Record ID: CORN-7B1D85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silvered cast copper alloy Cornish Type 31 Aesica-variant brooch dating from the Roman period. The brooch is missing the terminals of the wings and of the side arms of the cruciform bow, as well as the pin and the curved hook of the catchplate on the back of the fantail foot, but most of the wings and the cruciform bow, still with its three bossed rivets, 4 mm in diameter, intact at the head, the centre of the cross and the base arm of the cross, survive. The tubular wings still hold the copper alloy axial bar, which can be seen in section at the end of wings where they hav…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Last updated: Saturday 2nd February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-7AAE36
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with ogival edges and a perforated knop at the apex with a suspension hole that is 2.5 mm in diameter. The front face of the pendant is decorated with raised oblique lines radiating from the centre to pointed terminals within the undulating edges. The style of radiating lines which do not appear to curve around the edges like serpents may be a crude representation of a zoomorphic style or a more anthropomorphic style seen on some of the stirrup strap mounts referenced below, where the ribs of a central human figure radiate outwards. Simpler patt…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 7th April 2019
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Record ID: CORN-506CA5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Post-Medieval mount with two integral lugs. The mount has damaged edges so that it looks more diamond shaped in plan but would have originally had a curved edge like the example referenced below. There are two incomplete rounded knops, one at either end of the mount. Both of these are decorated with oblique grooved lines from the edge of the knop, but the original surface is pitted and missing so the pattern is unclear. The back is slightly concave and at either end, behind each knop, there is a worn lug, 2.5 mm in diameter and now only 2 mm in length, whi…
Created on: Sunday 20th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 24th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-506475
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Post-Medieval mount with two integral lugs. The mount is sub-oval in shape with a rounded knop at either end. Both of these are decorated with oblique grooved lines forming a foliate pattern. The back is slightly concave and at either end, behind each knop, there is a worn lug, now only 3 mm in length, which would have extended to a point originally. Read (2001) illustrates a similar mount on p.36, fig.21, no.308, which is dated from the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 20th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 24th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-505A5F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt dating from the Post-medieval period c.1500-1600. The object is one of the three hooked mounts that would have been suspended from a larger mount riveted to a belt. The hooked mount has foliate decoration and a single hook which terminates in a spherical knop that is 5 mm in diameter. The attachment plate of the hook is leaf shaped with small foliate knops at either side just below the hook and at the other end there are two semi-circular cut outs which lead into two larger knops on either side of a pointed knop creating a trefoil termi…
Created on: Sunday 20th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0C707C
Object type: POINT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint flake, likely an unfinished projectile point. The flake is lenticular in plan, profile and section; it is 39.5 mm in length, 26.5 mm in width, 9 mm in thickness and 8.65 g in weight. The flake is a secondary flake of grey flint with pale grey inclusions, derived from a local beach pebble. There is a patch of grey cortex at the right margin of dorsal face and 13 mm along one edge from this patch is the point of percussion, at the proximal end, with the adjacent bulb of percussion visible on the ventral face. The poor quality of the flint has resulted in irregular fracturing to …
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 27th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0C6A9D
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint end scraper of the Bronze Age. The scraper is oval in plan, crescentic in profile, and plano-convex in cross-section; it is 37 mm in length, 33 mm in width, 14 mm in thickness and 16.36 g in weight. Made on a tertiary flake of fine-textured dark grey flint with pale grey inclusions, derived from a local beach pebble. The smooth ventral face is concave with slight traces of conchoidal rippling; the striking platform and bulb of percussion are missing. The dorsal face is scarred by the removal of several earlier flakes; the proximal end has been crushed and damaged by multiple p…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 27th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0C6342
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint end-scraper dating from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The scraper is U-shaped in plan, S-shaped in profile and plano-convex in cross-section; it is 76 mm in length, 52 mm in width, 18 mm thick and 73.25 g in weight. Made on a secondary flake of local beach grey-brown flint, mottled with small light grey inclusions, with two small patches of creamy-grey cortex remaining at the distal end. On the dorsal face are two large scars, from the removal of earlier flakes, which end abruptly 20 mm from the distal end where the angle of the surface of the original core cur…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 27th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0A497D
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later Neolithic petit tranchet arrowhead. The arrowhead is trapezoidal in plan and section and lenticular in profile and 24.5 mm in length, 21.5 mm in width, 5 mm in thickness and 2.9 g in weight. The arrowhead is made on the middle section of a blade from which both the proximal and distal ends have been snapped off. The conchoidal ripples on the ventral face of the original flake are visible, running at right angles to the main axis of the finished arrowhead. The broken distal and proximal ends of the dorsal face have been blunted with abrupt retouch. The pronounced medial ridge o…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0A2B65
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three semi-circular scrapers dating from the later Neolithic period or Early Bronze Age. All are sub-oval in plan and plano-convex in profile with diameters varying between 26 mm and 22 mm, and thickness between 6.5 mm and 8 mm; their individual weights are 6.3 g, 6 g and 4 g. The flint is a mottled grey-brown colour derived from local beach pebbles: one is a primary flake, with one face almost completely covered by cortex, one is a secondary flake with a very small patch pf cortex remaining at the distal end and the third is a tertiary flake with no cortex remaining. The bulb of perc…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-095656
