Record ID: CORN-5BB2FA
Object type: COSTREL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isles of Scilly
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pottery barrel costrel of Merida red ware from Spain dating from the 16th century. The costrel is 325 mm long, 245 mm wide and 255 mm in height and at the neck, 8 mm in thickness. The fabric is a hard sandy ware with fine white mica inclusions and is reddish orange fading to pale orange in colour. It may originally have been coated with a thin layer of slip, but prolonged immersion in sea water has eroded the surface which is now coated with thin patches of marine salts and occasional calcified fragments of the tunnels of marine invertebrates. The main body of the vessel is a hollow…
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-77D8C7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete pottery vessel, circular in plan and ovoid in profile, with a pointed base with a 'nipple' terminal and at the opposite end, broken at the base of the neck and handle which is now missing along with the neck, spout and rim. The neck is circular in section and 17 mm in diameter externally at the break, with an aperture that is 8 mm in diameter. The handle is round in section and 18 mm in diameter at the break. The vessel is decorated with comb-impressed chevrons that have the apex at the top, running vertically down the vessel in six rows, alternating between wider chevrons …
Created on: Monday 28th October 2019
Last updated: Saturday 1st February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-11BAF9
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of 'Trevisker Ware' pottery dating from the Middle Bronze Age (c.1600-1200 BC). A sub-rectangular body sherd form a large storage vessel 45 mm long, 48 mm wide, 15 mm in thickness and 36.75 g in weight. The fabric is a gabbroic (made from clay that weathered over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar and dark augite. The external surface of fabric is an oxidised orange colour and is decorated with vertical and oblique bands of a cord-impressed design consisting of groups of up to three closely-spaced, parallel impressions, separated by unimpressed spa…
Created on: Saturday 24th August 2019
Last updated: Saturday 24th August 2019
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Record ID: CORN-BBD465
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Two pottery body sherds from the shoulder of an Iron Age globular jar, S-shaped in profile, in the style of South Western Decorated Ware, and made of local gabbroic fabric. The fabric is a light dark brown colour with a black burnished exterior that contains small inclusions of pale felspars and dark augite and a few larger inclusions of quartz. The decoration of an incised plain leaf pattern using a pair of curvilinear lines (mainly on the smaller sherd), below a border of two parallel lines that run horizontally around the neck of the vessel and contain many parallel oblique lines, …
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2017
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-BBC3E3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Two pottery body sherds from an Iron Age globular jar, in the style of South Western Decorated Ware, and made of local gabbroic fabric. The fabric is a mid brown colour, with a layer of black burnt material on the interior, that contains small inclusions of pale felspars and mica. The decoration of triple tooled horizontal parallel raised lines and grooves is typical of South Western Decorated jars found in the local region. But they are often found above and below stamps which these sherds might have had, but is now missing, and can be seen on sherds excavated from the Iron Age cliff…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2017
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-BBA689
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd of a storage vessel, likely from the Middle Bronze Age (c.1600-1200 BC) but without decoration to confirm a date within the 2nd millennium BC. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and mica. The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more oxidised orange exterior. The curvature of the upper edge of the sherd suggests that the original diameter of the vessel would have been about 500 mm in diameter. The fabric, thickness and curvature is typical of what is locally term…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2017
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-E5506D
Object type: DISH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments, a rim and body sherd, of a ceramic Samian ware dish with an everted rim with raised foliate mouldings. The bowl would have been wheel thrown within a mould with these decorative motifs impressed into it. The scroll like trails are part of leaf motif and the surface slip has been removed so that they look lighter and have been worn almost flat. The slip survives well on both sherds, giving the fine red fabric an added shine, as well as protecting it from wear. The body sherd is plain and curves slightly in profile so that it is probably from the base of a shallow dish as…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-A2CAA0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of body sherd from a pottery Bronze Age funerary urn or storage vessel. The exterior is decorated with parallel bands of impressed double twisted cord with no gaps between them, and is juxtaposed against another set of parallel bands of impressed cord at about a 45 degree angle, in two fields. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and mica. The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more oxidised orange exterior with some black patches of residue which are likely sooting. The c…
Created on: Sunday 10th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-A71B74
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery sherd from the shoulder of a globular jar with an everted rim, in the style of South West Decorated Ware, but made of local fabric with chalk and grog (crushed pot) inclusions (Roger Taylor pers comm). The fabric is dark grey in colour with larger grey inclusions of grog and smaller white flecks of chalk. The clay is grog-tempered rather than gabbroic (Henrietta Quinnell) so was not made in the Southwest but the style was certainly influenced by the local wares. The decoration of an incised plain leaf pattern using a pair of curvilinear lines, between two borders of two parall…
Created on: Tuesday 9th February 2016
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-86552A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a pottery body sherd from a large Bronze Age urn or food vessel. The exterior is undecorated so that dating within the 2nd millennium BC is difficult. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and mica.The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more oxidised orange exterior. The curvature of the upper edge of the sherd suggests that the original diameter of the vessel would have been about 400 mm in diameter. The fabric, thickness and curvature is typical of what is locally term…
