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-E33196
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with plain exterior band and inscribed on the interior with TOxLIGHTxTOxREQUIT in Roman capitals. In general Roman capitals began to be used for inscriptions on posy rings from the mid-16th century and were replaced by Italics by the second quarter of the 17th century (Oman 1974, 40-41). Posy rings were popular love tokens often used as betrothal or wedding rings. The message was inscribed on the inside, so that it remained secret to all but the wearer and the giver. This particular motto is found on a ring within the British Museum's collection and is also recorded by …
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Sunday 22nd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hayle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-DE5F35
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring, D-shaped in section, inscribed on the inside of the hoop with the words in seriffed italics that are a mixture of upper and lower case with each word apart from the last having a capital at the beginning: Lett Vertue Bee Yor guid There is a posy ring in the British Museum collection (AF.1322; Dalton 1912, no. 1241) with the inscription: Lett vertue be thy guide Another posy ring is recorded in DEV-7A936B with the same spelling of bee, but as part of the inscription Lett thy love bee as mine to thee, and with a similar script, featuring the same inwards curving "f…
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Liskeard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-157EAD
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet gold hollow annular bead, circular in plan and slightly biconical in profile, but crushed since deposition so that its original form is unclear. The central circular piercing is 4 mm in diameter and the edges of the sheet are open to the inner aperture, but would have originally met and have been forced open from subsequent damage. See HAMP-72E451​​​​​ (2011 T526) for a similar annular sheet gold bead with a shallow biconical profile, from Buriton, Hampshire, and ESS-E87773 (2005 T150) from Harlow, Essex (Treasure Annual Report 2005/6, p.17, no.6), which are both dated…
Created on: Tuesday 25th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gweek', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-6F8729
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring inscribed with: +A+FRENDS+GEFTE with retrograde 'N' in FRENDS in Roman capitals with no maker's mark. The letters look to be engraved once the hoop was drawn into a D-shaped strip and then the two ends were soldered together as the join can be seen in the gap between the 'E' at the end of the inscription and the 'A' at the beginning. The retrograde 'N' being reversed may have some significance in that it could suggest that the giver and the wearer were more than friends. Gold posy rings with similar inscriptions recorded in LANCUM-961357 (2003 T217) inscribed with …
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Last updated: Sunday 22nd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Week St. Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-508BAB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with with plain outer band and inscribed on the inside of the band with the letters in lower case italics to form the French words: anmie amour am.nom y adore The inscription may begin with two ** or similar and then mon amie amour. The first word looks like non but one of the minims is obliterated by the flash, so that it is in fact mon (Malcolm Jones pers com). The term 'posy', based on the French poésy or poetry, describes the amatory verse or rhyming motto with which the rings are engraved. These phrases suggest the dedication of the giver to the wearer of…
Created on: Saturday 15th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlyon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-3E886F
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gold ingot, rectangular in plan and rhomboidal in profile, and plano-convex in section. The ingot has been cast and then forged or hammered on two sides. The porosity seen in section at one end is created by the casting and then the ingot has been hit once it was cooled and this end section has cracked away. The opposite end has been sheared off with a blunt 'cold' chisel which has caused the end to expand slightly. So this piece may have come from a longer strip which was used and this fragment kept for future use or left to be melted down in a crucible. From the analys…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Just', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-AE219D
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gold ingot or strip, rectangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile, raised into a lip on both of the edges of each face. The raised edges are created when the sides are hammered to keep the them parallel and control the shape before forming the ingot into an armlet or band or ribbon ornament. Both ends are flattened and flanged and have been sheared off with a blunt 'cold' chisel which has caused the ends to expand. So this piece may have come from a longer strip which was used and this fragment kept for future use. A bracelet fragment with similar raised sides has b…
Created on: Wednesday 8th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Buryan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-1D6428
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold half noble of Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage (1351-1377), Pre-Treaty period (1351-1361), Series G, Cross 3 initial mark (1356-1361), Spink 1494.
Created on: Saturday 14th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bridport', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-5B1674
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gold finger ingot, plano-convex in plan, and trapezoidal in profile and section. The ingot has been cast and then forged or hammered. The porosity seen in section is created by the casting and the ingot has been hit once it was cooled and this end section has cracked away. A good comparison for this ingot fragment is the Welsh gold ingot published in Green, H.S., A late bronze age gold hoard from Llanarmon-yn-Ial, Clwyd, The Antiquaries Journal 63, 1983, 384-7, p.385, fig.13, no.4 (Brendan O'Connor pers comm) with a similarly rounded end and at the opposite terminal, …
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-442915
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold 400 reis (cruzado) of John V of Portugal (1706-1750), dated to 1719 on the reverse.
