Record ID: CORN-D84395
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dupondius or as of Faustina I (c.AD 105 -141), wife of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), dating from after her death in AD 141 to the end of her husband's reign in AD 161 (Reece period 7). AETERNITAS S C reverse type depicting Pietas standing left raising hand and holding box of incense. Mint of Rome. As RIC III, no. 1162. This is probably a 'Coin of British Association' struck at Rome only for use in Britain - see D. R. Walker 'The Roman Coins' from Bath, p. 298, no. 299 ff. 74 coins of this type were found at Bath.
Created on: Friday 29th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 25th April 2018
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Record ID: CORN-C53982
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy sestertius of Faustina I dating to the period AD 137 to 161 (Reece period 7). Unclear reverse type optimistically identified as AETERNITAS SC depicting Aeternitas standing left. Mint of Rome. cf. BMC 1501, RIC III, p. 162, no. 1105.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 30th January 2013
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Record ID: CORN-8E5F77
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast Russian lead cloth seal with the letters: *S P / C T. R H / *177 on one face and *A C* / KAPONI / II I O O* on the other face John Sullivan writes: DATED SIDE: 1. SP: probably stands for St Petersburg and occurs on 16 other seals in my records, all but one from Scotland. The single other one with SP is from Mistley not far from Colchester in Essex, even though it is held in Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds. 2. The date of 177? is likely as seals recovered with dates in the 1770s (91) are the more numerous than in the rest of the 18th century, with the exception of the 1790s (wh…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Saturday 10th November 2012
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Record ID: CORN-9CAC05
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy toy cannon, described as if it were a functioning cannon. The terminal of the breech end of the cannon has a rounded knop or cascabel button which has two incised circumferential lines and is 4 mm in diameter. The first base ring is 9 mm in diameter and is 3.4 mm from the first astragal (moulding encircling the barrel of the cannon), which is 7.5 mm in diameter, and on either side of the vent or touch hole, which is 1.5 mm in diameter. The circular base of a trunnion, 3 mm in diameter, remains on either side of the second astragal that is half way along th…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-9C6475
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy harness fitting with a large circular rivet in the hollowed back of the attachment terminal, which is tear-shaped in plan. The terminal narrows into a recessed section which is oval in plan, beyond which is a raised bifid border, looking like a sepal from the end of the stem of a flower. The handle then tapers to a straight-sided stem which is oval in section, and broken at the end so the the other terminal is missing. The back of the rivet is 15 mm in diameter, so it would have held something of some weight, but the strap that it was attached to could onl…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-91FFE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Stephen (1135-1154), Local Issue of the Civil War, c.1130s-1145, Southern variant with king wearing collar of pellets and cross moline on reverse with an annulet in the centre, Spink 1295, North 905. The reverse of the coin has been stamped off-centre and is worn all around the edge so that half of it is missing or illegible.
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-91D625
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bead, circular in plan and oval in profile, with a flattened top and bottom. The bead has been drilled once cast, so that it has a central perforation that is circular in plan and an hour-glass shape in profile. The initial aperture is 7 mm in diameter and then it narrows to the inner hole which is 4 mm in diameter. The surface of the bead is slightly pitted and damaged around the edge of the aperture but the general patina is a rich green colour and has survived well. Beads with similar plans and profiles have been recorded on this database as dating from the Iron…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Saturday 10th November 2012
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Record ID: CORN-91A7F8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slate spindle whorl, oval in plan and flat in profile, with parallel faces, a smooth flat edge, and a slightly off-centre perforation. The perforation is about 6 mm in diameter at the surface of each face, and has been drilled from each face, but has only just met in the middle, exposing a small hole about 0.6 mm in diameter. Both of the apertures are off-centre, suggesting that the whorl would not be quite balanced while used in the spinning process, and perhaps this is why the piece was never completed. Slate is commonly used in the county for spindle whorls as it is light and easy …
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2012
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Record ID: CORN-912B61
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead seal used for flour with the names HOSKEN & SON HAYLE. embossed on both faces. W. Hosken & Son was started by William Hosken of Carwin Farm, Phillack in 1852 when he commenced milling at Loggans, a mill still standing, bearing the date 1852 on its south gable. It became the largest milling firm in Hayle and in 1890 joined with Richard Trevithick, grandson of the famous innovator and a Truro based miller, J.S.Polkinghorne to form the partnership "Hosken, Trevithick and Polkinghorne", the initials of which "HTP" were to become a household word for flour throughout…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Saturday 27th April 2013
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Record ID: CORN-9E71F2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hollow composite button, circular in plan and spherical in profile, with a separate soldered backplate that has an attachment loop or shank that is circular in profile. Most of the original surface of the exterior of the button has corroded away, but it appears to have been undecorated. Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 77, Fig.9.330, which is dated from the 18th century.