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later Neolithic or Early Bronze Age flint end and side scraper. The scraper is sub-oval on plan and plano-convex in both profile and section it is 41.5 mm in length, 24 mm in width, 11.5 mm thick and 12.15 g in weight. The scraper is made on a secondary flake of partly translucent grey-brown flint which contains a large pale brown chert-like inclusion and probably derives from a local beach pebble; a patch pf sand-coloured cortex remains on its dorsal face. The bulb of percussion and large bulbar scar are clearly visible at the proximal end of the ventral face. On the dorsal side th…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0950AA
Object type: FABRICATOR
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fabricator of the late Neolithic period or Early Bronze Age. The fabricator is an elongated trapezium in plan and in profile and a shorter trapezoid in section; it is 59 mm in length, 21 mm in width, 8 mm in thickness and 11.6 g in weight. The fabricator is made on a long, secondary flake of fine-grained black flint, with only a very small area of sandy-coloured cortex remaining on the dorsal face, at the distal end. There is some mottling of a lighter grey colour on the ventral face towards the proximal end suggesting that the flint was derived from a local beach pebble. On the lon…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-094C06
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint micro-core. The core is 48 mm long, 41 mm in width, 34.5 mm in thickness and 86.35 g in weight. A spherical flint beach pebble of fine-grained black flint, perhaps from Beer Head in Devon, with a thin sandy-brown cortex has been shaped in several distinct patches by the removal of multiple very small, shallow flakes from various directions. The resulting core has four flattened faces with the unaltered rounded surfaces at opposite ends. At one end, and on one side surrounding the largest of the flaked areas, the cortex is pitted with many small points of percussion …
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-08E00E
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast and pierced lead spindle whorl, of Medieval or Post-Medieval date. It is sub-circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, measuring 43 mm in diameter, 13 mm in thickness or height and 100.25 g in weight (equivalent to 3.54 ounces avoirdupois). This is well above the normal weight for a spindle whorl, and might have been used as a wieght and been pierced for suspension. The central perforation is circular in plan and conical in profile, 10 mm in diameter at the upper, convex surface and widening to 13 mm at the lower surface. The weight is undecorated, the convex surface is une…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-08B6B8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A micaceous hornfels spindle whorl dating from the Iron Age to the Roman period. The whorl is sub-circular in plan, varying between 42 mm and 42.5 mm in diameter, and sub-rectangular in profile, varying between 6.5 mm and 9 mm in thickness, weight 27.75 g. The circular perforation is 6.5 mm in diameter and is distinctly off-centre, being at its closest 8 mm from the circumference and at its furthest 20.5 mm; the perforation appears to have been drilled from one side only, resulting in some slight splitting of the stone around its edges on the side where the drill emerged. Stone spindl…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0653DB
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A greenstone whetstone, ovate in plan, profile and section with all the edges rounded, and the surfaces generally smooth as it was made from a beach pebble. The dorsal and ventral faces are worn smooth and flat through use as a whetstone to sharpen metalwork. Both ends are worn and pitted through repeated percussion where the tool was also used as a hammer or pestle. The narrower proximal end has had the removal of a single flake from one edge but it looks as if it might be damage through use as a hammer. There are also several areas of damage which have been caused by agricultural ma…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-726A73
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The butt end of a broken Neolithic stone axehead. Although the end of the blade is missing the face of the axehead appears to be a narrow symmetrical ovate (FS02) with a thin asymmetrical profile (classification P04) and a narrow oval section (classification CS09). The butt end has been damaged by the removal, possibly deliberate, of at least one linear flake at the end but is rounded in plan and appears also to be rounded in profile (classification B11). The axe was broken in antiquity so that perhaps half of its original length, including the cutting edge, is missing. The axe was the…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-71FA0B
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. About a sixth of the original tool survives, the blade end, while the rest of the blade and the longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted is missing. The adze may have originally been about six times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle.The face of the implement appears to be oval in shape (TIP classification FS02) where it expands beyond the blade edge but would have then tapered towards the butt end, although its fragmentary nature makes it difficult t…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-71E176
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. The fragment represents less than half of the adze with the original length up to three times longer, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle attached to the opposite butt end.The adze appears to have straight parallel sides but it would have tapered towards the butt end (TIP classification FS07), an asymmetrical (plano-convex) profile of medium thickness (classification P05) and plano-convex in cross-section (classification CS16) with a curved, asymmetrical edge shape (ES05) and …
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-525230
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman initial, hinged T-shaped, South-western derivative brooch. The crossbar is mainly missing with just short sections of the tubular wings extending to a maximum of 8 mm from the head of the bow at the front of the brooch, with the back open to show where the spindle was once held and an empty cavity for the hinge and pin mechanism which is also missing. The bow is C-shaped in section with a hollow cavity at the back which extends almost to where the bow is broken. The head of the bow has a flattened section between the wings, and below that is quite co…
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
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