Record ID: CORN-E82001
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible quern fragment, likely from the base. It looks to be made from a pitted greenstone. Due to its findspot context, it is likely to be Iron Age in dating, although secure dating is impossible, given its fragmentary state, but it is likely to be of prehistoric-Iron Age dates. It still has evidence of a grinding surface, and the curvature around the edge of the grinding surface (where this surface meets the edge of the stone) suggests that when intact, the entire object was circular in shape. Using this curvature to estimate the overall diameter of the grinding surface, it wo…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-692C66
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper (lead)-alloy probable bead, of uncertain dating, but of probable Late Iron Age date, c.50 BC to 200 AD. The bead is cylindrical with three parallel circumferential raised rounded ridges divided by two narrowed waists. It is decorated with diagonal slashes on the outer two ridges and a series of interlocked loops on the central ridge.  The interior of the cylinder is flat and undecorated. The metal has a dark grey patina on the outside and a creamy brown patina on the inside. Measurements: Width, 7.40mm; Diameter (external), 14.48mm; Diamet…
Created on: Saturday 6th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2023
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Record ID: CORN-67513A
Object type: FOB
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy 'fob' or 'dangler' dating from the late Iron Age to early Roman period, (c 200BC-100AD). The object consists a suspension loop, a circular shank and one near complete and three incomplete arms in a spiral shape which form the base. The suspension loop is oval and measures 15.93mm in width with an internal diameter of 6.07mm. The shank is circular in plan, cylindrical in profile with a diameter of 6.86mm and has two bulbous collars where it meets the base and the suspension loop.  The fob base would possibly have been circular in plan…
Created on: Saturday 6th May 2023
Last updated: Saturday 6th May 2023
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Record ID: CORN-8F4E6D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and plated gold Iron Age quarter stater of the North Thames Region / Trinovantes, dating to the period c.80-50 BC, uninscribed Clacton/British G type. Obverse: 'Three men in a boat' design. Reverse: Disjointed horse right, numerous pellets around. Cf. ABC 2350; Hobbs, p. 55, no. 192. This coin appears to be plated, with a base metal core visible beneath a plated surface, presumably intended to be a copy of a gold quarter stater. 
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2023
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Record ID: CORN-CC8A01
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A monochrome blue wound glass bead of any undefined era. Similar glass beads have been produced since the early Iron Age to post medieaval periods.  The bead displays signs of wear on the sides suggesting it was worn with other beads or similar on cordage as the central perferation is worn on two sides. The bead appears to have been produced by winding molten glass around a mandrel or iron rod over a small furnace. The bead is slightly uneven suggesting a variation in the heat when produced, which is characteristic of hand made glass beads. Single coloured h…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: CORN-2B62B7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy one piece Iron Age - Early Roman brooch, possibly of La Tene or Roman Colchester derivative type dating to c. 400 - 150 AD.  The fragment consists of the spring with four coils and pin. The object has lost all diagnostic features and so it is difficult to suggest a type or derivation for the brooch. It has three spring coils the sit on one side of the pin. The whole object is made from one piece of metal. It measures 55.92mm in length and has a dark green patina.  See HAMP-C421B8 for a complete exampl…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2022
Last updated: Saturday 22nd October 2022
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Record ID: CORN-E459AD
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete annular blue glass bead dating from the Iron Age to early Medieval period c. 100 BC to AD 750 The glass contains small bubbles which is consistant with a handmade wound beads produced over a small furnace and wound on an iron mandrel. The perforation has been worn on one side suggesting the bead may have been worn on a cord or chain for a period of time. Single coloured handmade glass beads were popular during the Late Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval periods. Various blues are common through out the periods. Dating is impossible, as this is a su…
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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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-8D8D30
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age or Roman (c.300 BC-AD 410) wound translucent cobalt blue annular glass bead, with three eye decorations. Two of the eye decorations are of white glass with a central dot of yellow paste, and the third eye decoration is missing the central yellow dot as a result of the white glass separating from it or of subsequent damage. The glass contains bubbles which are consistent with handmade wound beads produced over a small furnace and wound on an iron mandrel. The bead is in an excellent condition overall. The perforation has been worn on one side suggesting it was…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 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.