Created on: Saturday 2nd June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2012
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Record ID: CORN-9E3594
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy small spectacle double-loop buckle with a narrowed and slightly recessed pin bar and internally bevelled and widened exterior edges to each loop. There is a linear grooved pin rest half way along the inner edge of one loop of the frame, but the pin is now missing. Where the dark green patina survives on the outer and inner surface of the frame, there are also traces of matt black lacquer which was used to protect the surface of the copper alloy (Whitehead, 1996, 8). Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similarly small example on page 53, No.297, which is dated from c.135…
Created on: Saturday 2nd June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2012
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Record ID: CORN-9E1974
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy mount, lozenge-shaped in plan with one trefoil knop survivng, and missing the opposite terminal, which was likely also a trefoil. There is one integral pointed lug on the back of the trefoil terminal and the other broken missing end would also have had another pointed lug. The extant lug is quite long at 10mm. The surface of the mount is quite corroded and pitted, but some foliate decoration can be made out on the trefoil terminal. There are also blackened areas which may be the remains of black lacquer or tinning. Read (2001) illustrates as similar exam…
Created on: Saturday 2nd June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2012
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Record ID: CORN-9DEBE8
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Nuremberg jetton, Lion of St. Mark type, anonymous issue, c.1500-1570, with fictitious legends that are worn and missing, but the obverse legend around lion might read BEONE... and the reverse legend OVENE... like an example in Mitchiner (1988) on page 361, No.1109 or ONEO...like No.1117 on page 363.
Created on: Saturday 2nd June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2012
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Record ID: CORN-9D9531
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy seal matrix, oval in plan and inscribed with a sun motif with radiating linear rays alternating with curvilinear lines of mirrored '?' shapes, all within an oval pelleted border. The handle is broken so that only the base remains which is recessed above a collar that is oblong in plan. The base is quite thin and rectangular in plan, but widens in profile, which suggests that it may have been an openwork trefoil handle like the examples below. This type of seal matrix with a flat oval face and a handle with a flattened trefoil that is made up of three perforated circl…
Created on: Saturday 2nd June 2012
Last updated: Sunday 10th June 2012
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Record ID: CORN-73B0C5
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Bent silver bodkin, with a collared tear-shaped terminal, which contains a circular perforation. About 8 mm along the bodkin from the pierced circle and collar, there is a rectangular eye slot. The rectangular slot is 10 mm long and 7 mm beyond the end of slot, there is an incised letter or mark of a squared-off 'C'. On the opposite end the bodkin is bent into a hook shape and the bodkin has been bent in three places along its length, including half way along the rectangular hole, where it is bent into a right angle, presumably since it was lost in the ground. These bodkins wer…
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Sunday 5th March 2023
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Record ID: CORN-E34863
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead trade weight with '1/4 Ib' in reverse at the centre and a stamp of a letter above, within two concentric rings, beyond which is a legend of letters, the maker's name or the company name, within a circular border, which are too worn to be made out, and in reverse, but perhaps 'Q R' in one section and 'O L V' in another. The weight of the object is 65.26 g which equates to 2.3 ounces. These weights were made by using a good bronze or iron weight (with a rim) as a mould, into which molten lead was poured. They generally date from the 19th century, when the lead weights so pro…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Record ID: CORN-E2FA13
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead cloth seal depicting, on the external face of one disc, the corner of a square shield with a madderbag, made of a central oval with a pellet at each corner, above an engrailed chevron, and bordered to the left by the letters LONDON which is surrounded by a border of pellets that continue until interrupted where the central part of the seal has torn away from the surrounding crescentic section. There may also be an 'M' above the shield which stood for 'madder' which is a plant that produces a red dye. This incomplete crest is part of the Arms of the London Dyer's Company (Ega…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-E2A968
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy trade weight from a stacking set, circular in plan with angled sides and a wide raised rim on the top. The recessed area within this raised border has a central incised circle surrounding a crown over the letters TRURO, which is a provincial mark that has been stamped over an earlier stamp, at about 9 o'clock, of a ewer, used in London until 1826 (Bailey, 2000, 42). Below the central stamp, at about 6 o'clock, is a square shield on its side with the sword of St Paul in the top left quarter. This was introduced in 1826 when new 'Imperial Standards' came into force (Ba…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Record ID: CORN-B79267
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast tin alloy hawking whistle, cylindrical in profile and circular in section, with two raised ribs which run around the circumference of the barrel of the whistle, on either side of the semi-circular sounding hole, which has since broken to form a larger aperture. The upper end of the whistle tapers towards the neck and then expands into a spherical suspension loop that has a drilled circular hole which would have taken the lanyard or cord to suspend the whistle. At the opposite end, the mouthpiece of the whistle is also broken so that it is open and the 'baffle' is loose…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: CORN-4EA550
Object type: DIE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast cubical lead die, square in plan, profile and section with impressed annulets or ring and dot motifs in groups of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on different sides: 1 is opposite 3, 2 is opposite 4, and 5 is opposite 6. The sides (or faces) of the die each have a circular recessed area within the four raised corners, and the holes for the numbers look stamped with a similar tool which has left a raised ring around the perforation. The medieval system, according to Ottaway & Rogers, 2002, page 2949, has the arrangement of 1opposite 2, 3 opposite 4, and 5 opposite 6, which was used from the 1…
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th May 2012
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