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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-268076
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged dolphin-type brooch, missing one wing and the hinge and pin, as well as the foot and catchplate. There is a small fragment of the copper alloy spindle visible within the tubular wing. Some of the surface of the wing remains on the outside and retains two sets of parallel transverse incised lines. The head of the brooch has a central raised moulded square which extends vertically down the bow into a lozenge-shape which tapers into a neck and then expands into a rounded terminal. The terminal appears zoomorphic because a chip has been broken off…
Created on: Thursday 15th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-38EC05
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius of Vespasian (AD 69-79) with upright radiate crown like BMC 527 but too worn to be more specific and reverse scratched and corroded so that half of surface has gone.
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 29th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-7F10E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass sestertius of a Roman emperor of the 2nd century AD, as it is reasonably square, suggesting it was made out of a strip, but too worn and incomplete to identify.
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2012
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Record ID: DEV-7124F1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible copper alloy Roman coin. The coin is very worn and difficult to identify, but it is possibly an as or dupondius of first or second century date.
Created on: Friday 6th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 13th February 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-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-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-4BF8A8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy buckle in the form of an 'S' with a stylised beast's head at each terminal. The head is a combination of a bird-like and serpent-like creature, with raised ears or a crest on the back of the head and a projecting upturned beak, with lentoid eyes and an open mouth with a defined linear tongue. The buckle is worn more on one side than the other but most of the moulded details can be discerned and are repeated on both sides of the frame. In the centre of the buckle frame is a tri-lobed moulded collar, which may represent a flower, flanked by a leaf with three pointed lo…
Created on: Saturday 17th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-0DB4D3
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy book clasp with expanded bifid terminal at one end and hook at the other. The clasp also retains its shorter rectangular back-plate, though it has broken in half, and its three rivets, holding the front and back plates together, around the leather strap, now missing. The upper face of the front plate is decorated with a longitudinal incised groove that runs from the indented end, between the two sections of the expanded terminal, to about the middle of the clasp where the surface is more corroded. The opposite end near the hook is decorated with two concentric circl…
Created on: Monday 26th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-C85006
Object type: DOOR FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy, likely brass, knob terminal from a door or drawer handle, circular in plan and semi-circular in profile. The fitting is in the form of a daisy with a central raised dome. The dome is defined and bordered by two concentric rings which are surrounded by twelve petals that form the flower. The back of the fitting has a raised circular setting with a central hole, about 5 mm in diameter, which has several ridges to take the securing bolt, now missing, that would have fixed the knob to the door or drawer.
Bailey (1993) illustrates similar examples on page 20, Nos.47 & …
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-C8C480
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy mount or escutcheon plate in the form a flower with a central raised roundel and four trefoil petals in a cross formation. One of the central petals in one of the four groups has broken away so that it is flush with the other two petals either side. This broken edge may have originally been extended to form an arm of a handle for a drawer or as a decorative mount on an item of furniture. The back of the mount has an open circular hole, which is about 6 mm in diameter, where the mount has been punched from behind to form the central roundel on the front. It does not …
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-C93882
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle pin with a drilled circular hole for the bar and an incised groove on both sides just below the loop where the pin then narrows and is recessed and tapers to a flattened point.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar incised and recessed pin on a shoe buckle on page 101, no.649, which is dated from c.1690-1720.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar incised pin on a shoe buckle on page 174, No.1150, which is dated from c.1720-1790.
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
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Record ID: CORN-C98581
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy dress hook fastener with the hook end having been bent straight and the loop end broken and missing. Two pointed projections are all that remain of the base of the attachment loop. The body of the fastener is circular in plan and domed in profile with a larger central raised pellet and six smaller pellets around it, representing a six-petalled flower, with six larger pellets alternating with these, as the larger petals, all within a border of smaller pellets.
Bailey (1992) illustrates a similar example on page 30, No.12, which is dated from the 16th cent…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2012
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Record ID: CORN-CA4A22
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy jews harp, with bevelled edges so that it is lozenge-shaped in section, which flattens out as the body extends into the tapering arms. At the apex of the loop there are two parallel grooves where the iron tongue would have been attached originally. This small lyre-shaped musical instrument was used by holding the frame between the teeth and striking the iron tongue with the fingers. They were used from the Medieval period right up to the 18th century, but the earlier ones are often forged iron, are decorated with punchwork or engraving, have 'barleytwist' loops, and …
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-F3AE48
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy spur with only one terminal remaining, the other side having been broken in antiquity. The sides of the spur have been bent outwards and the terminal has been bent back towards the side that it would have originally been in line with. The terminal is an enclosed sub-rectangle in profile and this type is often found paired with a circular terminal on the other side in Medieval examples, such as on iron prick spurs; but the style of the moulded neck and rowel box suggests that this spur dates from the Post-medieval period and so there would probably have bee…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-EBBDA2
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a small cauldron or skillet, triangular in plan, profile and section, with a large central mid-rib, flanked by a slightly narrower rib either side, and tapering from the triangular fragment of the body of the vessel at its upper end, to a pointed end at its foot. The back of the leg is flat and the end of the foot is worn, particularly on one side from use wear, so that it looks deliberately narrowed or pinched.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 96, no.596, which is dated from the 13th to the 17th century.
Butler & …
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
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Record ID: CORN-F0C156
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy rim fragment from a large bowl or cooking vessel with an internally bevelled rim that is semi-circular in section and flush with the upper edge of the vessel. The body of the vessel curves downwards slightly to suggest a reasonably deep straight-sided bowl or a deep straight-sided everted rim, as seen on cauldrons, and the curvature of the rim suggests a large diameter of about 320 mm. The bevelled rim itself is 4.7 mm thick which then tapers to the body which is 4 mm thick.
Egan (2005) illustrates a similar example of a bowl fragment with a flared rim and straight…
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
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Record ID: CORN-1AEFD1
Object type: BOWL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy bowl, from the base of the rim, following the curvature of the body of the bowl and tapering towards the base where it has broken away from the vessel. The curvature in profile shows that the bowl would not have been very deep, perhaps 120 mm in depth. The the curvature in plan suggests that the bowl would have been about 260 mm in diameter.
Egan (2005) illustrates a similar example of a bowl fragment with a curved body on page 99, Fig.85, No.443, which is dated from c.1550-1600.
Ottaway and Rogers (2002) list body fragments of thin cast cooking pot…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
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Record ID: CORN-7E6A42
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy two-piece domed button with soldered attachment loop. The face of the button is very worn and hard to make out but the back mark is clear: .FIRMIN & WESTALL. STRAND which operated in London from c.1794-1812. The letters within the seven-pointed star of the Order of the Garter, surmounted by a crown, appear to be D G which stands for Dragoon Guards, with an X above them which would stand for the 10th Regiment which became the Prince of Wales' Own Hussars in 1806. At this time the buttons depicted the Prince of Wales feathers so this button must pre-date 1806. The mott…
Created on: Monday 7th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 2012
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