Record ID: CORN-91B67C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead suspension weight dating from the Post-medieval period, c.1600-1800. The weight is sub circular in plan and plano-convex in section; between 37 mm and 39.5 mm in diameter, 14 mm in height and 93.7 g in weight (3.3 oz). One face is flat and is scarred by numerous linear incisions where it has been trimmed. The opposite surface is domed and pitted from the original, crude casting process and with at least five later, short linear gouge marks. A suspension hole, circular in plan, 5.5 mm in diameter, and cylindrical in profile, 12 mm long, has been drilled through the weight; …
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-91B289
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead pyramidal suspension weight dating from the Post-medieval period. The weight is sub rectangular in section, 33.5 mm tall, 15 mm x 12 mm at its base, narrowing to 11.5 mm x 4.5 mm at the top and with a weight of 38.1 g. (1.34 oz). The weight is pierced by a circular hole, 2 mm in diameter, close to the top. Its base is flat so that it could also be used as a standing weight and the base is deeply incised with a large letter V. The weight does not appear to correspond with any standard measurement in either the averdepois or troy systems, so the incised mark has no apparent me…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-91A7A1
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead Post-medieval cloth seal dating from c.1500-1650. The seal is disc-shaped, 17.5 mm in diameter and 1.5 mm in thickness, with damaged integral rivet, 7.5 mm in diameter and 1 mm in thickness, still attached; the total weight is 4.75 g. The front of the seal is decorated with a moulded representation of a pine-cone attached to a twig with pine needles. The rivet at the back is placed asymmetrically, being closer to the perimeter than the centre and is marked with an ornate letter A, of which only the left side remains. The broken stub of the connecting strip, which once atta…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-919EEC
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger dating from the Post-medieval period, c.1600-1700. The hanger is a flat plate, roughly triangular in plan, 58.5 mm in width, 50 mm in height/length, 1 mm in thickness and 12.6 g in weight. The plate has been moulded in the form of a stylised thistle, its wider, lower section having two tricuspid floriate heads, with a trapezoidal space between them and the upper part with scalloped edges and a rounded base, representing the calyx of the flower. Above this is a projecting semi-circular hook, 20 mm long and 7 mm in diameter, for suspending the hange…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-8F79BB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-medieval cast and tinned copper-alloy double loop sub-oval buckle dating from c.1600-1700. The buckle is 43 mm in length, 32.5 mm in width, 2 mm in thickness and 8.45 g in weight. The frame has rounded corners and varies in width between 4 mm at the sides and 6.5 mm at each end. The strap bar is 2 mm wide with a large trilobed moulded knop at each end; the pin is missing. There are similar moulded trefoil knops mid-way along the outer edge the frame at each end of the buckle, with much shallower, bifid knops on the opposite, inner edges of the frame. Either side of the knops at…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-8F768A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped silver shilling of James I (1603-1625), Second coinage (1604-1619), mintmark grapes (1607), Spink 2655.
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Saturday 21st December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-8F7498
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and Fourth Issue (1561-1577), mintmark castle (1569-1571), dated to 1570 on the reverse, with intermediate bust 4B within inner beaded circle of 17.5 mm on the obverse, Spink 2562.
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Saturday 21st December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-8F7334
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and Fourth Issue (1561-1577), mintmark coronet (1567-1570), dated to 1569 on the reverse, intermediate bust 4B with ear showing within inner beaded circle 17.5 mm, Spink 2562.
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Saturday 21st December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-8EF846
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dupondius of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), Reece period 7, PIETATI AVG COS IIII S C reverse type (c.AD 158-159) depicting Pietas, draped standing front head left holding globe in extended raised right hand and child on left arm and to the left a small draped girl raising her right hand, but child to right missing, mint of Rome. Cf. BMC Vol.IV, p.354, pl.50, fig.6, no.2072
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-8EB1FB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pin from a D-shaped buckle, possibly dating from the Anglo-Saxon period, c.AD 575-625. The pin has broken off from the base plate above the loop that would have wound around the pin bar. The broken end is circular in section and 8 mm in diameter and the pointed end has been chiselled from both sides into a rectangular edge that is 5 mm in length and 3 mm in width. The base plates were often shield shaped as seen in D-shaped buckles illustrated in MacGregor & Bolick (1993) om pp.203-204, nos.34.45-34.52. See LVPL-A115C7 for a similar buckle on the database, which i…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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