Record ID: CORN-45A890
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman silver radiate coin of Philip I (AD 244-249), dating to AD 248 (Reece Period 12), SAECVLARES AVGG // II reverse type depicting a she-wolf standing left suckling Romulus and Remus. Mint of Rome. RIC IV, pt 3, p. 70, no. 70 / pl. 6, no. 15. The coin has a cut mark across the face of the emperor which has not penetrated the thickness of the coin. It was issued in Rome in AD 248 to publicise the Secular Games which were part of the celebrations of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Rome (753 BC) in AD 248.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 1st March 2021
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Record ID: CORN-45144D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Anglo Saxon disc brooch, incomplete, missing its catch plate and pin, but otherwise in excellent condition. The brooch is circular, cut from a piece of flat metal, and decorated with an equal armed cross with a ring and dot in the centre of the cross and at the end of each arm. The quadrants formed by the angle of each two arms of the cross are outlined with an incised line, and each quadrant is in-filled with punched dots. On the back of the brooch there is a strip of shiny silvery metal across the centre line, which must represent a line of solder where the pin mechan…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 17th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-D0F5E5
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval French Moor's Head jetton. The obverse has a Moor's head with an inscription around the circumference and the reverse has a double stranded arcuate cross fleury around a central lis. This is one of a series of stock jetons which were struck for the Queens of France and her almonry (Mitchener, 1988, 157). They are dated from the 14th to the 15th century, and large numbers of them have been recovered from the river Thames in London. The inscription on the obverse reads AVE MARIA GRACIA P, and the reverse has A - VE - MA - RI, Mitchener 373.
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CE29D4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy rectangular bar mount with two integral pointed lugs on the back that are 2 mm in length. The mount is plano-convex in section with a flat back and a convex front face with a grooved border that is 1 mm in from the edge. Most of the original patina survives so there does not appear to be any more decoration. Read (2001) illustrates a small bar mount with two integral rivets on page 11, fig.7, no.70 ( which is 11 x 7 mm), and states that although mounts with integral rivets are generally dated from the 15th century to the 16th century, no.70 is 'plausibly c.1270 to…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CDD475
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Post-Medieval cast copper-alloy spur with just the figure-of-eight terminal a hooked mount suspended from it remaining. The mount is in the form of a cockle with two C-shaped arcs back to back which then fan out to a semi-circular terminal. The mount is slightly convex in profile with a hollowed back which has the trace of a rivet in the centre which would have attached it to the undersole of the boot. The hook passes through one aperture of the terminal of the spur which has two loops joined by a bridging section with a curved edge and concave underside, and an added ba…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2017
Last updated: Sunday 8th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-CCCE15
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy hooked clasp, used to fasten fabric together. The clasp has a flat back and moulded decoration in the form of a five petalled rose on the front face with a raised ring in the centre and a design representing stamens radiating out from the ring. At one end of the clasp, there is a trapezoidal loop which would have been sewn on to clothing. At one end of the clasp there is a broken circular attachment loop which would have also been sewn on to fabric, before the clasp extended into a hook, now missing. Read (2008) illustrates an example of a hooked clasp …
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
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Record ID: CORN-3C5C0B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy barbarous radiate of Tetricus I (AD 271-274), Reece period 13, with a clear radiate bearded bust with a pointed nose on the obverse but on the reverse a crude standing figure facing with legs apart, wearing a short tunic, holding a three-pronged trident or branch in the right hand, and a vertical object in the left, imitating the PRINC IVVENT reverse type depicting the Prince as Leader of Youth holding a three-armed branch in the right hand and vertical sceptre in left (Prince 4 in Cunetio). Cunetio 3021:3 of the Irregular Tetrici is the closest match to both obvers…
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-A92B03
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Helena, mother of Constantine (AD 324-341) dating from the period AD 337-340 (Reece period 17). PAX PVBLICA reverse type depicting Pax standing left holding a branch in the right hand and a transverse sceptre in the left, mint of Trier. A segment of the rim of the coin has broken off. Cf. RIC Vol.VIII, p.143, pl.1, no.63
Created on: Thursday 14th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2017
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