Record ID: CORN-EE23E2
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy knife handle with a bird head finial and a pattern of tears or drops of blood running down the body of the tang. The tears are recessed and defined by rows of linear impressed ovals and dots, which give the surface a texture. The surface is now quite corroded but was probably once lacquered. These tear-shaped motifs are often used in heraldic contexts, and the knife may have been more ornamental, rather than functional, and possibly part of a marriage pair, with a matching handle for the other spouse (Geoff Egan pers comm). Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007) illus…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2011
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Record ID: CORN-EE82E6
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hexagonal coin weight for the Spanish gold double excellente. "The hexagonal shape suggests that it was made in Paris, but the lowercase letter 'y' on the obverse would suggest that it is Spanish and might even be 14th century. The weight now weighs 5.68 grams, but it may have lost some mass, and if it was originally around 6 grams that would make it a weight for a double excellente" (Paul Withers pers comm). There are some silver coins, the real and the blanca del agnus dei, with the letter Y on them, issued by Juan I (1379-1390). The double excellente was introduce…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Friday 16th April 2010
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Record ID: CORN-0E67A1
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd from an S-profile beaker decorated with a single twisted cord impressed in a chevron pattern on the beaker's exterior surface. The single twisted cord is more unusual on beakers, which are often comb impressed, but locally it is part of a tradition that continues throughout the Bronze Age, and is commonly seen on Trevisker ware. The fabric is a uniform light orange throughout with a slightly reduced interior surface and is likely to be made of gabbroic clay from the Lizard as it has light felspar, dark augite and quartzite inclusions. Beaker period c.2500-1700 …
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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-0FCF32
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Continental Iron Age base-silver (billon) stater of Armorican type. The type originated on the Channel Islands or Cotentin region, c. 60-50 BC. The coin is a variant of published types; the nearest reference before DT (Delestree & Tache) 2284-2285.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 15th October 2014
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Record ID: CORN-225F30
Object type: LITHIC CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint single-platform microlith blade core, triangular in plan, oval in section and trapezoidal in profile. The core has had blades taken off it on only two thirds of the way around its central axis, with a layer of cortex running from one third of the edge of the platform down to the base of the core. The flint is a translucent brown-grey colour and the curvature of the core suggests that it was made from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is 4:5, which is usual for micro-cores. Bond (2004) illustrates similar examples on page 120, Fig.5.104, No.82, which is dated…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-227708
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint snapped end scraper, semi-circular in plan, triangular in section and in profile. The proximal end and both sides of the dorsal face have been unimarignally retouched. There is also a nick in the right edge of the dorsal face, but this is probably due to damage and not deliberate. The scraper may have been broken through use if enough pressure was applied to shear it off from the other half that was still held in the haft. Alternatively, it may have been broken since being deposited through coming into contact with agricultural machinery. See CORN-2286F2 and CORN-24A3D6 for si…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-228052
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint leaf-shaped arrowhead, lozenge-shaped in plan, profile and triangular in section. The arrowhead has been worked on all margins of the dorsal face, but has been more extensively worked towards the distal end, particularly along the left margin. The proximal end has been waisted to be better used for hafting, and has been broken off above the bulb of percussion, on the ventral face. The flint is a grey brown colour and translucent, and was probably knapped from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 3:2. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 14…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-2286F2
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint snapped end scraper, semi-circular in plan, triangular in section and trapezoidal in profile. The distal end and both sides of the dorsal face have been unimarignally retouched. The scraper may have been broken through use if enough pressure was applied to shear it off from the other half that was still held in the haft. Alternatively, it may have been broken since being deposited through coming into contact with agricultural machinery. See CORN-227708 and CORN-24A3D6 for similar examples from this site, which suggests that this may have been a more common occurance, as this i…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-228D07
