Record ID: CORN-4506A8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tinned sheet copper alloy bar mount with central rosette, surrounded by a beaded circle, and bilobate ends in the form of two domed bosses. Similar mounts have been found attached to short leather straps which were probably used to pass over the instep of the foot to attach spurs to boots (Egan & Pritchard, 2002, p.215). Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate a similar example on page 218, Fig.136, No.1183, which is dated to c.1350-1400. Ottaway & Rogers (2002) illustrate similar examples from Medieval York on page 2906, Fig.1479, Nos.13373 & 14399, which …
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 1st June 2010
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Record ID: CORN-8FF5B6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a sheet copper alloy mount, flat in profile and section, and decorated with lines of punched annulets within a curvilinear, V-shaped border. The other fragment, also pictured here, was found with the decorated fragment and is the same thickness of 1.8 mm, so it may likely come from the same piece. This style of punched ornament can be found on other decorated mounts, illustrated in Read (2001) on page 36, Fig.21, No.320, and Read (1988) on page 148, No.997, which are dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-64A8B8
Object type: HANDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt sheet copper alloy fragment of the end of a handle with incised floral decoration with sprays emanating at oblique angles from a central fleuret along to the expanded and rounded terminal of the handle. Some gilding remains in the form of two triangles of gold foil, following the oblique lines of two of the sprays, within the rounded terminal. The decoration looks 17th-century in style, like that seen on buttons and hooked clasps and eyes of the time. Read (2005) illustrates similar examples of this style with fleurets and ring and dot sprays on 17th-century buttons on page…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-19A3D2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pressed sheet copper alloy mount with fragment of leather remaining from within frame and four small rivet holes which would have attached it to a leather shoe as a decorative piece, emulating earlier shoe buckles. The survival of the leather and the way that the mount has been machine made both suggest a Victorian date. Read (1988) illustrates a similar pressed open buckle on page 178, No.1206, which is dated to the 19th century.
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-0835D7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stamped copper alloy clothes fastener with three trefoil knops, one on each side of the fastener, and the third, now incomplete, at the opposite end to the edge of the attachment loop. The rest of the loop, or eyelet, with its rectangular aperture, is missing. The upper face is decorated with a central stem and flower head, with foliage either side, in the form of a serrated leaves, within a border of annulets. This is the eyelet half of a hook-and-eyelet dress fastener. Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 100, Fig.2.42, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Friday 28th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-F68E16
Object type: RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rolled copper alloy ring with stamped decoration and evidence on the inside of the ring where the terminals of the hoop were soldered together. The hoop is flat in section and about 3.3 mm in height. The decoration consists of a continuous band of oblique scrolls of annulets, in ascending diameters, which alternates with a recessed border of oblique lines, which are at right angles to the direction of scrolls. Bailey (1997) illustrates similar rolled copper alloy finger rings on page 25, Nos.8 & 11, which are dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Sunday 16th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-520645
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy transport token with five roundels counterstamped on the reverse of a halfpenny of George III (1760-1820), dated to 1799 on the reverse. "Counterstamping of bronze coinage was outlawed by the 1853 Coinage Act following the industrial scale of Edward Lloyd's newspaper advertisements in the late 1840s" (Edward Besly pers comm). So the coin would have been used before this time, c.1799-1853. The five roundels suggest that the token might have been used as a gaming piece, but as it was found with another George III penny (CORN-5055E0) counterstamped with the words 'TO D…
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-5055E0
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy transport token with the words: 'TO DOWNDERY' counterstamped on the reverse of a halfpenny of George III (1760-1820), dated to 1806 on the obverse. "Counterstamping of bronze coinage was outlawed by the 1853 Coinage Act following the industrial scale of Edward Lloyd's newspaper advertisements in the late 1840s" (Edward Besly pers comm). So the coin would have been used before this time, c.1806-1853. The place name probably refers to the Downderry that is not far from the findspot, in the parish of St. Stephen in Brannel, near St. Austell.
