Record ID: CORN-95C188
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver radiate, probably of Gallienus (AD 260-268), Reece period 13, probably DIANAE CONS AVG reverse type depicting an antelope walking left. The coin is heavily corroded with very little silver wash remaining on the obverse. Cf. Cunetio, p.120, pl.14, no.1354.
Created on: Wednesday 14th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: CORN-D7FE61
Object type: SKILLET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment of a skillet handle. The handle is decorated on the upper face with raised opposing chevrons in a cross formation, within a raised and recessed border. Butler & Green (2003) illustrate a skillet handle with a similar pattern on page 145, no.151, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th January 2011
Last updated: Saturday 8th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-CD8766
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead suspension weight with a loop at the top for a hook.
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Record ID: CORN-F85A87
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy crotal bell with no decoration. There is a central raised rib which divides the upper and lower halves of the bell. On the upper half of the bell, there are two circular sound holes, each about 5 mm in diameter, on either side of the attachment platform for the suspension loop, which is mostly missing. On the lower half of the bell, there is a cruciform opening with 'dumbbell' ends, which each terminate in another circular hole, also 5 mm in diameter, just below the central rib. The metal ball clapper within the bell is missing. Bailey (1992) has a similar…
Created on: Friday 16th July 2010
Last updated: Saturday 17th July 2010
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Record ID: CORN-BE5E27
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bar mount with a domed central section decorated with moulded lines in the form of an acorn and lobed protrusions on either side which contain rivets. Egan and Pritchard (1991) illustrate similar examples on page 214, fig.134, nos.1160-1161, which are dated from c.1350-1400.
Created on: Sunday 5th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2015
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Record ID: CORN-0A3328
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double-loop or spectacle oval buckle frame which has a flat base and a convex profile. The strap bar is narrowed and flush with the rest of the frame. The pin is missing. There is a moulded fleuret knop on the outer edge of each loop. The sides of the frame are concave and there is a protrusion at either end of the strap bar. The pin is missing. There is some encrusted iron corrosion product on the surface of the pin bar and also at one edge on the floral projection, where the pin would have originally rested. The buckle frame is 48 mm long and 26 mm wide and 3 mm in…
Created on: Monday 26th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2011
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Record ID: CORN-0E5E95
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The frame has concave sides in plan and a flat base and a convex profile with a bevelled internal edge. The pin bar is recessed from the rest of the frame and still holds the pin and stud or anchor chape (the terminal is missing so it cannot be determined which one). At the back of the chape is a heart-shaped cartouche with the maker's mark within: H?P. This compares well to an example with the same mark illustrated in Whitehead (1996, p.99, No.616). At either end of the frame is a moulded p…
Created on: Monday 26th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2011
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Record ID: CORN-0F21C3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy single-looped D-shaped buckle frame with thickened and expanded outer edge which is hollowed and convex in profile. The upper face of the expanded frame has moulded concentric ridges, but the surface of the frame has gone as has any decoration with it. The pin bar is narrowed and worn in the centre where the pin would have once rotated around it. The pin is missing but was probably formed of a pointed piece of copper sheet folded around the pin bar, tapering towards the point of the pin. The buckle frame is 25 mm long and 17 mm wide and 1.5 mm in thickness. The bar…
Created on: Monday 26th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2011
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Record ID: CORN-D7ECF6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy one-piece buckle with integral box plate, waisted and sub-rectangular in plan with a mostly hollow rectangular section. At one end, the integral square box plate is almost complete, only missing its two rivets which have been torn away with the strap. The plate on the front of the box has a thin border (thickness: 3mm) around the terminal end and to the left and right. Within the square bordered area, there appear to be the letters 'd n' that are slightly raised from the surface in the angular gothic lettering style. There are small traces of gilt remai…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
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Record ID: CORN-CDD8F5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy single-looped oval buckle frame with straight-sided and expanded outer edge and an integral plate. The outer edge is very worn but has rounded edges which may have originally been lobes and a central ridge, where the pin would have rested. The pin is missing but would have probably been a wire example that would have looped through the hole nearest the buckle frame. The plate has a single knop on either side where it meets the buckle frame and three holes, for rivets and pins. The buckle frame is 19 mm long and 22 mm wide and 4 mm in thickness and the plate is 31 m…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2011