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint backed side scraper, semi-circular in plan and trapezoidal in profile and section. The scraper has been unifacially reworked on the right edge of the dorsal face, from the distal to the proximal end, and naturally truncated on the left edge where cortex remains from the original edge of the flint pebble. The ventral face retains the bulb of percussion at the proximal end. The flint is a mottled light grey to brown colour, made from a local beach pebble, with the orignal cortex remaining along the left edge of the dorsal face, from the distal to the proximal end. The length to …
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-229672
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint waisted end and side scraper, almost oval in plan, trapezoidal in profile and triangular in section. The distal end and the lateral margins have been unimarginally retouched on the dorsal face. The proximal end has been snapped off at the base of the bulb of percussion. The flint is a mottled light to dark grey colour, probably made from a local beach pebble. There is a thin sliver of cortex running from the medial ridge to the left edge of the dorsal face at the distal end, suggesting that the scraper was made from a secondary flake. The length to breadth ratio is almost 6:5…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-229C76
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint snapped side scraper, semi-circular in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The scraper has been unifacially reworked on the right edge of the dorsal face and naturally truncated on the left edge where cortex remains from the original edge of the flint pebble. The ventral face retains the bulb of percussion at the proximal end. The flint is a mottled light to dark grey colour, made from a local beach pebble, with some of the orignal cortex remaining at the distal end of the dorsal face. The length to breadth ratio is about 4:3. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar e…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-22A3B1
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery rim sherd from a bowl with a 'Cornish flanged' (Quinnell, 2004, p.124) rim. The flange below the rim is rounded and made of an added strip which has been applied to the body of the bowl. The angle of the flange is at about 90 degrees from the rim of the bowl. Above the flange is a recessed groove which helps to define it from the rim. The fabric is is a light orangey brown colour throughout and contains mica, felspar and augite inclusions, which suggests that it is made from gabbroic clay, originating from the Lizard. The exterior surface has been black-coated and then burni…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-23F237
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete wire copper alloy bow brooch with short bilateral spring, coiled into 5 loops on a central, solid copper alloy axial rod, which holds the spring together. The chord seems to be missing but it could only have been attached to one end of the spring as the other end is in the centre, next to the central coil which extends to form part of the bow. The bow is broken and bent at an angle from subsequent damage, so the original curvature cannot be made out. The foot, pin and catchplate are missing. The surface of the brooch is corroded and pitted so that the recorder cannot determi…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-2433C8
Object type: BOWL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a glass bowl with an everted folded rim. The bowl was likely shallow with a broad rim. The rim is oval in section and the bowl would have been circular in plan. The glass is a pale greenish grey colour and translucent, with dirt trapped within the folded rim. Margeson (1993) illustrates a similar example from Norwich on page 110, Fig.74, No.710, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-2453B1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy quatrefoil horse harness pendant decorated with a scallop shell filled with the remains of red enamel. The scallop shell is a symbol of St. James and pilgrimage generally. The pendant is missing its attachment loop, but the edge of one arc of the quatrefoil is damaged, and it may have been attached at this point. Griffiths in Clark (2004) illustrates a similar enamelled example on page 66, Fig.49, No.66, which is dated to the 14th century. Read (2001) illustrates a similar enamelled example on page 56, Fig.35, No.445, which is dated to the 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-246475
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy mount with asymmetrical trefoil top, waisted middle, and trefoil end tapering to a point. There are the remains, just the bases, which have been worn flat, of the two integral lugs on the back of the mount. Read (2001) illustrates similar examples on page 34, Fig.19, Nos.288-290, which are dated to the 17th century. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 116, No.750, which is dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-246E62
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of James I (1603-1625), first bust, II behind head; initial mark thistle, c.1603-4; Spink 2649; North 2076
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-248166
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307); Class 10cf5; c.1302-7; mint of Bury St. Edmunds; North 1043; Spink 1414
