Record ID: CORN-92E2C1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast 'tombac' (zinc and copper alloy) two-piece button of plain design, with slightly rounded rim and raised soldered cone on the back from which the attachment loop protrudes. Bailey (2004) illustrates two plain examples on page 49, Fig.9.64, and on page 53, Fig.9.102, which are dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-933B66
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy circular jewellery mount with a central boss decorated with a flower with six pointed petals and surrounded by eleven smaller flowers with four round petals. All the flowers are also encircled by a ring of chains. Gerlach (1972) illustrates a number of items of jewellery which are made on the continent and date from the 18th to 19th century. Probably the closest in style is a mount for a brass belt buckle plate from Bulgaria on page 3, Plate 1, No.17, or belt mounts from Cilicia on page 88, Plate 34, No.1.
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-96B004
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman provincial coin, countermarked on reverse with bunch of grapes. Obverse too worn to make out original coin. Probably 1st -2nd century AD
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C65052
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead token or sub-discoidal button, slightly convex in section, with a flat reverse or back. The obverse or face has a seven-spoked wheel and central pellet, within a circular border, in relief, and the reverse or back has one line, but the surface is damaged. There is no evidence of an attachment loop for a button, but up to half of the object is missing. Bailey (2000) illustrates a similar token on page 14, fig.16, which is dated from the 17th century. Read (2005) illustrates a button with a similar design on page 83, no.344, which is dated from the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2005
Last updated: Sunday 24th January 2016
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Record ID: CORN-C67481
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy (latten) jetton of Charles VI of France, c.1385-1415 Mitchiner (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 181, No.474.
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-D5A723
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy spectacle or double-loop oval buckle frame with moulded decoration and part of one loop missing, half of it having been forced over and pressed onto the back of the other loop. The frame is flat-based and convex in section. The pin rest is formed by a transverse ridge flanked by two sets of moulded oblique ridges on either side. The pin bar is broken and the pin missing, and iron oxide corrosion products attached to the pin bar suggest that the pin was probably made of iron. The frame is also corroded so that its dimensions have been reduced. It is 19 mm ml…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-D67CE1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy spectacle or double-loop vesica-shaped buckle frame with part of one loop missing. The frame is flat-based and convex in section. The pin rest is formed by a slight transverse ridge, which does not extend to the edge of the point, protruding from the side of the loop. The strap bar is narrowed and has a protrusion at either end. The pin is missing, but would probably have been cast copper alloy. The frame is 55 mm mlong, 51.3 mm wide and 3.7 mm thick and the strap bar is 51.3 mm long and 5 mm thick. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on pag…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-D6C476
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy keyhole cover with globular body and pointed knop. There are two sets of moulded lines, one on the upper half of the body as it narrows towards the neck, and one on the lower half, as it narrows towards the knop. The top of the neck where the cover would have attached to the drawer or item of furniture has broken off and is missing. The cover is hollow backed and convex in section. Cuddeford (1994) illustrates a similar complete example on page 42, No.101, which is dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Friday 30th September 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-E86995
Object type: PLATE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead lid that has been reused as a punch plate, probably for leatherworking, as the lead has many impressions of identical circles, about 18 mm in diameter, which have come from the same punch, in order to produce leather discs. If the plate had been used to punch out metal discs, there would be more of an impression left in the lead (Martin Page pers comm). The circular punch used with this plate might have produced leather discs for horse harness or belts or holes for these items to be fitted through (Mike Glasson, pers comm).
Created on: Saturday 1st October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-042067
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint short end and side scraper, triangular in plan, flat and trapezoidal in profile and triangular in section. The distal end and right edge of the dorsal face are unimarginally reworked. Some of the cortex remains on the left edge of the dorsal face. The flint is slightly translucent and dark brown-grey in colour. The length to breadth ratio is about 3:2. Bond (2004) illustrates similar examples of end scrapers on page 56, Fig.5.22, No.L5; page 151, Fig.5.135, No.F112; and page 154, Fig.5.138, No.19, which are dated to the Early Bronze Age.
Created on: Sunday 2nd October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-421875
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold half noble of Henry VI, first reign (1422-1461), Annulet coinage (1422-1427), mint of London. Standard type 'B' with an annulet by the sword arm on the obverse and in one spandrel on the reverse. Obverse stops consist of trefoils with a lis after HENRIC. Reverse stops consist of annulets with a mullet after DOMINE.
Created on: Monday 17th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6C6E88
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy leg from a ewer, with a rounded section of the body of the ewer at the top end of the leg, which is 32 mm in diameter, and an extended foot at the other end, which is 26 mm long and 11 mm wide and 9 mm thick. The leg is L-shaped in profile and sub-triangular in section. The leg is 68 mm long, 21 mm wide and 21.8 mm thick. Lewis, Brownsword and Pitt (1987), in their paper on Medieval Bronze Tripod Ewers from Wales, in Medieval Archaeology Vol.XXXI, illustrate similar examples on page 85, Fig.2, Nos.2-5, which are dated to the 14th or early 15th century. Read (1988) …
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2005
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-6D3010
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy coin weight of a half laurel of James I (1603-1625), Third coinage, c.1619-1625
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6D7D34
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649)
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C06D41
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second Issue, c.1574-1578, mint of London
Created on: Sunday 23rd October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C09551
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy token of Thomas Corey in Marazion, dated 1668.
Created on: Sunday 23rd October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C0CDD2
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Nuremberg ‘Lion of St. Mark’ jetton, too worn to make out Master, but resembles anonymous issues dating from c.1500-1570.
Created on: Sunday 23rd October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C0F2C7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy double-loop sub-oval asymmetrical buckle frame with a separate strap and pin bar. Most of the oval main loop is missing, but the notched pin bar still retains the pin. The rectangular strap loop is also intact with its strap bar which runs parallel to the pin bar. The rectangular strap loop is 24.3 mm long, 11.3 mm wide and 2.5 mm thick and the pin bar is 19 mm long and 4 mm thick. The pin is 15.6 mm long and 3.7 mm wide and 2 mm thick. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 87, No.539, which is dated to c.1350-1450.
Created on: Sunday 23rd October 2005
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-C103D8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double-looped sub-annular shoe or knee buckle frame. The frame is flat and oval, with a simple central pin bar which is flush with the frame. The frame has a flat base and a convex profile in cross-section and a bevelled inside edge. The pin is missing, together with any plate or strap. The frame is 19.7 mm long and 16.9 mm wide and 2 mm thick and the pin bar is 9.6 mm long and 1.8 mm thick. Similar buckle frames are illustrated by Whitehead (1996) on page 48, No. 279 which is dated to c.1650-1720) and Read (1995) on page 143, no. 916, dated to c.1650-1700.
Created on: Sunday 23rd October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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