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-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-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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