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-248F64
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), possibly Class 10cf on crown ornaments and A; c.1302-7; mint of Canterbury
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-2497E6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint borer or piercer, with the spurred end to the left side of the distal end, looking at the dorsal face. The borer is 'P'-shaped in plan, lozenge-shaped in section and triangular in profile. The borer has been unimarginally retouched on the left margin of the dorsal face, to create the spur, and the left margin of the ventral face, on the other side of the spur. There is also some retouch at the base of the right margin of the dorsal face, towards the proximal end. The flint is a mottled light grey to white colour, with some iron staining on the both faces, and the length to bre…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-24A3D6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint snapped end scraper, an elongated semi-circular in plan, triangular in section and trapezoidal in profile. The distal end and both sides of the dorsal face have been unimarignally retouched. The scraper may have been broken through use if enough pressure was applied to shear it off from the other half that was still held in the haft. Alternatively, it may have been broken since being deposited through coming into contact with agricultural machinery. See CORN-2286F2 and CORN-227708 for similar examples, which suggests that this may have been a more common occurance, as this is …
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-24ADF7
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint thumbnail scraper, almost circular in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile, and semi-circular in section. The distal end and lateral margins have been unimarginally retouched on the dorsal face. The proximal end has been snapped off at the base of the bulb of percussion. The flint is a mottled dark grey colour with white specs, probably made from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is 1:1. Bond illustrates a similar example on page 145, Fig.5.131, No.6, which is dated to the Beaker period, and another on page 154, Fig.5.138, No.4, which is dated to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-24B711
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint end and side scraper, almost triangular in plan, rectangular in profile and lozenge-shaped in section. The proximal end and the left lateral margin have been unimarginally retouched on the dorsal face. The left margin of the ventral face has also been retouched, towards the distal end. This edge is notched and may have been used as a graver. The distal end has been created by a curved hinge-fracture which makes it look folded. The proximal end has been snapped off at the base of the bulb of percussion. The flint is a mottled light grey to white colour, probably made from a lo…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-24C0A6
Object type: LITHIC CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint single-platform microlith blade core, sub-rectangular in plan, oval in section and square in profile. The core has had blades taken off of it on three quarters of the way around its central axis, with a layer of cortex running from about half of the edge of the platform in an arc down to the base of the core. The flint is a translucent grey-brown colour and the curvature of the core suggests that it was made from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is almost 5:4, which is usual for micro-cores. Bond (2004) illustrates similar examples on page 120, Fig.5.104, N…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-24CDA2
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint backed side scraper semi-circular in plan and sub-rectangular in profile and section. The scraper has been unifacially reworked on the right edge of the dorsal face, from the proximal to the distal end, and naturally truncated on the left edge where cortex remains from the original edge of the flint pebble. The ventral face retains the bulb of percussion at the proximal end. The flint is a mottled light to dark grey colour, made from a local beach pebble, with some of the orignal cortex remaining on the left edge of the dorsal face, from the proximal to the distal end. The len…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-8CC3C2
Object type: MACEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete doleritic greenstone cushion macehead or shafthole adze, oval in plan, tapering slightly towards one end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. Both ends have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. The implement has been worked from a beach cobble and would have been collected from the coast. It would have then been pecked and ground into shape and the central hole bored by using sand and a drill. The shaft is 30 mm in diameter and is circular in plan and has a slight 'hour-glass' shape in profile suggesting that it has…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4AB6C1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), Class 10cf4 looking at crown ornaments and letters A and S; c.1302-7; mint of Canterbury; Spink 1413; North 1042/1043
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4B1E65
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), Class 10cf1 looking at crown ornaments and letters A and S; c.1302-7; mint of Canterbury; Spink 1410; North 1040
