1499-1501 [ven]
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-68DB80
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead trade weight or net weight, a flat rectangular prism in profile, with an integral attachment loop with a perforation hole of about 6 mm in diameter. The base is rectangular in section but not flat so that the weight is not free-standing. It is 32.3 mm in length, 16.6 mm in width and 6 mm in thickness at it base and 5 mm in thickness at its attachment loop. The weight weighs about 19.94 grams which equates to about three quarters of an ounce averdepois. Biggs & Withers (2000) illustrate a similar weight on page 31, No.67, which is probably medieval. Bailey (DF2) also illu…
Created on: Monday 2nd May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-929027
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a small cauldron, with central rib on its exterior and everted base. Read (1995) illustrates a similar example on page 95, No.588, which he dates to the 13th-17th century Butler & Green (2003) illustrate a cauldron which they term 'Mid-Wales type' on page 139, Fig.2, and a skillet on page 142, No.146, which they date to the 15th-16th century
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-286F84
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete sheet copper alloy cylinder or ferrule with rivet hole. The cylinder is broken at both ends and has folded in on itself so that it is difficult to see whether it is tapering towards the end without the hole. The rivet hole has probably not been used as there is no distortion to its circular shape and no corrosion around the hole from an iron or copper alloy rivet. Ottaway and Rogers (2002) illustrate a similar example from Bedern on page 2854, Fig.1431, No.14277, which is dated to the 13th century. Margeson (1993) illustrates an example with two rivet holes on page 78, …
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-449124
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast bronze round coin weight, uniface, with crown above three lis in a shield and with a crowned lis on either side of the shield. French or English weight for the French ecu issued from Charles VII’s reign (1422-1461) to the ecu a la couronne neuf of Louis XI (1436-1475).
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4ED054
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver short-cross cut halfpenny of Stephen (1135-1154), lozenge and fleurs type, similar to an example minted in Leicester (North 898), but legends illegible.
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 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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