Record ID: CORN-D5E92B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post- medieval silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixth Issue (1582-1600), with two pellets behind the bust, mint mark crescent (1587-1589). Cf. Spink, 2008, p.238, no.2579
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-D54D63
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver halfgroat of Henry VII (1485-1509), Facing Bust Issue, minted by the King and Archbishop Morton jointly in Canterbury, Type III (b), mint mark tun (1495-99). The coin has been clipped so that it is missing parts of the legend but what survives has ornate lettering and rosette stops. Cf. Spink, 2008, p.203, no.2210
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-D4BCC2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver groat of Henry VIII (1509-1547), Second coinage (1526-1544), Laker Bust D with larger squarer face with roman nose, fluffy hair, crown arch does not break inner circle with Lombardic lettering but mint mark missing on both obverse and reverse. Cf. Spink, 2008, p.212, no.2337E
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
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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-44160E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring, probably Roman in date, consisting of a flat strip of metal bent into a penannular ring with both terminals narrowing to a point and overlapping slightly. The pointed ends suggest this could have been used as an earring, but they may also simply be narrowed to fit together when worn on the finger and penannular to allow for expansion. The ring may also been made from a broken fragment of a bracelet which are often penannular in the Roman period. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with three horizontal concentric grooves which converge towards the ends …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 17th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-41ECEB
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cast copper alloy strap mount in the form of an elongated heart shape, dating from the 17th century. The upper surface of the mount is flat, undecorated with bevelled edges.On the reverse are two short integral pointed lugs, bent in opposite directions, both with the tips broken off. The pointed end of the heart shape is slightly abraded.The back of the mount is flat and the surface has a dark green patina. A very similar mount can be seen on the database at WREX-049DF7 which is dated from the 17th century. Read (2016) illustrates a similar mount on page 42, no.322 wh…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 17th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-419779
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Diocletian (AD 284-305), Reece period 15, GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse type depicting Genius standing left, modius on head, chalmys over left shoulder, holding patera in right hand and cornucopiae in left. The mintmark is missing in exergue on the reverse and this combination of obverse and reverse was minted in Aquileia, Lyons, Rome and Trier between AD 294 and 303. Cf. RIC VI, p.179, no.141a.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-89325C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy trade farthing token issued by Richard Groves of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The obverse shows the figure of a wild man holding a tall staff in the right hand surrounded by foliage (Williamson describes this as a wild man in a grove) with the name RICHARD GROVES and date of 1665, which is very worn, around the edge. The reverse inscription should read OF.CHIPPING.NORTON (illegible) around the letters G. / R.E. in two lines which can just be made out. The date given by Williamson for his example is 1659 (Williamson Vol II, via Seaby 1967, p.927, no.68) but another exampl…
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 20th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-88C342
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy stud or mount in the shape of an eight pointed star with a slightly raised roundel in the centre and two integral lugs, 8 mm in length, at the back for attachment to a leather strap. The spikes are pointed and bent outwards at the tip and appear to be complete. Read (2001) on p.38, no.338 illustrates a similar example which is dated from the 17th century. The database has a similar example SUSS-24C8A3.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 20th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-885E95
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy single-looped D-shaped buckle with two lobed knops at either end of a plain straight cylindrical bar and the remains of a metal buckle plate still attached to the strap bar which is offset and narrowed. The rest of the plate and the pin are missing and there are no grooves on the cylindrical bar for a pin rest. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle on p.22, no.86, which is dated from c.1250-1400.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 20th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-86A873
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman base silver radiate of Claudius II (AD 268-270), Reece Period 13, SPES PVBLICA reverse type depicting Spes (Hope) advancing left holding flower in right hand and skirt in left. The mint mark is P for Milan (Mediolanum) and the form of the radiate crown, with horizontal radiate spikes at the back of his head, is paralleled on coins struck at Milan, illustrated in Moorhead (2013) A History of Roman Coinage in Britain, on p.131, fig.25, recorded in SUR-815394 as Cunetio 2240. The type is illustrated in the Cunetio catalogue (1983), in plate 22, no.2242.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 20th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-85CDD5