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4B60B1
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy dress hook fastener with openwork decoration consisting of three fleurets surrounding central six-pointed star, encompassed by a twisted, rope-like border. Within this border are two knops, one at each end of the rectangular fastening loop above, where it meets the border. The aperture would have been used to attach the dress hook to a loop of fabric, looped around the bar, or the bar could have been directly sewn onto the material. Bailey (2004) illustrates similar examples on page 95, Figs.12.9 & 12.10, which are dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4BDCA1
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of the upper stone of a greisen rotary quern, semi-circular in plan and plano-convex in profile and section. The upper surface shows the remains of a central hopper or recess, and a wedge-shaped aperture at one end which was part of the socket for slotting a wooden handle into the stone quern. The handle would have allowed the upper section of the two-part quern to be rotated over the base section, with the grain between the two, so that it was ground into flour. The break beyond the socket, an obvious weak spot, looks more recent as it is not too abraded. The diameter of the …
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4C0E82
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Large weathered granite lower stone or base of a rotary quern with a central hole for a wooden spindle to hold it to the upper stone of the rotary quern which would have also been perforated centrally. The spindle would have allowed the upper section of the two-part quern to be rotated over the base section, with the grain between the two, so that it was ground into flour. The stone is about 530 mm in diameter and about 100 mm thick at the eye which is 60 mm in diameter and a complete perforation. Such perforations may have enabled the spindle to have been fixed to a lever set beneath …
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Sunday 7th August 2016
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Record ID: CORN-4C2AE3
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the lower stone of a weathered granite rotary quern with a central hole for a wooden spindle to hold it to the upper stone of the quern which would have also been perforated centrally. The spindle would have allowed the upper section of the two-part quern to be rotated over the base section, with the grain between the two, so that it was ground into flour. The upper stone is now broken into two pieces, and the larger piece is also pictured here. The diameter of the larger piece is about 290 mm and the height about 80 cm, and the diameter of the eye or hole about 30 mm. T…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-4C36F3
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the upper stone of a greisen rotary quern, semi-circular in plan and plano-convex in profile and section. The upper surface shows the remains of a central hopper or recess, and a wedge-shaped aperture at one end which was part of the socket for slotting a wooden handle into the stone quern. The handle would have allowed the upper section of the two-part quern to be rotated over the base section, with the grain between the two, so that it was ground into flour. The break at one end of the fragment looks more recent as it is not too abraded. This quern fragment was found …
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-9872C6
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone and small saddle quern. The muller is sub-oval in plan, with one rounded end and one flat, where the edge is broken. This edge is not as abraded as the rest of the rubber, suggesting that the surface was exposed after the rubber was originally deposited, and is therefore a later break. The stone is flat on the side that was used for rubbing, and concave on the opposite face, where it was used instead as a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make f…
Created on: Sunday 27th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-A01AE5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Single sheet copper alloy tongue-shaped strap-end, folded lengthways and tapering to a fleur de lis knop at its terminal. The folded side of the strap-end has split open from the middle to the upper attachment edge. There is one rivet hole just below the attachment edge with the rivet still extant, attaching the two ends of the strap-end together. The surfaces of the strap-end are quite scratched, but one face appears to have some crude decoration of diagonal lines with some cross-hatching towards the terminal end. Egan (2002) illustrates similar examples on page 131, Nos.605 & 606, w…
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-B177A3
Object type: BALDRIC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy sword belt fitting or baldric ring, circular in profile and D-shaped in section, having a slightly flatter inner edge. The outer surface of the ring or hoop is inlaid with red glass triangles, arranged in a pattern pointing inwards from the edge, so that the alternating copper alloy spaces are triangular or diamond-shaped. The glass is the so called 'sealing wax' glass of the Iron Age, called thus because of the opaque deep red colour. It is technically known as enamel when in fact it is chips of glass inlay. The glass has undergone SEM analysis with Mary …