Created on: Tuesday 14th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-499201
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete folded gilt sheet copper alloy buckle plate with five rivet holes, one in the centre and two at either end, within the decorative borders. One of the holes has been torn open in the past, at the opposite end to where the buckle would be fixed to the hinge. There is an incised linear border running along the edge of the plate. There is also a semi-circular area of gilding at the hinge end of the plate, and a pattern around the rivet holes, but the plate is too worn and corroded to make it out. The hinge is made of two parts, allowing a slot for the pin to attach to the ce…
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-698586
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete sheet copper alloy clog or shoe clasp, waisted and double shield-shaped in plan, with a grooved border following the edge of the clasp. The clasp would have had a corresponding hasp with cut out sections to take the hooked part at the end. There are the faint remains of a stamped circle, at one end, enclosing a flower head, with foliage beneath the circle, spreading to the opposite end of the clasp. Bailey (1992) illustrates a similar example on page 17, No.43, which is dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Friday 11th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-690AD4
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy hook-plate from a book clasp, rectangular in plan and flat in section, with a flared front plate. These clasps were attached to leather straps fixed to the book and helped to hold it shut by hooking into a corresponding catch-piece on the other side. The end of the plate has a rivet hole, to attach the plate to a leather strap, which still retains its rivet. The opposite end is bent over to form a central hook, 5 mm wide, beyond a squared off terminal. The upper face of the hookplate is decorated with three rouletted borders, which run across the plate, perpendicular…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-CC4977
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy weight, rectangular in plan and profile and section with a faint central circular stamp of a rose and crown and another rectangular stamp with a number ending in 7 on the upper face. The stamps would suggest a coin weight but the shape and size of the weight suggest that it may be an apothecary weight instead. If it is a coin weight, then it would have come from the Low Countries (Paul Withers pers comm). It weighs 26 g which almost equates to one ounce averdupois.
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-A2A858
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pressed sheet copper alloy oval strap union and square plate, perhaps used as a book binding. The square cover plate has four rivets, two of which attach it to the folded trefoil fixing plate beneath, with a folded loop to hold the buckle. The other two rivets hold a narrow rectangular plate on the back of the cover plate. There are the remains of the leather strap, held by the rivets, between the front and both back plates. This suggests to the recorder that the object cannot be very old as organics do not survive well in the local acidic soil, unless preserved in anaerobic condition…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-EE9E25
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete hammered sheet copper alloy 'skep' (like a straw beehive) thimble, circular in plan and conical in profile. The thimble is punched with vertical, concentric and random small circular indentations above two incised lines around the base, as a border. The thimble has been damaged at its most weak spot, the plain, 'tonsure' (bald spot!) crown, where there is now a hole. Read (1988) illustrates two similar examples on page 76, Nos.429-430, which are dated to the 14th century.
Created on: Friday 24th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-EE75C2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete hammered sheet copper alloy 'skep' (like a straw beehive) thimble, circular in plan and conical in profile. The thimble is punched with vertical, concentric and random small circular indentations above two incised lines around the base, as a border. The thimble has been damaged at its most weak spot, the plain, 'tonsure' (bald spot!) crown, where there is now a hole. The size of this example suggests that it might have been used by a child. Read (1988) illustrates two similar examples on page 76, Nos.429-430, which are dated to the 14th century.
Created on: Friday 24th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-A4C386
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy one-piece child's thimble with flattish crown and narrow below rows of circular indentations that are alligned in continuous concentric rows. On the crown are square indentations alligned on a cross-hatched grid. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 192, No.1360, which is dated to c.1700-1750.
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-A43AA2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stamped copper alloy trade weight of Charles I (1625-1649) or Charles II (1660-1685). The weight is circular in plan and flat in section. The upper surface has a lipped rim, within which is a ring of turned parallel lines, from the die. The upper face of the weight is recessed and stamped with three motifs around a central rosette. At the 5 o’clock position there is an ewer, the Founders Company of London mark, which shows they have verified this weight. At the 11 o’clock position there is the royal cipher, a ‘C’ which is surmounted by a crown. The ‘C’ represents Charles I …
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-F5C9D7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast gilt copper alloy two-piece button, circular in plan and flat in section, with a circular disc surrounded by moulded openwork decoration in the form of fourteen domed annulets, each with a border of tiny pellets. The back of the button retains its circular loop which has been soldered on as a separate piece. The upper face of the button is very corroded but the back retains some of the original gilding just inside the edge of the circular plate. Bailey (2004) illustrates two similar examples, on page 71, Figs.9.248 & 9.249, which are both dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-EDB4F4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete sheet copper alloy clasp fastener, pressed with a pattern of foliage. The eye for the hook is broken and open and the side attachments are also incomplete, but the two loops, one on each side of the eye, are still intact. These loops would have allowed the fastener to be stitched onto the item of clothing. Bailey (2004) illustrates a very similar example with the same pattern of foliage on page 100, Fig.2.43, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 1st April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C36751
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy hookplate or hasp from a book clasp with two rivet holes at the opposite end to the hook. The end of the hookplate with the rivet holes to attach the plate to a leather strap is flared, so that it is trapezoidal in plan. The opposite end is bent over to form a single central flat hook, 20 mm wide, beyond a rectangular-shaped (in plan) terminal. The upper face of the hookplate is decorated with punched lines of chevrons that form an hour-glass pattern of two triangles in the centre of the plate, which are bordered by two incised lines in the form of a cross. There are…
Created on: Friday 30th March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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