Record ID: CORN-3033E6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd made of coarse admixture clay. The fabric has fine inclusions of pale felspars and mica, and additional larger inclusions such as quartz not natural to the clay to make it an admixture. The colour is mid-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd. This type of admixture fabric is seen in Bronze Age vessels, dating from c.2100-1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Created on: Friday 27th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-592A15
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd made of coarse admixture clay. The fabric has fine inclusions of pale felspars and mica, and additional larger inclusions such as quartz not natural to the clay to make it an admixture. The colour is mid-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd. This type of admixture fabric is seen in Bronze Age vessels, dating from c.2100-1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Created on: Sunday 29th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-576248
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd made of coarse admixture clay. The fabric has fine inclusions of pale felspars and mica, and additional larger inclusions such as quartz not natural to the clay to make it an admixture. The colour is mid-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd. This type of admixture fabric is seen in Bronze Age vessels, dating from c.2100-1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Created on: Sunday 29th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-3018E0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd made of admixture clay. The fabric has fine inclusions of pale felspars and mica, and additional inclusions such as quartz not natural to the clay to make it an admixture. The colour is mid-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd. This type of admixture fabric is seen in Bronze Age vessels, dating from c.2100-1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Created on: Friday 27th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7D9AC1
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a transverse arrowhead, translucent brown in colour, bi-facially retouched and expediently made. The cutting edge exhibits discontinuous edge retouch of low angle. The medial ridge has been worked and thinned to give a more distinctive and functional projectile form. There is extensive spalling on the ventral face. Butler (2005) illustrates a similar piece on p161, fig 67, 13.
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-BDB3C4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper penny token issued by John Williams III (1753-1841) of Scorrier House, Redruth which was bought by him in 1778 when he was running Scorrier Mine. The obverse of the coin depicts a pumping engine house, with brickwork on the chimney, and a winding machine with the inscription PAYABLE AT SCORRIER HOUSE upon a ribbon above the scene, and below it in four lines in exergue ONE POUND FOR 240 TOKENS IN 1812. The reverse depicts the Prince of Wales plume of three feathers with the motto ICH / DIEN on scrolls on either side, surrounded by a garter with the inscription CORNISH PENNY.…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C57923
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flake of fine translucent brown flint with grey inclusions. The distal end has been truncated straight. On the dorsal surface a scar runs from an opposite direction to the main removal. The divergent lateral margins have been completely retouched, even removing the striking platform. There is fine finish to make the edge unserrated. Butler(2005) illustrates a thumbnail scraper on page 166, fig 70, 1.
Created on: Sunday 22nd January 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: CORN-4C1432
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy open-top thimble or sewing ring flattened on one side so that it is now D-shaped in plan and rectangular in profile. The external face of the hoop has four irregular horizontal and concentric lines of large sub-square, almost circular indentations which vary in definition due to the level of corrosion. The flattened side is more worn and the rounded side more corroded with patches of bronze disease. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 76, No.436, which is dated from the 15th century.
Created on: Saturday 17th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
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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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Record ID: CORN-F13F72
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy sword blade, rectangular in plan and profile and lozenge-shaped in section. Both cutting edges are worn and incomplete and the perpendicular edges to these are broken so that the original length of the blade is unknown as well as the position of this fragment along it, though it is at the end that tapers towards the tip, as any raised area has flattened out in section. The smooth dark green patina survives better on one face of the blade than the other, which has an uneven surface of raised areas of corrosion product. The lozenge-shaped section of the…
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DE6478
Object type: STRIKE A LIGHT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded edged hard hammered fragment of nearly black nodular flint. It must have been used as a hammerstone or other heavy duty including grinding or a strike a light. Butler(2005) illustrates a modern flint knapper's kit including hammerstones on colour plate 6.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-0AF153
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap distributor with opposing strap loops, triangular in plan, with external recessed strap bars. At the centre of the distributor is a zoomorphic head, which looks like a bull, with two worn knops for horns on one side, two knops on the top of the head for eyes, and a snout beyond these on the other side, which has a worn edge but perhaps two indents for flared nostrils. On either side of the head are two scrolls with rounded terminals with a central larger upright knop between them, which is probably more decorative rather than figurative, representing four limbs…
Created on: Monday 26th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2015
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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-214B63
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy fragment of a collar from a socketed axe, semi-circular in plan, B-shaped in profile and in section. The collar is quite substantial at about 12 mm deep and 9 mm thick, and there is quite a deep indented area below it before the body of the axe begins with a raised ridge. Along this ridge at one side of the axe is the remains of the base of the side loop, which has worn into a point. The surface is pitted and some of the original patina remains on the collar but the projecting sections have become worn and corroded and there are patches of light green bronze disease.…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-60E6C4
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axehead with defined slightly raised collar and the remains of a sideloop below it, faceted edges to the sides of the axe and a flanged blade. The collar is incomplete but the side that survives is about 20 mm long and shows that it flanges outwards slightly and would have had a rolled edge. The two base sections of the side loop that remain at either end are cruciform in section and are now worn smooth. The blade is triangular in plan and profile and the socket is sub-rectangular in section. The casting seams on the sides of the axe have been file…
Created on: Sunday 18th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: CORN-438E35
Object type: SIEVE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete sheet copper alloy sieve or strainer, circular in plan with irregular circular punches or perforations roughly made from one face. The roundel has been irregularly cut out of sheet and its edge is uneven where sections have broken off or been torn away, leaving open perforations. The object has been hand-made and was perhaps used as part of a kitchen implement or as a drainage filter and looks to be Medieval in date. A similar example was found at Hellesvean, St Ives, excavated from houses dated from the 12th century (Preston-Jones & Rose, CAJ 25, 1986, 146). Egan (2005…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 2nd April 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-569172
Object type: SIDE SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A side variant scraper, light grey and cream in colour, which has been uni-facially retouched and expediently manufactured. The left margin exhibits discontinuous retouch with a semi-abrupt angle and is of edge extent. The retouch morphology of this margin is of sub-parallel type. Extensive cortex cover allows for comfortable handling although there is a small amount of spalling at the distal area. Extensive spalling is in evidence on the ventral face with the entire face exhibiting hairline fractures. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on p132, fig5.118, F19 which dates …
Created on: Sunday 29th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2D8BE5
Object type: SIDE SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A side variant scraper, grey in colour with a brown "eye", which has been uni-facially retouched and expediently manufactured. The right margin of the dorsal face exhibits continuous undercutting retouch with a semi-abrupt angle and is of edge extent. The retouch morphology is of sub-parallel type. Extensive cortex covering of the dorsal face aids in comfortable handling.
Created on: Friday 27th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EEC584
Object type: SIDE SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick triangular section flake of mottled cream and light grey pebble flint with rusty surface spots. The left margin is backed by cortex with a slight abraded notch in the mesal part of the margin. Opposite this in the right margin is a semi-abruptly worked scraper with use gloss on the dorsal surface.Mercer(1981) illustrates an edged flake as a side scraper on page 131, fig 57, L112.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A01901
Object type: SIDE SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick, hard hammer struck flint flake fragment of cream centre surrounded by a brown ring with tan flint beneath the pebble cortex. On the oblique facet meeting the ventral surface a scraper has been shallowly flaked and from a notch in its edge a patch of gloss has developed from use. Butler(2005) illustrates a side scraper on page 128, fig 52, 4.
Created on: Saturday 21st January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2012
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