Created on: Saturday 22nd August 2015
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-36895F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd with concave profile and dark grey fabric throughout, with mica and felspar inclusions, and iron staining and encrustation on the exterior. The fabric is well fired and the exterior has been burnished. The curvature of the sherd suggests that the cooking pot would have had a diameter of about 200 mm. The sherd appears to be in very well-made gabbroic fabric, well fired and finished. It is from the girth of a cooking pot and remnants of incised lattice around the girth are just detectable. The sherd is of interest because this quality gabbroic pottery does not a…
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-EC87C5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd of a large urn or food vessel decorated with a parallel pair of a double-plaited or twisted cord impressions running horizontally across the upper half of the exterior of the sherd. Between these two borders are double-plaited cord impressed triangles, where the base of the triangle is parallel to the borders. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) admixture with large inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite, mica and slate, and the decoration is typical of what is locally termed Trevisker ware, after a site in St Eval wher…
Created on: Monday 28th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-7AE8A3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery rim sherd of probably a bucket-shaped vessel, with a simple flat rim and an exterior surface that appears to be decorated with one ovate dimple or impression about 6 mm from the edge of the rim. The curvature of the rim suggests that the vessel would have had a diameter of about 200 mm. The fabric is an orangey buff colour on the exterior and a dark brown on the interior, with inclusions of pale felspar, dark augite and mica. These inclusions suggest that the fabric is a Gabbroic admixture, which is derived from the gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Liza…
Created on: Wednesday 5th March 2014
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-F8B284
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery rim sherd of bucket-shaped food vessel, with a slightly everted rim and a decorated exterior from the rim to the break of the sherd. Below the rim is a horizontal row of circular dimples and one incised finger-nail impression in an arc above one dimple. Below the row of dimples are a series of vertical incised lines, which are almost parallel but carried out without a care for symmetry. The curvature of the rim suggests that the vessel would have had a diameter of about 200 mm. There are patches of burnt material, mainly on the interior of the sherd, which suggests that the ve…
Created on: Saturday 15th February 2014
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-678A05
Object type: PIPE TAMPER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete ceramic pipe tamper in the form of a naive school boy wearing a tunic with a large collar and large buttons, perhaps representing a Blue Coat Scholar. The figure has bent arms with the hands resting on the protruding belly, and the face has chubby cheeks, a narrow rectangular nose, and circular pellets for eyes. The hair is defined by moulded vertical strands, which end at the collar at the side and on the back of the figure. There is a continuous ridge along the side of the body and the head, showing that the figure was made in a two-part mould. The legs of the firgure are…
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th November 2013
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Record ID: CORN-8CB724
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery shoulder sherd with a plain exterior apart from an applied cordon, semi-circular in profile, at the neck of the vessel. The cordon would have run around the circumference of the vessel, between the shoulder and neck, of a typical Iron Age jar, S-shaped in profile. This pottery is classified as 'Cordoned Ware' and the fabric has small inclusions of light felspar and dark augite, suggesting it is 'gabbroic' which is made of clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard in Cornwall. The colour of the clay has been oxidised on the interior to a light orange colour and the…
Created on: Tuesday 25th June 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-895647
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd decorated with two incised pendant arcs with an infilled background of sets of parallel incised lines set at right angles to each other, below a border made up of two parallel ridges and grooves. The border runs the circumference of the shoulder of the vessel, which is probably a typical Iron Age jar, S-shaped in profile. This type of pottery is classified as South-West Decorated Ware and the fabric has small inclusions of light felspar and dark augite, suggesting it is 'gabbroic' which is made of clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard in Cornwall. T…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-8804E5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd, probably from a flagon, of Oxfordshire Ware consisting of a fine orange fabric throughout with a darker red slip on the exterior and small inclusions of mica and what looks to the naked eye like sandstone. Found in the same area of the field as another sherd of Oxfordshire Ware (CORN-861721), probably from the same vessel, and a Roman brooch of Cornish Type 31 (CORN-8FDAD6). The estimated diameter from the curve of the sherd is about 200 mm, which corresponds to the flagon referred to below. Romano-British, 3rd-4th century AD Oxfordshire Ware is rare in C…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-861721
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd, probably from a flagon, of Oxfordshire Ware consisting of a fine orange fabric throughout with a darker red slip on the exterior and small inclusions of mica and what looks to the naked eye like sandstone. Found in the same area of the field as another sherd of Oxfordshire Ware, probably from the same vessel, and a Roman brooch of Cornish Type 31 (CORN-8FDAD6). The estimated diameter from the curve of the other larger sherd (CORN-8804E5) found in the same area is about 200 mm, which corresponds to the flagon referred to below. Romano-British, 3rd-4th century A…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-C2A644
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery sherd with fine incised pairs of parallel oblique lines within vertical linear borders, also consisting of two parallel lines. The pairs of oblique lines, which are at about a 45 degree angle, are divided by a central pair of vertical lines, so that they appear as a chevron or herringbone pattern when looked at as a whole. The sherd is made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica, and is orangey-brown on the exterior and dark brown on the interior of the sherd, with some …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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