Record ID: CORN-B5BEE5
Object type: BIRD FEEDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead/tin alloy incomplete aviary or cage bird feed or water trough with flat bottom and flared top half with moulded band and rim. The body of the vessel has been indented and damaged and one side of the vessel is missing. Read (1988) illustrates and similar example on page 98, number 606, which is dated to the 15th century.
Created on: Monday 30th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-20E523
Object type: BIRD FEEDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead/tin alloy incomplete aviary or cage bird food or water trough with flat bottom, and flared top half with moulded band and rim. The body of the vessel has been pushed out by the finder after having been flattened in the soil, so that it is now semi-circular in plan. There is a small perforation in the middle of the back of the vessel, which was probably used to suspend the feeder within the cage. Read (1988) illustrates and similar example on page 98, number 606, which is dated to the 15th century.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-94C865
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy short skillet leg with four ribs on the outer face, which extend the length of the leg, and four ribs protruding from the inner face, which only extend half way up the leg. The end that would have been soldered onto the body of the vessel has been filed down on the outer edge and the opposite narrower end has been cut. This looks to have been used as a trial piece in order to test the mould for a more permanent copper alloy leg. Or it may have been used as some sort of repair, as lead is easier to work with, and has to be heated to a lesser degree, but it is difficult…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-CF56F8
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead shot, presumably linked to another lead shot with the rod of iron that protrudes out at a 90 angle from the surface of the sphere. The lead shot was cast around the iron rod in a mould, and the casting seam remains around the circumference of the sphere, from the iron rod outwards. The shot is 30 mm in diameter, and the rod is 14 mm long and 4 mm thick. Read (1988) illustrates some examples of lead shot on page 205, No.1435, which are dated to post 1769.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-484033
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead cloth seal, for a worsted cloth from Norwich, c.1650-1705. The seal presumably has NORWICH hidden in the folded disc (Geoff Egan pers comm). One side of the seal is embossed with letters: C B D S R I I I I The letters are the surname initials of the twelve Wardens of the Worsted Weavers Company of the city, listed in the order in which they swore to uphold the Company's regulations for the specific year, as recorded in the Mayor's Court Book (cf. Egan, 1994, pp.46-7, Nos. 81-5). The closest comparable seal is No.81, but this example has one of the few initi…
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-48DBA7
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead figurine of a female torso with a skirt and the beginnings of legs, but no arms or head. Some red paint remains on the torso and back of the figurine, suggesting that the dress might have been painted red originally. Registered on the back of the figurine to: J H 841882 REG'D ENGLAND This suggests that the patent was registered in 1882 and that the object is therefore Victorian or later. Bailey (2002) illustrates a lead toy in the form of a woman farm worker on page 64, Fig.13, which is dated to the 1950s.
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-2DDB04
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead alloy button decorated with eight moulded raised rays emanating from a central circular raised boss. The button is plano-convex in profile and almost circular in plan, with two triangular sections having been removed from one edge. Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 17, Fig.6.1, which is dated from the 14th to the 15th century.
Created on: Friday 20th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-2DE864
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast lead alloy ampulla in the form of a scallop shell. The fragment has a border at one end, where it would have connected to the neck of the ampulla, and is curved into a convex shape in profile, following the form of the body of the receptacle. Bailey (1997) illustrates a similar example on page 16, Fig.14, which is dated from the 13th to the 15th century.
