Record ID: CORN-0F35D4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cordoned rim sherd from a large jar of Roman date (c. 100-300 AD) with a rolled rim and larger applied cordon, immediately beneath it, with a groove between to define the cordons. The sherd is a bright orangey colour throughout and the surfaces have been oxidised. The fabric contains mica, felspar and augite inclusions, which suggests that it is made from gabbroic clay, originating from the Lizard. The clay may have been made more iron-rich in order for the jar to look more like the terracotta colour of the Roman imports at the time. Romano-British in form. Carlyon (1987) illustrates …
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
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Record ID: CORN-1F13F5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a cauldron, with a pronounced central rib tapering to a worn 'hoof' foot with no collar. The foot is slightly flared in its width and rounded at its base. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate a similar example of Mid Wales Type on page 139, Fig.2, No.8, and another on page 166, Fig.1, which are both dated to the 16th century. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 95, No.591, which is dated from the 13th to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-8DE554
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy receptacle leg, rectangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in section, with a central mid-rib on one side. The foot end also has a rounded, broken extension, perhaps a tapered 'toe', or perhaps it was mis-cast. The foot end of the leg thickens to 48 mm and the broken top end, which would have attached to the body of the vessel, is 37 mm thick. This large leg probably came from a cauldron. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example of a receptacle legs on page 95, No. 588, which is dated from the 13th to the 17th century. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate a Westcountry ca…
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-5FD9B1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy cauldron leg, sub-rectangular in plan and semi-circular in profile and section with five equal lobes in an arc, which extend to five ribs. The broken edge on one side would have originally extended to the body of the vessel, probably a cauldron, due to the size and robustness of this leg, and the other end would have expanded to the full width of a claw foot. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate two cauldron legs on pages 144-5, Nos.149-150 which are dated to the early 17th century. Read (1988) illustrates a similar leg on page 95, Nos.587, which is dated fr…
Created on: Monday 27th October 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0856D3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Rim fragment of a cast copper alloy vessel, probably a shallow cooking bowl, with internally bevelled rim and a suggested diameter of about 220 mm. The rim is 39 mm long and 8 mm deep and 3 mm thick and the fragment is about 32 mm long and 2 mm thick just below the rim. Ottaway & Rogers (2002) illustrate a similar cast bowl with bevelled rim on page 2810, Fig.1394, No.14197, which is dated from the mid-15th to the early 17th century.
Created on: Friday 28th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-5A7104
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd decorated with incised oblique lines within curved chevrons, running obliquely under a border made up of three parallel incised lines. The border runs the circumference of the shoulder of the vessel, which is probably a typical Iron Age jar, S-shaped in profile. The surface has also been burnished slightly. The fabric looks like it is probably made from gabbroic clay, as there are light felspar inclusions and dark augite inclusions. The colour of the clay has been oxidised on the exterior to a light orange colour and the interior is slightly more buff to light bro…
Created on: Monday 27th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-5AB4F2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery rim sherd, un-decorated, from a simple open Iron Age jar with an upright neck. The sherd tapers towards the body from the rim, suggesting that the vessel was hand-made and built up of coils, where the thickness would vary from base to rim. The fabric looks like it is probably made from gabbroic clay, as there are medium to fine crushed light felspar inclusions and dark augite inclusions. The colour of the clay has been oxidised throughout from the exterior to interior to a light orange colour. This pot sherd may be associated with another (CORN-5A7104) that was found near…
Created on: Monday 27th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B2B042
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy foot from the leg of a cauldron, triangular in profile, with the base at right angles to the back, and trapezoidal in plan and in section at the base, and semi-circular at its broken end which would have attached to the leg. The front of the foot has two slight ridges in profile, but poorly cast if it was meant to have claw-like features. The following report was made by Fiona Thomas of Camborne School of Mines: Compound % Concentration Al 0.22 Si 0.38 P 0.04 S 1.12 Cl 0.60 K 0.10 Cr 1.06 Fe 5.60 Co 0.31 Ni 1.75 Cu 61.13 Zn 0.13 As 3.23 Sn 2.30 Sb 5.51 Pb 16.30 This …
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 1st July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-79D1C4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy vessel with two looped handles on either side of the neck of the container. The vessel is globular in shape with a rounded base and a defined narrower neck. The vessel could not have stood on a flat surface so would have been suspended so as not to lose its contents. One handle is more worn than the other, suggesting that the vessel was probably suspended from this side. These vessels were used to contain holy oil (Geoff Egan pers comm). There are several of these copper-alloy vessels from across England on the PAS database now, the most significant one, i…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-79E6F2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy rim or edge of a vessel, sub-rectangular in plan and flat in profile, with a slight curvature to the outer edge. The fragment consists of one long flat section of sheet held together to two broken sections by four sub-circular rivets, about 10 mm in diameter. The longer section was probably used to repair the broken rim and the rivets have been hammered in from this side, suggesting that this face was the upper face and therefore visible and improved. Ottaway & Rogers (2002) illustrate similar repair patches with large rivets on page 2815, Fig.1399, Nos.1…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Friday 3rd December 2010
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Record ID: CORN-24D453
