Record ID: CORN-8B1008
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a tinned cast copper alloy buckle frame, annular or shuttle-shaped in plan with a drilled frame for a separate spindle to take the pin and chape. The hole for the spindle survives in the centre of the outer border of the frame, but the spindle, pin, chape and rest of the frame are all missing. The frame has an inner and outer border with an interlaced, openwork, floral design. The outer border has a row of single stamped annulets and the inner border is like a mask with two eyelets on either side of a central rosette. There is evidence of tinning on the upper surface of th…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2012
Last updated: Saturday 10th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-8AB047
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy ingot or 'cake', oval in plan, and almost triangular in profile and section, but with an uneven base from the solidified lumps of molten metal. The side and upper surface are smoother but still have circular pits. The molten copper alloy would have been poured into a mould with a slightly rounded base, echoing the curvature of the side and upper surface, and allowed to cool until it was solid. The undulating lower surface represents the formation of air pockets, with troughs beside where the molten metal would have run away. The colour, texture, shape a…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2012
Last updated: Saturday 10th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-8A70E5
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy ingot or 'cake', oval in plan, and almost plano-convex in profile and section, but with an uneven base from the solidified lumps of molten metal. The upper surface is smoother but still has many deep circular pits. The molten copper alloy would have been poured into a mould with a slightly rounded base, echoing the curvature of this upper surface, and allowed to cool until it was solid. The undulating lower surface represents the formation of air pockets, the largest one of which seems to have burst. The colour, texture, shape and formation of the ingot suggests that…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-7EEF93
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy leg from a small cauldron or large skillet, sub-triangular in plan and plano-convex in section. The attachment to the vessel body still remains, and the leg then tapers evenly to the foot which is worn to a rounded end. Three wide ridges remain on the outer face of the leg, varying in width, which terminate at the transverse collar which divides the leg from the foot. The foot would have originally also been ridged, but it is now so worn it has lost its claw-like terminal. The centre of the outer face of the foot still projects outwards, however, representing the arc…
Created on: Wednesday 7th March 2012
Last updated: Saturday 10th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-555115
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead pilgrim ampulla or holy water flask, almost rectangular in shape, with a short neck flattened closed to seal it. The ampulla is slightly waisted with angular loops, on either side at this point, to suspend the flask from a cord around the pilgrim's neck. It is decorated on one face with fleur de lis and lattice within a shield, surmounted by a two concentric circles with radiating lines between them. On the opposite face there are four fleurs de lis beneath an arch of lattice work which has triangles and crescents above it, perhaps part of a crown. These ampullae were bought…
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-546138
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead pilgrim ampulla or holy water flask with the neck bent forwards and almost folded closed to seal it. The ampulla is bag shaped with protrusions or lugs on either side of the neck which are the remains of the suspension loops, used to suspend the flask from a cord around the pilgrim's neck. It is decorated on one side with moulded ridges radiating from the centre to imitate a scallop shell. Beneath the shell there is a rectangular stand or box with an incised lattice pattern. The back of the ampulla has a circular stamp, following the curvature of the body, with a crescent wi…
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-50D1A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Aesica-variant brooch, likely another Cornish Type 31 (Bayley, Butcher & Tyacke, 2011), judging from the length of the crossbar, with long narrow wings, and the form of its junction with the bow, at the head where there is a perforation for a stud, and a circular plate bow with a central perforation, again missing its stud. There are two slight projections or knops on either side of the disc plate, which might have held studs, creating a cruciform shape typical of the Cornish Type 31, but the thin and flat plate is not typical of the type. The fantail foot…
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Sunday 11th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-4FF3A0
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy palstave or flanged axe blade, trapezoidal in plan, rhomboidal in profile and rectangular in section, at the broken end. The opposite blade end tapers to a rounded and damaged edge in profile. The blade is broad and incurved or inturned, instead of flanged, at the cutting edge and has the remains of what might be the tip of a moulded 'V' or shield at the broken end, but this is made more pronounced by corrosion, and it does not extend any further down the centre of the blade. On the opposite face there is a large cavity near the broken edge which was probably where a…
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-CBC0D4
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Nuremberg stock jetton of normal orb type with impersonal crown initial mark so an anonymous issue, c.1500-1550. Mitchiner 1262. The legends are fictitious. The obverse legend reads: BENO:VOB...and the reverse legend reads: NOVEI...
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 29th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-A59A41
Object type: TALLY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mining workers pay cheque token or tally with the words: PAY CHECK stamped in the legend around the number '7' on the obverse of the token. The reverse is blank and the token has been perforated for suspension. These tallies were used as part of a system for ensuring the correct pay by 'checking' in and out of the workplace prior to machines being produced for this specific purpose. 'Checks' were often 'holed' for hanging on boards. In mining, for example, a number on the check was personal to each miner and prior to going down the pit, the miner would give one of his tal…
Created on: Sunday 26th February 2012
Last updated: Sunday 26th February 2012
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