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Record ID: CORN-6F52A3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead fabric weight, used for holding down the hem or a curtain or possibly a skirt. Flat and circular, with two central circular holes and an incised line about 1 mm in from the edge which runs within the circumference as a border. It has been bent since its loss.
Despite looking like a button, these weights were and are used to weigh down the hems of curtains, and perhaps also skirts. Examples can be seen on page 83 of Bailey's (2004) Buttons and Fasteners. They seem to come into use perhaps in the eighteenth century, and are still available to buy today.
Created on: Saturday 30th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 1st October 2015
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Record ID: CORN-1A9E34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Gilt copper alloy annular brooch, circular in plan, made of three coiled copper alloy wires that have then been gilded. The rectangular hinge that held the pin remains on the back of the brooch along with the base of the catch on the opposite side, but the pin is missing. From the gilt areas that remain, it is clear that the process used to gild the copper alloy wire, once it was coiled, was by electro-plating, which suggests that the brooch dates from a time after this was introduced around 1840. See NARC-068077 for a similar coiled copper-alloy brooch, which is dated from the Post-M…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2016
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Record ID: CORN-B92BB3
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A modern lead-alloy circular seal depicting two squirrels facing each other, each holding the top of a shield, dating to c. 1900-1950. There is a banner above and between them, a hand above the shield in benediction; the squirrels stand on a base. The scene refers to the arms of Kilmarnock. It is identical on both sides and the two circles have been folded onto each other to create the seal. This example is very worn.
It measures 11.1 mm in diameter, 1.9 mm in thickness, and weighs 1.7 g
This is a seal used by Johnnie Walker on whisky bottles or cases. Similar examples can be fo…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2017
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Record ID: CORN-B90C83
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A modern lead-alloy circular seal depicting two squirrels facing each other, each holding the top of a shield, dating to c. 1900-1950. There is a banner above and between them, a hand above the shield in benediction; the squirrels stand on a base. The scene refers to the arms of Kilmarnock. It is identical on both sides and the two circles have been folded onto each other to create the seal. This example is very worn.
It measures 13.2 mm in diameter, 2.1 mm in thickness, and weighs 3.16 g
This is a seal used by Johnnie Walker on whisky bottles or cases. Similar examples can be f…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2017
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Record ID: CORN-B8E477
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A modern lead-alloy circular seal depicting two squirrels facing each other, each holding the top of a shield, dating to c. 1900-1950. There is a banner above and between them, a hand above the shield in benediction; the squirrels stand on a base. The scene refers to the arms of Kilmarnock. It is identical on both sides and the two circles have been folded onto each other to create the seal. This example is very worn.
It measures 13.7 mm in diameter, 2.2 mm in thickness, and weighs 3.26 g
This is a seal used by Johnnie Walker on whisky bottles or cases. Similar examples can be f…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2017
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Record ID: CORN-9DE932
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring with seven settings for stones, including three large settings, aligned horizontally with the hoop, and four small settings surounding the central setting. Three of the four small stones remain intact, and appear to be colourless glass. One of the three large settings still retains its stone, which is facetted and looks to be possibly harder than glass as it is hardly worn, yet clear also with pitting inside. The central setting retains a layer of black enamel which may have been used to add depth to the missing stone above. The hoop is decorated with a moulded scroll…
Created on: Tuesday 18th August 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd September 2014
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This findspot is known as 'St. Just', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NARC-A0E684
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A MODERN IMITATION of a Late Saxon penny of Aethelstan produced by David Greenhalgh, aka Dave the Moneyer, aka Grunal Moneta. Note the characteristic use of his made-up moneyer's name Grunal on the reverse, and the date 95 for 1995. The coin's mass is unusually high for a coin of this type. cf penny of Aethelstan, North 686.
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CORN-FA0676
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt pendant with ornate cherub and foliage detail, and niello inlay, surrounding settings with five emeralds, three rubies, two citrine quartz, and an amethyst in the centre, with two settings missing their stones. The attachment loop at the top of the pendant has been damaged and is missing, and there are two small suspension loops at the bottom of the pendant, below each emerald, which would have had drop pendants attached, perhaps pendant pearls. 19th century German copy
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CORN-C0F685
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery fragment of a finial in the form of a bird head made of black basalt ware with a dark purply-black manganese glaze and a fine buff-coloured fabric throughout. There are similar examples of figurative bird heads on black basalt ware vessels, dating from the turn of the 18th century, like two examples illustrated in Morley-Fletcher & McIlroy (1984) on page 289, Nos.9 & 14.
Created on: Thursday 30th March 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-844051
Object type: ANIMAL REMAINS
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Bone fragment of an animal, probably fox, maxilla with three teeth intact.
Created on: Monday 27th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C67EB7
Object type: WATER PIPE (ARCHITECTURAL)
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a cast copper alloy (brass) pipe fitting that was used as part of a connection or valve to attach copper pipework together. The fitting is cylindrical in profile and semi-circular in section. The copper piping remains on the surface of the brass fitting and was lead soldered on to the brass which has caused a pattern of decay to emerge where the piping looks ribbed in profile. The edge of the pipe has been machine-made and the inner lip of the opening meets the body of the fitting where it thickens, but the edge is worn so that its full extent is unknown. Possibly used to …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Perranuthnoe', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CORN-90E423
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Aluminium copy of a Charles I sixpence, copying the silver shillings minted at Pontefract during 1648 and 1649, the so-called 'siege' pieces. Sixpences were never minted at Pontefract, but were at Scarborough in 1644-5 and Newark in 1646. However, these latter types are square or diamond-shaped in profile, not disc-shaped as in this case. This copy seems to have been stamped and then cut out as a disc, as it has an edge on the reverse that stands slightly proud of the surface of the coin but no edge on the obverse.
Created on: Sunday 20th February 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2016
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