Object type: HARNESS RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy annular ring, circular in plan and in section. The database has many examples of bronze rings of this size, and the consensus seems to be that they are harness fittings, probably strap junction fittings. ​One example, BM-6EEF3D, although incomplete and corroded, is the same size and was found with Iron Age and Roman pottery, metalwork and coins, and is dated from 50 BC to AD 100. Another complete example from Dorset DOR-E9EE18 is almost identical in size, weight and material. This ring is well patinated and shows slight signs of wear, where one side of the ring is …
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 20th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F5840A
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy regal stock jetton of Louis XIV of France (1643-1715) with French inscriptions, so not a Nuremberg copy. The obverse reads [LOVIS.XIV.RO]Y.DE.FR.ET.DE.NAV, dating from 1679-1680. The reverse legend has the letters CENTES which may be part of the reverse legend FACIENTES IVVAT (Mitchiner, 1991, p.1064, no.1664a), but this is associated with a different obverse legend. The reverse follows the format with several lines in exergue like the jettons referred to below, but the legend does not match any of this type. A third of the jetton is missing, and there is an incomplete ci…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F4EE84
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular tin alloy (pewter) mount or ferrule consisting of a rectangular strip soldered into a ring, decorated on the outer face with a line of lozenges or diamond shapes forming a band between parallel raised borders around the circumference of the ring. The decoration has been formed by pressing the strip against a pattern while rolling it through a mill. The ring is flat in section and is likely a mount from a utensil of some kind, for example, covering the junction between a handle and a knife blade. The style and manufacture suggests a Post-medieval date. A similar mount can b…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F3BB63
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the stem from a pewter or lead alloy spoon, rectangular in plan with one pointed and one flat end, both sheared off leaving raised edges. The upper face of the stem is decorated with a rouletted design of a circle with a dot in the centre above further rouletted curved lines and circles, which are incomplete because of the broken the edges. So this may have been towards the trefid terminal of the spoon stem where it expanded into a trefoil so that the leaves and other flowers would have been complete.There are similar rosettes rouletted onto 'dog-nose' (similar terminals) …
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F326D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged T-shaped, South-western derivative brooch. One arm of the brooch is missing but the other is complete; a straight cylindrical tube holding the copper alloy axial bar for the hinge and with a bulbous end. There is an engraved line around the circumference of the arm 3 mm in from bulbous end. The brooch is quite heavily made, and the lower part of the brooch and most of the hinged pin mechanism is missing, except for a fragment of the iron hinge in the slot behind the head of the brooch. The bow, which is wide and flat at the top, narrowing towa…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Sunday 28th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F252BD
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy scabbard hook decorated with a groove in the shape of an S at the widest section of the body. The lower terminal of the hook has been bent over at right angles to the main body but would have originally been straight. The top of the hook is broken where it attached to the scabbard. The hook is made of a strip of metal, narrower at the top and bottom curving out to a wider section in the middle. There is a collar above the middle section and the foot of the hook ends in a small rounded knop with a collar above it. The back of the hook is mostly flat with a slight conc…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 27th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F1EEDC
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy ingot which would have originally been circular in plan and plano-convex in profile. This fragment is square in plan, triangular in profile, and rectangular in section, as it comes from one edge of the original ingot. Plano-convex ingots like this one were used during the Late Bronze Age, c.1150-700 BC. The surface of the ingot is pitted where air bubbles formed during the casting process. There are dark green and coppery brown areas and light green patches of bronze disease. Similar ingot fragments have been found in metalworkers' hoards in Cornwall da…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-3A0B51
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver hammered long cross penny of Edward II (1307-27), Class 10cf3 (1307-1309) with letters 'A' and 'N' with exaggerated serifs (Wood, 1989, p.44). The coin is very worn, but the letter N in ANGL on the obverse appears directly below the point where the two wedges of the drapery meet at the base of the neck, a feature which only appears from the issue of Class 10 onwards. The central fleur of the crown is also very tall, which suggests Class 10cf3 (Withers, 2006, p.36, crown 3).
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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