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-D4A789
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hoard of forty-three coins: thirteen gold staters, seventeen gold quarter staters, two silver units, one bronze stater, one bronze unit and nine Roman silver denarii. Dispersed hoard in eight groups: 1) one now complete Belgic 'Chute' gold stater in two pieces (ABC 746) one Belgic 'Hampshire Thunderbolt' gold quarter stater (ABC 767) one Dobunnic 'Sunburst Little Horse' gold quarter stater (ABC 2009) one Central Gallic Sequani 'Togirix' silver unit (ABC 100) 2) one Dobunnic 'Anted Rig' gold stater (ABC 2066) one Belgic 'Hampshire Thunderbolt' gold quarter stater (ABC…
Created on: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Last updated: Saturday 18th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-780ED1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring with a fragment of the sapphire stone still intact within the collet. The collet is rectangular in plan and trapezoidal in profile with sloping sides, that measure 3 mm long by 2 mm wide in the open bezel or rim, and expand to 6.5 mm long by 5 mm wide at the base of the collet. The stone appears to be sub-rectangular cabochon, polished but not faceted, and designed to fit in the upper aperture of the setting, but has since dropped to the bottom of the setting, once presumably the material holding it in place has decayed or corroded away. There is some damage to the ho…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crantock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-2DB6DA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold inscribed Iron Age stater of Verica (c.AD 10-40) of the Atrebates tribe, Verica Warrior Rex type with COM.F obverse; ABC 1190; Hobbs 1146-1153.
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-64CDC9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with an English inscription around the interior and the exterior of the hoop, and inscriptions on the both of the flattened edges of the hoop. The letters are in Roman capitals, with crosses between each word on the hoop and an 'x' between each word on the edges of the ring. The phrases are in four lines. The interior of the hoop has a cross pattee at the start of the inscription: + I + AM + YOUR + OVNE The exterior of the hoop follows with: + AND + WILL + BE + EVER One raised and flattened edge then has, after another cross pattee: + DEPART x WHEN x YOU …
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 15th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bodmin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-1CD338
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold Dobunnic G-type stater of their ruler Catti (c.AD 1 - 20) or Inamn (c.AD 1 - 20). The Dobunni were a tribe that lived in the counties of Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bristol and Avon. Van Arsdell, 1989, p.281, no.1130-1 Hobbs, 1996, p.170, pl.90, no.3058 Cottam, de Jersey, Rudd, and Sills, 2010, p.105, no.2057
Created on: Tuesday 29th December 2015
Last updated: Sunday 26th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-F7AEA0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with a plain band or hoop, D-shaped in section with a flat inner side. There is an incised inscription running around most of the inside of the hoop. It reads 'Constant am I untill I die ', and all the letters are in lower case italics, apart from an initial upper case letter 'C' of Constant and the upper case 'I'. The long 's' in 'ConStant' is more like an 'f '' and this style of 's' stopped being used in about 1780 (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/why-f-instead-of-s-in-old-fashioned-spellings). The inscription terminates in a stamped maker's mark 'J C' in Goth…
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sennen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-3756A7
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gold bar or ingot, sub-square in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section, that has been worked on an anvil and swaged down with a hammer to stretch it out to a thin fine edge on one side. The opposite edge that is parallel has been chiseled off to create a stepped edge and has been separated from another piece. The two other sides, which are more concave in plan, have also broken off a longer strip, may have cracked due to flaws still visible in the metal. There are swage marks on both faces of the fragment which also have cracks within them and evidence of delami…
Created on: Sunday 18th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sennen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-661BAD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with a plain band or hoop, D-shaped in section with a flat inner side. There is an incised inscription running around most of the inside of the hoop. It reads 'Christ and thee are all to mee ', and all the letters are in lower case italics, apart from an initial upper case letter 'C' of Christ. The long 's' in Christ is more like an 'f '' and this style of 's' stopped being used in about 1780 (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/why-f-instead-of-s-in-old-fashioned-spellings). The inscription terminates in a stamped maker's mark 'I D' in Roman capitals within a recta…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Just', grid reference and parish protected.