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-B1BC12
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy mount with trefoil openwork frame, decorated with scrolls and leaf motifs and terminating in a trefoil knop in the form of a fleur de lis. The mount has two integral lugs on the back, worn flat after becoming un-attached. Read (2001) illustrates similar examples on page 35, Fig.20, Nos.300-302, which are dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B1D656
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy thimble with rounded steel top which has corroded so that the entire thimble is covered in iron oxide, obscuring any pattern on the surface. Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar example on page 14, No.39, which is dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B1E796
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy spur with sides that are hemispherical in section with a shallow curve. The neck is oval in section and curves upwards to a straight rowel box, but the terminal and rowel are both missing. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 65, Fig.41, No.498, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B20737
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stamped lead alnage cloth seal of Charles II (1660-1685), consisting of two sub-circular discs joined by a folded connecting strip. The obverse face bears the image in relief of the bust of Charles II facing right. On the reverse is the image of a crowned thistle with the letter 'I' in the left field, but nothing to the right where the duty in pence is normally represented. The images on both sides are contained within a circular border of incuse rays. There also appears to be part of a border of stamped beading around the rays on the obverse, but parts of the edges are miss…
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-F4C747
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of the upper stone of a weathered granite rotary quern with a small central hole for a wooden spindle to hold it to the lower stone of the quern which would have also been perforated centrally. The spindle would have allowed the upper section of the two-part quern to be rotated over the base section, with the grain between the two, so that it was ground into flour. The diameter of the sotne is about 350 mm and the height about 70 cm, and the diameter of the eye or hole about 20 mm. The granite is medium grained and has weathered so that its softer inclusions of felspars have wo…
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-F56702
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy two-piece, circular, hollow-domed button with moulded central fleuret with five petals, surrounded by another larger fleuret with five heart-shaped petals, all within a border of ten arcs. The back of the button is missing its loop but the base of the attachment remains where the loop would have been soldered on. Read (1988) illustrates an example with similar decoration on page 146, No.979, which is dated to the 17th century. But he also illustrates a bridle boss with a very similar pattern on page 180, No.1223, which is dated to the early 18th century. Bailey…
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-F5C9D7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast gilt copper alloy two-piece button, circular in plan and flat in section, with a circular disc surrounded by moulded openwork decoration in the form of fourteen domed annulets, each with a border of tiny pellets. The back of the button retains its circular loop which has been soldered on as a separate piece. The upper face of the button is very corroded but the back retains some of the original gilding just inside the edge of the circular plate. Bailey (2004) illustrates two similar examples, on page 71, Figs.9.248 & 9.249, which are both dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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-1F8882
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy spur, semi-circular in section, with a short flat neck and rowel box, with the remains of the rowel held in place by an extant rivet. One of the arms remains with a single-loop rounded terminal with one attachment hole. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 157, No.1057, which is dated to the 17th century. Read (2001) illustrates a similar neck and rowel box on page 65, Fig.41, No.502, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-1FB907
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt hanger with two separate missing rivets. Inverted, the mount has a trefoil top, above the upper rivet, and two bifid projections on its body, the lower ones on either side of the lower rivet. The hook is zoomorphic, probably a swan's neck and head and there is a moulded pattern of foliage in relief on the outward face, but the surface is quite corroded. There is also residue remaining around the two rivet holes on both sides of the mount. The picture shows the mount inverted to how it would have been used, along with others, hooked onto…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
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Record ID: CORN-1FEE21
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton of Georg Schultes, master 1515, died January, 1559, his 'Lion of St. Mark' types recorded between 1551 and 1553, mint of Nuremberg, Mitchener 1303 The coin has been cleaned so that it is now a brass colour.