Record ID: CORN-EA0B9E
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The remains of a late Iron Age sword with iron blade and cast copper alloy hilt guard still in place. The hilt guard is of Piggott's (1950) IVB 'Crown' type and of Stead's (2006, p.13, fig.8) Type viii and dates from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD. The hilt guard is oval in plan and both faces have an upper edge of convex arcs, producing the characteristic 'crown' form in profile, with a length of 75 mm, a width of 25 mm, a height of 20 mm and a thickness at the edge of one face of 3.25 mm. The lobes on each face of the hilt-end splay outwards. The bottom edge of the hilt gu…
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 26th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South East Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-234546
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy socketed sickle dating from the Early Iron Age, c.800-700 BC. The crescentic blade is 120 mm long, 35 mm wide and 2 mm thick and has a flat mid-rib on both faces defined by a pair of grooves that are 14 mm apart near the socket and taper to a point 12 mm in from the end of the blade. The outer edge of the sickle blade is thinner at 1 mm and sharper, though damaged, than the internal edge which is 1.5 mm thick, but the internal edge is usually considered to be the cutting edge on sickles so this would appear to be a double-bladed tool. The socket is at right angles to…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-116D51
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age silver unit of the Belgae tribe based around Hampshire, probably 'Hayling Stalk Lips' type, ABC 863 (David Holman pers comm), which dates from c.50-40 BC (Rudd, 2015, Issue 76, no.17).
Created on: Saturday 24th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 26th August 2019
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Record ID: CORN-BF4719
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourth addenda to the find previously reported under 2016 T19 and 2017 T501. The coins consist of half of a gold Iron Age stater from the Western British Iron Age coin producing area (traditionally associated with the tribe referred to as the Dobunni, issuing coins in Gloucestershire, Avon, Oxfordshire and surrounding counties). The rest of the Iron Age coins are gold quarter staters, including 10 of the same type from the Southern British Iron Age coin producing area (traditionally associated with the tribe referred to as the Belgae, issuing coins in Hampshire, West Sussex and n…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-E27859
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete upper stone of a rotary quern of coarse-grained greisen, dating from the late Iron Age to the Roman period. The quern is broken across its diameter, the remaining fragment representing about half of the original stone, being D-shaped in plan and plano-convex in section. There is a large fragment missing from the lower surface at one end of the break and a smaller fragment from the upper surface at the opposite end; the damage is mostly ancient although there are several smaller areas of recent plough damage. Allowing for the damage, the external diameter is approximately…
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-02F5E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age Dobunnic D-type Anted Rig gold stater of Anted (c.AD 20-43). The Dobunni were a tribe that lived in the counties of Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bristol and Avon. Van Arsdell, 1989, p.277, no.1069-1 Hobbs, 1996, p.168, pl.97, no.3027 Cottam, de Jersey, Rudd, and Sills, 2010, p.106, no.2066
Created on: Saturday 18th May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 26th May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-6217F4
Object type: BLOOM
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bloom of impure iron solidified on a flat surface to form the plano-convex profile and ovate section. The bloom is partly magnetic suggesting that it is not pure iron and therefore more likely Iron Age or Romano-British in date as in more recent times they would have hammered out the slag completely to purify the product (John Smith pers comm). A bloomery is a term used to refer to a furnace used to smelt iron from its oxides and the bloom is the product of that process and usually contains a mixture of fine iron particles, un-reacted iron oxide (ore), slag and charcoal residue. This …
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
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Record ID: CORN-14AEB7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sandstone bead, round in plan and sub-rectangular in profile with almost straight sides and a small central cylindrical perforation which is 6 mm in diameter. The diameter of the perforation and of the bead, at 23 mm, suggests that it was not wide enough to use as a spindle whorl and the perforation too narrow for a spindle, so its likely function was as a bead or pendant. The bead is pitted where inclusions have been eroded out of the basic fabric and there are still fragments of quartz and felspar visible. Threipland (1956) illustrates a stone bead-like spindle whorl, tall with s…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2019
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Record ID: CORN-111E0B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A spindle whorl of mica schist dating from the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.700 BC- AD 500). The whorl is circular in plan and rectangular in profile: 28 mm in diameter, 12 mm in height, 10 mm in thickness and 15.42 g in weight. The whorl has a circular perforation which is 9.5 mm in diameter and within 1 mm of the centre, ensuring that it would be well balanced when in use during the spinning process. The perforation is slightly hour-glass shaped, indicating that it was drilled from both sides, probably with a bow drill using a flint or metal tip. The schist is a pale pinky-g…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2019
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