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Record ID: CORN-954DB5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast gilt copper alloy horse harness pendant, lozenge-shaped in plan with bifid knops on the each side and opposing circular knops below the suspension loop and at the terminal. These circular knops have hatched interiors and the side knops have the spiral terminals of tendrils running from the head knop and following the curve of the edge of the pendant. Below these tendrils is a stem which terminates in an elaborate leaf in almost a shield-shape with six pairs of parallel incised lines to define the veins. The tip of the leaf ends just above the terminal knop. Only the base of the s…
Created on: Saturday 15th October 2011
Last updated: Saturday 16th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-705307
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An arm of a copper-alloy dagger guard (quillon) of Medieval date (c.1200-1400). The fragment includes the whole of one arm and half of the central rectangular aperture where the dagger blade would have fitted. The other arm has broken off. The arm is circular in section and tapers in width from the central block and then expands to form a terminal which is circular in shape when viewed from the end. It appears that the arm is formed of a core wrapped around by a covering of sheet metal, with an open seam line visible on one face. It is very similar to another example on the database …
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A460DD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver threepence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and Fourth Issues (1561-1577), acorn mint mark (1573-1574) dated to 1573 on the reverse. Spink 2566
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FBDDEE
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Approximately half of a broken, unfinished sandstone mace head or perforated 'pebble hammer', of the Neolithic or Bronze Age, semi-circular in plan, sub-oval in profile and oval in section. Made from a greywacke sandstone beach cobble from the Crackington Formation dating from of the Upper Carboniferous age (332 to 290 million years BP). There is only minimal reshaping by pecking and grinding. The stone is mottled pale grey and pale brown in colour, with a single small iron carbonate stain on the dorsal surface. The shaft hole is unfinished, having been commenced on both the dorsal…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-67B5A1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-Medieval (c.1500-1650) cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame with a broken pin. This buckle frame is convex on the upper surface and flat on the rear. Each loop is 'D'-shaped and is similar in size but not symmetrical and internally bevelled at the front. The strap bar is triangular in cross section. The pin consists of flattened sheet copper alloy which is attached by being wrapped around the strap bar at it's base. The pin would have tapered to a point and probably extended to just beyond the end of loops although just over half of the pin is missing, havi…
Created on: Friday 3rd July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-087072
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy double-loop oval spectacle buckle frame, with moulded trefoil projections either side of the strap bar and moulded lozenge on the outer edge of the remaining rounded loop. Most of the other loop is missing beyond the strap bar. The pin is now missing. The surface of the buckle retains some evidence of tinning. What is left of the frame is 26.3 mm in length and 32.4 mm in width and 2.6mm in thickness. The strap bar is 12.2 mm in length, 2.4 mm in width and 2.8mm in thickness. The frame weighs 4.6 g. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle on page 6…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-096A01
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy spectacle or double-loop oval buckle frame that is plano-convex in section with a bevelled inner edge and a recessed pin bar with moulded knops at either end of the bar. The pin is now missing. The buckle frame is 31.8 mm long, 22.8 mm wide and 1.9 mm thick, and the pin bar is 22.2 mm long including the knops, 2 mm wide and 2 mm thick. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 54, no.308, which is dated from c.1500-1650.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-099446
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead cylindrical powder charger cap, with a flat oval lid with one of the two integral loops remaining at one side. The cap has been pressed from both sides so that the edges meet and the base is more ovate than it would have been originally. The lid has also been pierced and the subsequent pressing has resulted in a suboval piercing . The comparatively thin sides would have flared outwards towards the oval or circular mouth of the powder flask. The powder cap would have been part of a powder-charger or powder-holder, a small flask holding enough powder for a complete charge for …
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0A480A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman sprung T-shaped brooch which would have had two parts and is now missing its spring mechanism and pin. The pin would have been held in the catchplate at the back of the foot of the brooch, which are also missing. Between the two wings, at the head of the brooch, are the remains of the base of the loop or hook for the chord that extended from the spring. Below this corroded lump is a circular rivet hole, 2 mm in diameter, that passes through the body of the brooch but still holds the remains of an iron rivet that would have originally attached a mould…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-321FA3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy cup weight, round in plan and trapezoidal in profile, tapering from a diameter of 23 mm at the rim to a diameter of 18 mm at the base. The exterior and interior of the cup weight are incised with two fine parallel lines a little more than half way up the sides, that runs around the circumference and the interior diameter of the cup. The cup weighs 14.6 g which equates to just under half an ounce avoirdupois. The cup weight is a single example from a nested set of differing sizes and weights which were used to weigh gold and silver in the form of coin, small objects o…
Created on: Tuesday 18th August 2015
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2015
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