Created on: Friday 20th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-CEA243
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead figurine of a naked man wearing only a cap, with enlarged genitalia, now damaged and not in its original position. Stylistically, the cap with a defined rim suggests that the figure is from the later Post-medieval period and could be some rough and ready representation perhaps of some figure of detestation in local society such as a rent collector or farm manager. It could even be a version of a 'shy-cock' figure to throw sticks at until it went over. It joins a growing number of one-off figures and heads that are turning up quite widely across the country and being recor…
Created on: Monday 27th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C3C672
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead seal matrix. The seal is vesica-shaped, a pointed oval, in plan and flat in profile. The obverse of the matrix contains a marginal incised inscription in Lombardic lettering which reads + S:ALIC:FIL':HOLY: which can be translated as 'the seal of Alice (?)FitzHolly' around a holly tree which is engraved in the central panel. On the reverse of the seal matrix is a central vertical rib which expands to form the remains of a hemispherical loop. This vesica shape is often used by ladies for their seal matrices. Similar lead vesica seals with the name 'ALIC..' are recorded on the …
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2009
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-88AF97
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead bag seal for guano fertiliser with the words in relief on the obverse: ANGLO CONTINENTAL LATE OHLENDORFF [...] WORKS and on the reverse: TRADE MARK with the image of a cornucopia between the two words. AngloContinental, originally Ohlendorff & Co., had been founded in 1873, and remained a German company until the First World War, when it was reconstituted under British control. It was taken over in 1937 by Fisons Ltd. and closed in 1946. The guano, which was bird or bat excrement, was brought over from Peru. This seal still shows the Ohlendorff name (LATE). Lat…
Created on: Sunday 22nd November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-A96EA4
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead bag seal for guano fertiliser with the words in relief on the obverse: ANGLO CONTINENTAL LATE OHLENDORFF [...] WORKS and on the reverse: TRADE MARK with the image of a cornucopia between the two words. Anglo-Continental, originally Ohlendorff & Co., had been founded in 1873, and remained a German company until the First World War, when it was reconstituted under British control. It was taken over in 1937 by Fisons Ltd. and closed in 1946. The guano, which was bird or bat excrement, was brought over from Peru. This seal still shows the Ohlendorff name (L…
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-AA9644
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead blank seal of the most common ‘modern’ type with one rectangular aperture on one side and two square apertures on the opposite side. These were for all sorts of goods such as seeds, manure, gas meters, Royal Mint money bags, goods for Customs etc. More likely to be 20th century than 19th century in date (Geoff Egan pers comm).
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-AABA25
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead weight, hexagonal in plan and rectangular in profile and section, perforated horizontally through the length of the weight for a fishing line. The hole is 2.6 mm in diameter. The casting seam remains running around the circumference of the weight.
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BB2A94
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast silver plated lead alloy mount with moulded rosette on central boss surrounded by raised concentric rings and a wreath of leaves on either side of a V-shaped motif. This motif has one central triangle with a 'V' either side which may form the base of the three Prince of Wales feathers that is commonly found on military mounts of this sort, but the decoration above is too worn to be sure. The back of the mount has a rectangular steel staple attached to it which would have taken a thick strap, so it was probably an officer's belt plate. The symbols on the mount, in this configurati…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 8th June 2010
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Record ID: CORN-1A8F82
Object type: PLATE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a stamped lead alloy plate impressed with annulets surrounded by larger raised circles. The pattern appears to be machine made and therefore modern. Probably another fragment of the same object as the next record, CORN-1A9C01.
Created on: Saturday 17th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 20th July 2010
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Record ID: CORN-1A9C01
Object type: PLATE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a stamped lead alloy plate impressed with annulets surrounded by larger raised circles and circles of pellets or petals. The pattern appears to be machine made and therefore modern. Probably another fragment of the same object as the previous record, CORN-1A8F82.
Created on: Saturday 17th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 20th July 2010
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Record ID: CORN-F2B186
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet pewter pilgrim's badge or souvenir in the form of five geese within a wattle enclosure, with four geese looking left and one looking right. The goose looking right has defined feathers and more detail on the head. This may have been the goose restored to life by the saint (see below). The wattle enclosure is bordered by two protruding knops, one at either edge, and divided by a central post, below the geese. The back of the badge has a rectangular attachment platform and the beginnings of an attachment loop at the centre. The badge is in good condition with little powdering o…
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2023
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Record ID: CORN-480864
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast pewter whistle in for the form of a hunting horn or pipe, beyond which is what appears to be a Medieval purse, defined by a border of pellets in relief. The horn or pipe expands into a circular recessed bowl with everted rim, and at the centre of the base of the bowl there is a small air hole, 1.5 mm in diameter. The other end of the horn has a circular aperture, 3 mm in diameter, which the user would have blown into, and the whistle is small enough that this end could be held between the teeth to allow both hands to be free. There are two intact iron rivets at the bac…
Created on: Monday 17th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tywardreath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-482963
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy fragment of a mount in the form of a horse's foreleg with a defined hoof, fetlock and knee-joint. At the top of the leg there are two raised transverse ridges on either side of a row of punched annulets which are meant to represent decorative harness, perhaps with studs, from the girth to the chest, like a martingale. This style of harness can be seen in Medieval depictions of horse harness such as drawings in the Mappa Mundi and Sir John Hawkwood illustrated in Clark (2004) on pages 26 & 62, Figs.18 & 46, and on pilgrim's badges illustrated in Spencer (1990) on pages …
Created on: Monday 17th January 2011
Last updated: Friday 21st January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tywardreath', grid reference and parish protected.