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
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-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-6A08A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper as of Trajan (AD 98-117), AD 98-102, mint of Rome.
Created on: Sunday 6th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6A3B21
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper as of Vespasian (AD 69-79)
Created on: Sunday 6th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lostwithiel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-6A60E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper as of Vespasian (AD 69-79), Third Consulship, AD 71.
Created on: Sunday 6th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lostwithiel', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

Record ID: CORN-8821A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius or copper as of Trajan (AD 98-117) or Hadrian (AD 117-138).
Created on: Sunday 20th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-886865
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass sestertius of the young Commodus (AD 175-192), during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (AD 139-180) c. AD 179-180 Possibly BMC 1719
Created on: Sunday 20th February 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-8D0922
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy gilt spur rowel in the form of a 'sunburst' with eight angled, pointed rays, oval in section, with central ribs on both sides which have moulded oblique grooves running along them, from the central circular perforation to the tips of the points; four of the points have been broken off in antiquity 17th century
Created on: Sunday 20th February 2005
Last updated: Friday 16th June 2017
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Record ID: CORN-B74EF7
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy umbonate harness mount or bridle boss. Multifoil pattern with nine knops in the form of a four-petalled flower, alternating with eight knops in the form of a fleur de lis and two open-worked circles which would have been the rivet holes. The openwork is asymmetrical with moulded curvilinear ovals surrounding a central fleuret with moulded central knop and twelve petals, within a raised circular edge, and six open-worked heart-shaped petals beyond the circle, following the convex curve of the boss. 17th century
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B7D427
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy sword belt fitment or hanger in the form of a shield-shaped strap-end mount with vine foliage pattern consisting of two fronds, on either side of a central stem and vine leaf, and two vines reaching up in an arc and intertwining into a heart shape. The mount has three rivets and a hook to attach to the loop of the broken belt bar which is also decorated with vine a foliage pattern of five sprigs and has one rivet remaining. The mount has iron corrosion products around its central rivet where it would have been attached to the slings that supported the sword scabbard.…
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-B80876
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Forged copper alloy Jews harp or small mouth-held, lyre-shaped musical instrument which was held by holding the frame between the teeth and striking an iron tongue with the fingers. Remains of the corroded iron tongue are evident in the rabbet or groove at the end of the bow or semi-circular part of the harp. The harp is banjo-shaped in plan and lozenge-shaped in section. Jews harps were current from the Middle Ages right up until the 18th century, but Medieval examples are rare. 18th century
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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-BB35A4
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy open-top thimble or sewing ring with five bands of horizontal and concentric large neat triangular indentations. 16th century
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2019
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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-BB7DE3
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy clothes hook fastener with knotted rope design. The 'rope' is twisted into an asymmetrical quatrefoil openwork, creating three tear-shaped loops, and one semi-circular loop, below a cross bar, which would have allowed the fastener to have been attached onto the garment. At either end of the cross bar, between the bar and the end of each strand of rope, there is a moulded boss in the form of a rosette with five petals. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 118, No.759, which he dates to the 15th-17th century. Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example o…
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: CORN-BBB2B7
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast and gilt copper alloy hooked mount with two separate rivets, possibly for suspending a sword from a baldrick. The square plate is decorated with a moulded eagle and has the remains of half of a loop at the foot of the eagle, just below one of the rivet holes. The orientation of the eagle suggests that the hook was meant to be at the top, attached to the loop of a baldrick mount, and the square plate was attached to the sword belt or scabbard, so that the eagle would be seen the right way up. Read (2001) illustrates a range of examples on page 42, Nos.355-359, which he dates to …
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-BCC0D3
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton of 'Lion of St. Mark' type from Nuremberg, Germany, anonymous issue, c.1500-1570
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
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Record ID: CORN-C03496
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius or copper as c.AD 41-211, illegible
Created on: Sunday 24th April 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-945563
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast gilt copper alloy double-looped, flat, trapezoidal buckle frame, likely used for a buckling spur. The loops have pointed ends and there is a lobed protrusion at either end of the strap bar. The strap bar is narrowed and flush with the frame. The outside edge of the frame is bevelled and it has a flat base. There is a line of punched circles around the edge of the frame and punched rosettes on the outer edge of each loop. The pin is missing but a lump of iron remains attached to the pin bar, as it has corroded onto it. The frame is 47 mm in length, 23.7 mm in width and 3 mm in th…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-BF7963
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy furniture or horse harness mount with central bevelled rectangle that has been pressed into a mould, surrounded by irregular and asymmetrical openwork. There are three integral lugs at the back, two following the curve of one of the outside edge and another at the opposite edge. A fourth lug, at least, is missing, as this edge does not continue. The mount has been sheared in half with the tapered end exposing two broken areas of openwork defined by jagged points. Since having been broken, the mount has been exposed to enough heat, at the wider end with the …
Created on: Saturday 7th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-FC9934
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass square-cut sestertius, probably Faustina I (AD 138-161)
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-FCC5D2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass sestertius of Commodus? (AD 175-192)
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-FD1221
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius or copper as of Titus? (AD 79-81)
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-FD30E1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius or copper as of Roman emperor, c.AD 50 – 250
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-27DEC1
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy fragment of a Middle Bronze Age axe, with flanged edges but no evidence of a stop-ridge. The axe is missing its blade and is corroded and starting to break up into layers, so that very little of the original detail remains. One of the flange tops seems to have folded in towards the face of the axe, but it is hard to make out whether this is through corrosion. The butt end is narrow, in 17.7 mm width and 13.9 mm in thickness, and the axe does not widen out much below the flanges, where it is 26 mm wide and 6.2 mm thick. In its present state, it resembles part of a ‘s…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.