Record ID: CORN-765634
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete weathered and altered gabbro axehead with what appears to be hornblende vein inclusions. The butt end of the axehead is formed and has survived and the blade end has been damaged through use and resharpened. The axe is also slightly waisted along its length showing wear from being bound to a wooden haft. Since deposition the axehead has been struck by the plough which has left several gashes to the surface on the ventral face, while the dorsal face remains unfinished and retains the original surface of the cobble that it was derived from. The face sh…
Created on: Thursday 9th July 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-88FDAB
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern silver bracelet terminal in the form of a moulded zoomorphic head incised with circular pupils within lentoid eyes surrounded by a banded pattern of parallel chevrons with transverse grooves creating a scale-like skin, with moulded vertical ears with a central groove, and a curled upper lip and snout and an open mouth. The underside of the mouth and jaw also has a pattern of transverse grooves with perpendicular parallel incised lines between them, giving the appearance of scaled skin. The slightly recessed broken end is not a socket but solid, suggesting that this is a termina…
Created on: Sunday 28th June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 23rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Hilary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-888714
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete coarse-grained gabbroic greenstone axehead which is a typical torpedo shape that is formed of the local Group I type rock (Mik Markham pers comm). The surface of the axehead is pitted where the gabbro has weathered and rotted out of the axehead from lying in groundwater since deposition. The axehead has been utilised and then disposed of. A flake (39 x 25 mm) has come off the ventral face of the blade end during use but the butt end is missing a section (26 x 12 mm) from the dorsal face which has been struck and has broken off since deposition. The face shape has taperi…
Created on: Sunday 28th June 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-DE8FCA
Object type: CLEAVER
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint bifacial cleaver made on a Levallois flake with a U-shaped (Wymer Type H) form in plan, and a lozenge-shaped profile with a straight edge (Wymer Type e), dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period. The cleaver has a straight transverse cutting edge at the distal end opposite to the curved butt end (Wymer Type b) at the proximal end which has partly been removed by an invasive flake, perhaps to remove the natural fault in the flint which remains as a patch of white cortex. The cleaver edge has been formed by the removal of tranchet flakes from the right lateral edge of the ventra…
Created on: Saturday 2nd May 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: CORN-B4E0E4
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone macehead or pebble hammer, oval in plan and in profile and section with a central perforation that is circular in plan and an hour-glass shape in profile. The macehead is made of white quartzite and was probably derived from a local beach cobble nearby. The implement was worked from the cobble, pecked and ground into shape, as it still retains evidence, in the form of little indentations on the surface, of the pecking process used in shaping. The central hole was then bored by using sand and a drill and the 'hour-glass' shape in profile suggests that the macehead was drilled fro…
Created on: Friday 1st May 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2BBC19
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hammer stone, ovate in plan, profile and section, 98 mm long, 75 mm wide and 48.5 mm in thickness or height, weighing 542.4 g. The hammer stone is made from a large beach pebble of hard, fine-textured dark grey stone with dark patches from organic staining. The ventral side of the pebble has been weathered to a pale grey colour where it has come into contact with plant material within its original deposit. The pebble is unmodified apart from an oval patch, approximately 50 mm long by 30 mm wide, at one end which has been flattened by multiple percussion events in its use as a hammer…
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2BB377
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two single-platform flint microcores, left with the scars of flake removals to produce microliths, dating from the Mesolithic period. One is 28.5 mm in length and 25.5 mm in width. The second is squatter than the first, 18 mm in length and 35 mm in width and retains a large patch of coarse cortex indicating that it was derived from a local beach pebble. The cores are coated with a creamy-white surface patina from exposure to hear and sunlight but would have originally been a darker grey in colour. Butler (2005) illustrates a group of Mesolithic, single-platform bladelet cores fr…
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-26179A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Trajan (AD 98-117), Reece period 5, S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S / C reverse type depicting standing central figure with legs together creating solid base like Spes in BMC Vol.III, p.171, pl.29, fig.7, no.810.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th May 2021
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Record ID: CORN-261346
