Record ID: CORN-B93353
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast solid tin or tin alloy button with a slightly raised centre within a border of raised pellets. The back has the raised circular base, 2 mm in diameter, of an attachment loop and some iron staining around it suggesting that this might have been made of iron. But similar examples of tiny tin buttons, referenced below, have solid simple looped shanks that are circular in section and made of the same material in general. Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate a tin button with a border of raised pellets and the base of a solid circular shank on the bank on p.275, fig.178, no.1382, whi…
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-B6CFB0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy skillet foot, in the form of a plain hoof. The foot is ovate in plan, triangular in profile and lentoid in section with a tapering broken upper edge which suggests a thin leg for a small vessel. The upper edge is rough and bright green from the bronze disease, now active after recent damage, in contrast to the smooth dark green patina of the rest of the foot. The front of the foot has also been damaged but part of it has formed a skin suggesting it has been in the soil for some time since this edge was knocked off, while a section is light green where the edge has re…
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-AB7142
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy, double-loop, spectacle buckle. The buckle 30 mm wide, 26 mm long, 3 mm in thickness and 5.2 g in weight. The loops are D-shaped in plan and in section with bevelled inner edges. The strap bar is narrowed and trapezoidal in section, 2 mm in width, and recessed from the frame or inverted because the loops are slightly bent upwards. The pin is missing and there is no pin rest on the outer edges of the loops but there appears to be moulded foliate decoration on the edges that survive under the pitted corrosion product, where the upper layers of the frame have corroded…
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-A59719
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy, double-loop, spectacle buckle. The loops are D-shaped in plan and in section, with steeply bevelled inner edges, and the strap bar is flush with the frame and narrowed and trapezoidal in section, 1.8 mm in width. The pin is missing and there is very slight evidence of wear on one side of the bar. The surface l is fine-textured and smooth and the front of the buckle is largely coated with black lacquer; traces of lacquer also remain on the reverse side. Otherwise the buckle is completely plain, with no incised or moulded decoration. Spectacle buckles were in common…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-A58101
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy spectacle buckle. The buckle is 38 mm wide, 34 mm deep, 2.6 mm in thickness and 6.4 g in weight. The loops are D-shaped in plan and in section with steeply bevelled inner edges. Although the inner loops are of equal size the buckle is asymmetrically shaped, the outer edge of one frame being 5.5 mm wide whilst that on the opposite side is only 3.5 mm in width. The strap bar is flush with the frame and trapezoidal in section, 2.5 mm in width, but the pin is missing. There are pin rests grooved into the outer edges of the loops, which sit between two raised lobes whic…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-A539EE
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy ​dagger or sword scabbard chape, V-shaped in plan with a tapering end which terminates in a projecting knop. The back is hollow where it would have been mounted on to a leather scabbard, a fragment of which still remains inside the tapered end, and would once have had a back-plate which is now missing. The face of the chape is decorated by a central, longitudinal, linear rib, 2 mm wide, which would also have served to strengthen it. The chape has openwork decoration in the form of two pierced trefoil-headed crosses, 19 mm in length, one each side of the raised medi…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
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Record ID: CORN-A53357
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy barbarous radiate, probably of Tetricus I (AD 271-274), Reece period 14, produced after his reign c.AD 275-285, which looks like an attempt on the SALVS AVG reverse type depicting Salus feeding a snake in her arms, with the drapery arching downwards and the snake upwards on the right beside the skirt, or possibly the PAX AVG reverse type holding a vertical sceptre in the left hand with arm arching upwards and drapery arching downwards, as Cunetio 2987.
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-A52DB7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman nummus of Constans (AD 333-350), Reece period 17, GLORIA EXERCITVS // SARL reverse type depicting two helmeted soldiers facing, heads turned towards each other; each holds an inverted spear and rests on a shield; a standard between them with G on standard, mint of Arles, AD 341-342. Cf. RIC VIII, p.206, no.58
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-A52853
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy double tournois of Louis XIII (1610-1643) of France, dated to 1643 on the reverse, with a 'K' after the date to represent the Bordeaux mint.
