Record ID: CORN-D118F0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular buckle of late Medieval to early Post-Medieval date c.1450-1550. The double-looped annular frame is of a design known as a rose buckle, being decorated in the form of a five petalled flower which varies between 31 and 32 mm in diameter and is 2 mm in thickness. Each petal has two lobes with incised decoration consisting of a border following the curved outer edge which frames several transverse lines radiating from it, but much of the upper surface is pitted and corroded so that the detail cannot be made out. The buckle has a strap bar that is 20 mm long an…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-D114C6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic 'gaping mouth beast' buckle dating from the late Early Medieval to the early Medieval period, c.1000-1150. The buckle has a single loop frame that is trapezoidal in plan, with rounded knops on each external corner, and hole, 5 mm in diameter, just inside the frame for the pin, now missing. The moulding beyond the loop is in the form of the head of a beast, perhaps a fish or sea monster, with its mouth wide open like a basking shark. On the top of the head is a Y-shaped crest forming eyebrows and a n…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A7120C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver short cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Short cross coinage (1216-1247), Class VIIc2 (1240-1242), moneyer Nichole, Canterbury mint, Mass pl.77, no.2066.
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A6EAA6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver plated copper alloy contemporary copy of a halfcrown of Charles I (1625-1649), Exeter mint (1643-1646), mintmark rose (1643-1645) with horseman with only head and hind quarters faintly visible as it is so worn and damaged on the obverse, and round shield surrounded by eight round scrolls on reverse, Spink 3067.
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 3rd February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A6A545
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman dupondius or as (c.AD 41-250) with laureate head facing right on the obverse and standing central figure on reverse but too corroded and incomplete to say any more.
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A69B60
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman sestertius dating from the 2nd century as it appears to have parallel sides suggesting it was made from a strip of brass, but too worn and corroded to make out any details.
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A646F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper-alloy sestertius of Faustina II (AD 147-175), dating from the period c. AD 161-175 (Reece period 8), IVNONI REGINAE S C reverse type depicting Juno standing left holding patera in extended right hand and vertical sceptre in left, peacock at feet to left. Mint of Rome. Cf. BMC IV p.533, pl.73, fig.4, no.919
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-A6319F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), dating from AD 140-144 (Reece Period 7). PAX AVG S C reverse type depicting Pax standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. Cf. RIC III, p.109, no.616; BMC IV, p.203, pl.29, fig.6, no.1265.
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-256904
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished dark green doleritic axehead, sub-triangular in plan with a pointed butt end and a straight cutting edge, and lentoid in profile and ovate in section. The axehead measures 161 mm in length, 62 mm in width at the cutting edge, and 39 mm in thickness, and weighs 527.7 g. The implement has a marked posterior taper and is polished over the entire surface although the surface is pitted. A chip is missing off the butt end and some shallow chips to the body on both faces. Half way down the right margin of the ventral face there is the filled in rectangular section that has been ta…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-234546
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy socketed sickle dating from the Early Iron Age, c.800-700 BC. The crescentic blade is 120 mm long, 35 mm wide and 2 mm thick and has a flat mid-rib on both faces defined by a pair of grooves that are 14 mm apart near the socket and taper to a point 12 mm in from the end of the blade. The outer edge of the sickle blade is thinner at 1 mm and sharper, though damaged, than the internal edge which is 1.5 mm thick, but the internal edge is usually considered to be the cutting edge on sickles so this would appear to be a double-bladed tool. The socket is at right angles to…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
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