Record ID: CORN-F56702
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy two-piece, circular, hollow-domed button with moulded central fleuret with five petals, surrounded by another larger fleuret with five heart-shaped petals, all within a border of ten arcs. The back of the button is missing its loop but the base of the attachment remains where the loop would have been soldered on. Read (1988) illustrates an example with similar decoration on page 146, No.979, which is dated to the 17th century. But he also illustrates a bridle boss with a very similar pattern on page 180, No.1223, which is dated to the early 18th century. Bailey…
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-F5C9D7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast gilt copper alloy two-piece button, circular in plan and flat in section, with a circular disc surrounded by moulded openwork decoration in the form of fourteen domed annulets, each with a border of tiny pellets. The back of the button retains its circular loop which has been soldered on as a separate piece. The upper face of the button is very corroded but the back retains some of the original gilding just inside the edge of the circular plate. Bailey (2004) illustrates two similar examples, on page 71, Figs.9.248 & 9.249, which are both dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-1F13F5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a cauldron, with a pronounced central rib tapering to a worn 'hoof' foot with no collar. The foot is slightly flared in its width and rounded at its base. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate a similar example of Mid Wales Type on page 139, Fig.2, No.8, and another on page 166, Fig.1, which are both dated to the 16th century. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 95, No.591, which is dated from the 13th to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-1F8882
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy spur, semi-circular in section, with a short flat neck and rowel box, with the remains of the rowel held in place by an extant rivet. One of the arms remains with a single-loop rounded terminal with one attachment hole. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 157, No.1057, which is dated to the 17th century. Read (2001) illustrates a similar neck and rowel box on page 65, Fig.41, No.502, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-1FB907
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt hanger with two separate missing rivets. Inverted, the mount has a trefoil top, above the upper rivet, and two bifid projections on its body, the lower ones on either side of the lower rivet. The hook is zoomorphic, probably a swan's neck and head and there is a moulded pattern of foliage in relief on the outward face, but the surface is quite corroded. There is also residue remaining around the two rivet holes on both sides of the mount. The picture shows the mount inverted to how it would have been used, along with others, hooked onto…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
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Record ID: CORN-1FEE21
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton of Georg Schultes, master 1515, died January, 1559, his 'Lion of St. Mark' types recorded between 1551 and 1553, mint of Nuremberg, Mitchener 1303 The coin has been cleaned so that it is now a brass colour.
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-2ECC87
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy purse bar with an oval suspension loop, acorn-shaped neck terminal, and a central square-shaped block. The surface is corroded and more recently gashed so that no decoration can be seen. The central block is drilled and fitted with a swivelling oval loop which is lozenge-shaped in cross-section. There is a moulded, stylised, zoomorphic head to either side of the central block, gripping the side arms, which are circular in cross-section, in its mouth. The side arms are stepped or taper after a further 18 mm from the edge of these mouths to their present terminals. The…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: CORN-2FBD67
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a tinned cast copper alloy asymmetrical buckle frame with openwork decoration in the form of two square apertures and two B-shaped apertures, either side of a diamond-shaped moulding. There are also projections on the outside edge of the frame, in the form of four longer knops and four shorter ones, alternating at intervals. The frame tapers towards the central bar, now missing, which would have held a copper alloy plate and pin. The fragment was probably part of a trapezoidal double-looped buckle, used with a waist girdle, with more ornate openwork decoration on the oth…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-300934
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead weight, rectangular in plan and profile, and flat in section. It has been incised at one end with the letters 'M' and 'N' which might refer to someone's initials. The top face has also been incised with a single horizontal line down the middle of the weight. Small flat lead rectangular or square weights are often termed 'Apothecary weights' which were used from the 15th to the 17th centuries, once the mass of the English penny declined steeply and the current penny could no longer be used as a substitute for a weight, especially for sensitive purposes such as making medic…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-73EA53
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy French jetton, struck in Tournai c.1417-1497, probably after 1423 when Charles VII (1422-1461) introduced the silver Blanc à la coronelle (coin). The obverse compares well to Mitchener 624a and the reverse to Mitchener 626.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-744206
