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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-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-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-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
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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.
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