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy handle from a vessel made up of a rectangular section with four parallel ribs, tapering to a slightly narrower, recessed, plain rectangular band. Both ends have been sheared off from what they were attached to, and the plain end has a broken edge which is leading off into another section at a 45 degree angle. This final section may have been riveted to a vessel and was still connected to it when the handle was torn away. Butler & Green (2003) illustrate an escutcheon with a loop for a handle that is riveted on to a skillet which has been convert…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th June 2010
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Record ID: CORN-CC0EB3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy receptacle foot, probably from a skillet or small vessel. The foot has broken off from the rest of the leg just above the collar, which remains. The foot is hoofed with one central rib which extends the base of the foot to a slight point. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate similar feet on a skillet on page 179, No.194, which is dated to the 17th century. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example of a broken foot on page 95, No.591, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-3A8165
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a posnet, missing its foot. The leg is triangular in plan and semi-circular in section, with a central rib running the length of the leg. The attachment end is broken and the break seems to have some burnt or melted material on the surface, suggesting that it might have been re-soldered on to the body of the skillet in an attempt to repair it in antiquity. The leg then tapers towards the other end which has broken above the foot. Bailey (1997) illustrates a similar example attached to a 'skillet' on page 36, No.7, which is dated to the…
Created on: Sunday 27th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6402B6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy foot from a cauldron leg, rectangular in plan, L-shaped in profile, and E-shaped in section, at the base. The foot has three ribs running vertically down the length of the outer face, divided about half way by a collar, running horizontally across the width of the foot. Below the collar, the foot terminates in a ‘paw’ with three projecting claws, the terminals of the ribs. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 96, No.595, which he dates from the 13th to the 17th century. Bailey (1997) illustrates a similar example on page 36, No.1. Butler an…
Created on: Monday 28th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-8EA2D3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery amphora or storage jar with everted rim and narrow neck, s-shaped in profile with a rounded shoulder, 600 mm in circumference, tapering to the waist, 580 mm in circumference, and then to the base, 500 mm in circumference, which ends in a point. Part of the rim is broken and the surface of the vessel has patches where it is covered in fossilised marine organisms, as it has been underwater from some time, and probably originates from a wrecked ship. The globular shape echoes the earlier amphorae or oil jars from the Roman period, such as the Dressel 23 type illustrated in Haye…
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-F15070
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy receptacle leg, sub-rectangular in plan and pelta-shaped in section, probably from a cauldron, with a central mid-rib expanding towards the slightly everted foot end. One of the 'claws' of the foot is missing and the top end has broken off so that the original length is unknown. Read (1988) illustrates a similar leg on page 95, No.588, which dates from the 13th to the 17th century. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate a Westcountry cauldron on page 165, No.170, which also has long legs with a central rib, which dates from the 15th to the 16th century; and a …
Created on: Thursday 4th September 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-F1B491
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy receptacle foot, sub-rectangular in plan and tri-lobed in section, with three remaining ribs and a broken edge on either side which would have originally extended to the full width of a claw foot, probably from the end of the leg of a cauldron. Butler and Green (2003) illustrates two cauldron feet on pages 144-5, Nos.149-150 which are dated to the 17th century. Read (1988) illustrates similar foots on page 95-6, Nos.589 & 595, which are dated from the 13th to the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 4th September 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-C4BE64
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment or foot of cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a cauldron, rectangular in plan and plano-convex in section and profile. There are three ribs running parallel to each other from the broken top end to the bottom of the foot. The foot thickens and slightly widens to make these ribs appear like a claw. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 96, No.595, which is dated from the 13th to the 17th century. Butler & Green (2003) illustrate a cauldron with similar legs on page 73, Fig.3, which is dated to the 16th century, and another on page 142, No.145, which is…
Created on: Friday 30th March 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-D8CE54
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a cauldron, rectangular in plan and profile and plano-convex in section. There are three ribs running parallel to each other from the broken top end to the damaged bottom end of the leg. The leg would have continued into a foot, probably shaped like a claw, and has broken above the foot and the collar that would have divided leg from foot. The central rib is more pronounced than the other two either side of it, but all three are quite worn. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 95, No.588, which is dated from the …
Created on: Saturday 31st March 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-AADD45
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pottery body sherds that fit together to form part of the side of a jar. The sherds have a brown interior and core and an orangey exterior. The fabric contains mica, felspar and augite inclusions, which suggests that it is made from gabbroic clay, originating from the Lizard. The larger body sherd measures 56 mm long by 36 mm wide by 10 mm thick, and the smaller 36 mm long by 47 mm wide by 9 mm thick, which is probably closer to the rim of the vessel. Similar pottery jars have been found at other sites in Penwith, such as Porthmeor and Chysauster, and date from the Romano-Briti…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2015
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