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman Republican 'legionary' denarius of Mark Antony, dating to the period c.32-31 BC (Reece period 1). Obverse: ANT AVG above galley; III.VIR.R.P.C. below. Reverse: LEG / IIII on either side of an aquila (Legionary eagle) flanked by two standards. Possibly for Legio IV ('Legio Quarta Macedonica'). Travelling Mint. Cf. RRC no.554/16.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-260FF9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Uninscribed Iron Age silver unit of the Belgae tribe dating from c.50-20 BC, 'Hampshire Helmet' type, ABC 851.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Sunday 12th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-234147
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stater of South Western uninscribed 'Hod Hill' type minted by the Durotriges of Dorset and Somerset in the first century AD. British Museum Catalogue Type: 2810; ABC 2175; Van Arsdell Type: 1290-1, which is dated from 30 BC to AD 10, but current thinking now dates them from the first half of the 1st century AD. The style of these coins derive originally from Gallo-Belgic gold staters which were copying Greek gold staters in circulation at the time, with the head of Apollo on the obverse, and a horse and chariot on the reverse. The evolution of this coin's design…
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-22A383
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dupondius or as, probably of Nerva (AD 96-98), Reece period 5, with distinctive shape of head, profile and nose, but the reverse is worn smooth so unidentifiable.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-215C83
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dupondius, probably of Vespasian (AD 69-79), Reece period 4, with bald head, angled radiate crown and distinctive cut-away neck line, but the reverse with perhaps a seated figure is too corroded to make out the type.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-204116
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Trajan (AD 98-117), Reece period 5, dating from AD 104-111, S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI SC reverse type depicting Trajan bareheaded galloping on horseback with cloak floating behind him, brandishing javelin in right hand, with figure of Dacian unclear below the horse so may be in front of horse where coin is missing. Most of legends also missing. Mint of Rome. Cf. BMC III, p.177, pl.31, fig.5, no.841
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Sunday 12th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A592FC
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy mount, semi-circular in plan, decorated in high relief with Anglo-Saxon Style I motifs dating from the Early Medieval period, c.AD 470-600. The mount is gilded on the front face with a central boss in a semi-circular cell, which has corroded but appears to have enamel mixed in with the corrosion product. This D-shaped boss is imitating a gem setting seen on other more high-status mounts, but is surrounded by an overall chip-carved design of raised parallel, crescentic and scrolled lines surrounding crescentic and teardrop shapes. The design is based around the cent…
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A2B80D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy as of Domitian (AD 81-96), dating to AD 85-96 (Reece Period 4), FORTVNAE AVGVSTI S C reverse type depicting Fortuna standing left holding rudder and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome.
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: CORN-A290D2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy dupondius of Trajan (AD 98-117), Reece period 5, dating from AD 104-111, S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI SC reverse type depicting Victory, draped, stepping left, holding palm in left hand and with right erecting trophy left with helmet and oblong shield at base of trophy stand. Mint of Rome. Cf. BMC III, p.199, pl.36, fig.10, no.941 Cf. BMC III, p.199, pl.36, fig.10, no.941
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th May 2021
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Record ID: CORN-A21552
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy dupondius of Domitian (AD 81-96), Reece period 4, dating from AD 87, VIRTVTI AVGVSTI S C reverse type depicting Virtus standing right, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium. Mint of Rome. Cf. RIC II (2nd ed.), p.302, pl.151, no.540
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: CORN-68C636
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy flat axehead dating from the Migdale tradition of the Early Bronze Age, c.2200-2000 BC. The sides of the axehead look slightly raised on both faces but that is because the original surface, which has turned dark brown in colour, has only survived around the edges making it look crisper, and also on the blade above the slightly expanded but worn and rounded cutting edge. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal in plan, triangular in profile, tapering towards the cutting edge, and rectangular in section at the butt end. The blade narrows towards the damaged butt end,…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-8FCBF5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of thirty-three cast copper alloy axes mainly contained in one incomplete pottery vessel with four axes having been disturbed and removed from the upper section of the vessel and an additional casting jet found afterwards about 15 metres away that may be associated with the hoard. Report by Dot Bruns, Finds Liaison Officer for Lancashire and Cumbria in March 2005: Description 1. Socketed axe (SF 1), Sompting Type. Complete. Double mouth moulding with bulbous upper and thinner lower mouth moulding. Square mouth with rounded corners. Casting seams very thin and visi…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mylor', grid reference and parish protected.