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Silver Republican legionary denarius of Mark Antony, c.32-31 BC, travelling mint, RRC 544/26 Stamped with an 'N' on the obverse which is a banker's mark. Were it an imperial or official countermark it would be a punched die (Sam Moorhead pers comm). This coin likely came in with the Roman army during the 1st century AD. However, Mark Antony denarii are known to have remained in circulation until the 3rd century AD.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-748DB3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Augustus (c.AD 161-180), Victory holding shield on trunk of palm tree with VIC PAR on shield, 2nd issue, c.AD 166; BMC 1290; RIC 934-5 This coin was struck to celebrate the Roman victory over the Parthian army in the East (note VIC PAR on the shield). The Romans even reached the Parthian capital Ctesiphon, in modern Iraq, which they sacked in AD 165. This coin is square in shape and would have come from a square blank clipped from a rectangular row of blanks, which was common way of producing sestertii in the 2nd century AD.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-B2A682
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axe head, missing its side loop, mouth and moulding. The mouth would have been sub-rectangular in plan. The surface is worn and pitted, especially along the casting seams, but there is a layer on one face that remains so that three ribs are still visible, between the side edges of the axe head. The ribs extend down about three quarters of the length of the body of the axe head, and the central rib is more pronounced and appears to be the longest. Half of the other face is missing, and has exposed the organic material still held within the axe. The…
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
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Record ID: CORN-B2D613
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast enamelled heraldic shield-shaped harness pendant with some of the blue enamel surviving so that the image of a lion rampant facing left is just visible. Both faces of the pendant are corroded so that much of the surfaces are missing, and part of the suspension loop is also missing. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 53, Fig.32, No.411, which is dated to the 14th century.
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B30096
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight depicting a ship on the obverse with a fleur de lis to the left of the mast and a lion passant to the right. The weight is uniface with the reverse blank, although some marks can be seen, possibly as a result of the flans being adjusted to weight by filing, or the weight having been struck on an anvil, or another flat surface which may have been patterned. The surface is too corroded to be sure. These coin weights were produced in Britain from the 15th to the 16th centuries to check the weight of the gold noble. Withers (1995) illustrates several examples…
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B31DC7
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Stamped incomplete silver book binding or bar mount in the shape of a sword, with a 'pommel' and 'hilt', in plan, and flat in profile. There are two tiny rivets inside the bifid 'hilt' section and an etched pair of initials 'L' 'I' with oblique lines filling in the interiors of the letters. These are incomplete and trimmed at either edge, suggesting that this piece might have been cut from a larger piece with more lettering on it. "If it is as late as I suspect, it is oddly unfinished in some aspects - the edges, the rivets - to be made of silver - presumably adapted from something …
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B34167
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Punched fragment of a pewter book hasp or clasp with moulded crosses alternating with groups of three pellets above individual pellets, arranged in different patterns, within a border made up of a line of square impressions. Read (1992) illustrates an example of a book clasp with a similar pattern on page 75, No.19, which is dated from the late 16th to the early 18th century. Bailey (2004) illustrates a button with a similar pattern on page 38, Fig.8.33, which is dated to the 17th century. Read (2004) illustrates another button with a similar pattern on page 39, No.132, which …
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B357D6
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead papal bulla of Pope Clement VI (1342-1352), with the name in relief CLE/MENS/PP VI on the reverse, a floret above and below. The small floret at the start of the text, and the reversed bar to the 'N' are characteristic of bullae of Clement VI. The obverse is very worn and only a few pellets remain that would have formed part of the border and surrounded the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, to the left and right of a cross in the centre. Bullae of Clement VI are relatively frequent and mark an upsurge in the use of papal documents about the time of the Black Death. …
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-673973
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy bow brooch with twisted wire extensions for wings and a circular rivet hole between the extensions, at the head of the brooch, possibly for a head stud. The pin is missing but part of the catchplate remains at the base of the bow. Camerton B Colchester derivative (Sally Worrell pers comm) 1st century AD (Dr. J.D. Hill pers comm) Olivier in Barrett et al. (2000), illustrates similar examples, with applied rivets, from Cadbury Castle, on page 140, Nos. 37-8, which date from c.AD 43-70 (Sally Worrell pers comm). Hattatt (2000) illustrates a similar C…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-712A32
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy finger ring, stirrup-shaped in profile, with a rectangular bezel with five sub-circular cells or settings for stones within it, consisting of four smaller settings around one larger central setting. What remains in the base of these settings is lead oxide which was used to hold the stones, now missing, in place. "The dividers between the individual stones look asymmetrical to the extent that they would seem to be catering for slightly irregular shaped natural gems in the Medieval tradition, rather than the precisely regularised, facetted gems of the Post…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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