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-E9243D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pierced cast lead weight of Medieval or Post-medieval date, c.1200-1700. The weight is 23 mm in length, between 11 mm and 15 mm in width, 9.5 mm in thickness and 23 g in weight which equates to three quarters of a troy ounce and four fifths of an avoirdupois ounce. It is sub-conical in shape, being trapezoidal in plan and section and triangular in profile, with a flat base and top and with one flat and one convex face. The weight is pierced for suspension by a circular hole 8 mm long and 5 mm in diameter at the flat face tapering to 4 mm at the convex face. The weight has a uniform,…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-4070E2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead goldsmiths weight, square in plan and rectangular in profile, with a raised single fleur de lis with a transverse band at the centre on the obverse and what appears to be a cross-hatched pattern on the reverse, but the surface is too worn to make out the detail. It weighs 2.45 g which equates to a twelfth of a Troy ounce (30.5g) and would have been used by goldsmiths, who bought precious metal by weight, to check the weight of bullion. Biggs and Withers (2000) illustrate similar lead goldsmiths weights with banded fleurs de lis on the obverse and cross-hatched reverses, whi…
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-BEE08A
Object type: BIRD FEEDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead bird feeder or birdcage trough, ovoid in plan and trapezoidal in profile, and between 52 mm and 48 mm in diameter at the top, tapering to 24 mm in diameter at its base, 19 mm in height, 4.5 mm in thickness and 98 g in weight. The feeder was originally a circular bowl or cup which has now been distorted by pressure whilst in the ground. The rim is damaged and worn but appears to have been decorated with some mouldings and was probably beaded, as the example from Hertfordshire below, but there is no decoration on the body of the vessel. Vessels of this type were used in bird cage…
Created on: Thursday 26th September 2019
Last updated: Saturday 5th October 2019
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Record ID: CORN-D33FFD
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast and perforated lead spindle whorl or weight, of late Medieval or early Post-Medieval date. It is sub-circular in plan and plano-convex in profile. The spindle whorl appears to be decorated with triangular impressions on the upper face, but some of these may be due to damage since deposition and are atypical as most decorated whorls have moulded and raised decoration. The base has a concentric groove between the perforation and the outer edge which have been rubbed-over and then filed down. These weights, usually thought to be spindle whorls, are common finds in other regions of…
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-112516
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast and pierced lead spindle whorl or weight, sub-circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, 22.5 mm in diameter, 10 mm in height and 19.95 g in weight. The whorl is mis-shapen and appears to have been damaged and crushed on one side, probably in antiquity because its surface is now completely coated with white corrosion, with slight pitting on the convex face. The central perforation is sub-triangular, 9.5 mm by 7.5 mm but may originally have been circular. The flat face was impressed when it was made with a concentric ring, 13.5 mm in diameter, between the central perforation …
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Sunday 7th April 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-95F6FB
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead personal seal matrix dating from the Medieval period. The seal was originally circular in plan, 27.5 mm in diameter and 2 mm in thickness; approximately a third of the matrix is missing, including around 40 per cent of its circumference; its current weight is 6.9 g. The central device is of a flower with a deeply stamped equal-armed foliate cross, which completely pierces the thickness of the seal in several places, alternating with lightly incised smaller petals in the four angles. The legend around the circumference is contained within an outer, continuous ba…
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
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