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-A524E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper Double Tournois of Henri IV of France, (1589-1610), issued in the Principality of Dombes and dated to 1595 on the reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-269ED4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver half groat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixth issue (1582-1600), mintmark escallop (1584-86) with no rose or date, two pellets behind bust, Spink 2579.
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-268981
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn and clipped silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and fourth issues (1561-77) with date of 156? above shield on reverse. Small flan with inner beaded circle 17.5 mm diameter. Very large bust 3E, with rose behind head so issued between 1563 and 1565. Spink 2561B.
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-26783B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver groat of Henry VIII (1509-47), Second coinage (1526-44), mintmark arrow (1526-1544), London mint, Spink 2337E with Laker bust D, larger, squarer face with roman nose and fluffy hair; crown arch does not break inner circle.
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-941E61
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of Henry VIII (1509-1547), Second coinage (1526-1544) with the Canterbury mint mark of cross patonce (1526-1532) under Archbishop Warham with W to left and A to right of shield on reverse, Spink 2343.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-93FF1B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy double-loop or spectacle oval buckle frame which has a flat base and a convex profile with bevelled inner edges so that it is D-shaped in section. There is a moulded rosette knop on the outer edge of each loop. The strap bar is narrowed and flush with the rest of the frame with a lobed knop at either end. The pin is missing but there is a lump of iron oxide wrapped around the pin bar so it was made of iron. There are traces of black lacquer on the upper surface and the back of the frame suggesting it was lacquered all over originally. Whitehead (1996) i…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-93FBEA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double-loop buckle with trapezoidal frame. The buckle is 33 mm long and 22 mm wide and 2.4 mm thick. The frame has trefoil outer edges and small worn knops at each end of the strap bar which is bevelled and 3 mm wide but flush with the frame. The inner edges of both ends of the frame are vertical and the faces are decorated with an incised transverse line. The outer edges of the frame have central pointed knops with transverse grooves as pin rests and ovoid knops at the corners. The pin is missing. The upper face and back of the frame retain some patche…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-93F4DA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy appliqué figurative mount in the form of a reclining Medieval knight dressed in armour, hooded mail and a layered tunic. The figure is lying on his right side, resting his head on his bent right arm as he looks upwards. His left arm is also bent with his hand on his hip. His legs are crossed right over left at the ankles. He has a collar made of multiple oblique transverse grooves which represent the mail, and mouldings on his arms and legs for the joints in the armour. He also has a sash at the waist with three raised ribs on either side which gather in the ce…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-91A0C7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worked fragment of the body of a brass vessel with a high percentage of copper content (87.5%), and 11.2 % tin and 0.88 % lead. Judging from the curvature of the fragment, the vessel was probably 120-140 mm in diameter but the piece has been bent in one direction so absolute accuracy is difficult. The brass is not tarnished and the wall of the vessel is very thin, suggesting that it is post-industrial in date, and the area that it was found in has had a lot of local industrial activity. The piece was tested to prove that it was not gold and therefore not potential Treasure.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-7F0348
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post-medieval copper-alloy coin weight for a gold Unite of James I (1603-1625), Second coinage (1604-1619) which would normally weigh 155 grains or 10 grams, but has now lost its edges and some of its surface so is now 7.95g. The weight is almost square in plan, sides 12.5 mm by 13 mm and 3.3 mm thick. The obverse has an armoured half-length bust of the king facing right holding an oblique sceptre in his right hand with the inscription IR behind and below the sceptre and BRI in front of the head, all within a beaded circle. The reverse is very worn but has a crowned XXII wi…
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-7EF9B3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and Fourth issues (1561-1577), mintmark pheon (1561-1565), dated to 1562 on the reverse, with small bust 1F, rose and date, small flan with inner beaded circle 17 mm in diameter, Spink 2561.
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
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