Record ID: CORN-18442A
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small dark blue wound spherical glass bead with an off central perforation. The bead is slightly miss-shaped, due to the bead being held too long in heat during the manufacturing process. The bead would have been formed on an iron mandrel or rod, by melting glass until it flowed onto a rotated rod to form a disc. The bead is 10.8 mm in diameter, 7.5 mm in height with a the central perforation that varies from 2.8 mm to 3 mm in diameter, suggesting that the iron rod that it was made on was tapered. Irregular beads similar to this bead are common from the Iron Age, Roman and Early Med…
Created on: Wednesday 30th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-9CC225
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy oval setting containing an opaque blue glass intaglio, with a trace of a red border around the edge of intaglio and a bevelled edge to the copper alloy frame. The red material is probably setters wax, made of shellac and turpentine or resin, which was used to hold the glass intaglio within the frame. There is a trace of white substance on the edges of the frame of the intaglio, perhaps lead solder. The intaglio depicts a bust of a head facing right. The image appears to be a male head wearing a wig with layers of curls, that is tied at the back of the head, and wit…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: CORN-778DF6
Object type: BOTTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bottle seal fragment inscribed [Cove]ntry [Ho]use. Coventry House was the London residence of the Earls of Coventry, situated just off the Haymarket. A similar more complete bottle seal fragment has been found in the same parish, with the date 1709, along with one further example. In 1709, Coventry House was the property of Thomas, 2nd Earl Coventry. However, the Earl died the the following year and was suceeded by his son Thomas, 3rd Earl Coventry. Whilst Burton (2015, 534) suggests that a Coventry House seal dated 1702 may celebrate the birth of Thomas, the 2nd Earl's only son…
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2016
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