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-2ECC87
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy purse bar with an oval suspension loop, acorn-shaped neck terminal, and a central square-shaped block. The surface is corroded and more recently gashed so that no decoration can be seen. The central block is drilled and fitted with a swivelling oval loop which is lozenge-shaped in cross-section. There is a moulded, stylised, zoomorphic head to either side of the central block, gripping the side arms, which are circular in cross-section, in its mouth. The side arms are stepped or taper after a further 18 mm from the edge of these mouths to their present terminals. The…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: CORN-2FBD67
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a tinned cast copper alloy asymmetrical buckle frame with openwork decoration in the form of two square apertures and two B-shaped apertures, either side of a diamond-shaped moulding. There are also projections on the outside edge of the frame, in the form of four longer knops and four shorter ones, alternating at intervals. The frame tapers towards the central bar, now missing, which would have held a copper alloy plate and pin. The fragment was probably part of a trapezoidal double-looped buckle, used with a waist girdle, with more ornate openwork decoration on the oth…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-300934
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead weight, rectangular in plan and profile, and flat in section. It has been incised at one end with the letters 'M' and 'N' which might refer to someone's initials. The top face has also been incised with a single horizontal line down the middle of the weight. Small flat lead rectangular or square weights are often termed 'Apothecary weights' which were used from the 15th to the 17th centuries, once the mass of the English penny declined steeply and the current penny could no longer be used as a substitute for a weight, especially for sensitive purposes such as making medic…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-73EA53
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy French jetton, struck in Tournai c.1417-1497, probably after 1423 when Charles VII (1422-1461) introduced the silver Blanc à la coronelle (coin). The obverse compares well to Mitchener 624a and the reverse to Mitchener 626.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-744206
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Silver Republican legionary denarius of Mark Antony, c.32-31 BC, travelling mint, RRC 544/26 Stamped with an 'N' on the obverse which is a banker's mark. Were it an imperial or official countermark it would be a punched die (Sam Moorhead pers comm). This coin likely came in with the Roman army during the 1st century AD. However, Mark Antony denarii are known to have remained in circulation until the 3rd century AD.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-748DB3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Augustus (c.AD 161-180), Victory holding shield on trunk of palm tree with VIC PAR on shield, 2nd issue, c.AD 166; BMC 1290; RIC 934-5 This coin was struck to celebrate the Roman victory over the Parthian army in the East (note VIC PAR on the shield). The Romans even reached the Parthian capital Ctesiphon, in modern Iraq, which they sacked in AD 165. This coin is square in shape and would have come from a square blank clipped from a rectangular row of blanks, which was common way of producing sestertii in the 2nd century AD.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-B2A682
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axe head, missing its side loop, mouth and moulding. The mouth would have been sub-rectangular in plan. The surface is worn and pitted, especially along the casting seams, but there is a layer on one face that remains so that three ribs are still visible, between the side edges of the axe head. The ribs extend down about three quarters of the length of the body of the axe head, and the central rib is more pronounced and appears to be the longest. Half of the other face is missing, and has exposed the organic material still held within the axe. The…
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
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Record ID: CORN-B2D613
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast enamelled heraldic shield-shaped harness pendant with some of the blue enamel surviving so that the image of a lion rampant facing left is just visible. Both faces of the pendant are corroded so that much of the surfaces are missing, and part of the suspension loop is also missing. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 53, Fig.32, No.411, which is dated to the 14th century.
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B30096
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight depicting a ship on the obverse with a fleur de lis to the left of the mast and a lion passant to the right. The weight is uniface with the reverse blank, although some marks can be seen, possibly as a result of the flans being adjusted to weight by filing, or the weight having been struck on an anvil, or another flat surface which may have been patterned. The surface is too corroded to be sure. These coin weights were produced in Britain from the 15th to the 16th centuries to check the weight of the gold noble. Withers (1995) illustrates several examples…
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B31DC7
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Stamped incomplete silver book binding or bar mount in the shape of a sword, with a 'pommel' and 'hilt', in plan, and flat in profile. There are two tiny rivets inside the bifid 'hilt' section and an etched pair of initials 'L' 'I' with oblique lines filling in the interiors of the letters. These are incomplete and trimmed at either edge, suggesting that this piece might have been cut from a larger piece with more lettering on it. "If it is as late as I suspect, it is oddly unfinished in some aspects - the edges, the rivets - to be made of silver - presumably adapted from something …
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B34167
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Punched fragment of a pewter book hasp or clasp with moulded crosses alternating with groups of three pellets above individual pellets, arranged in different patterns, within a border made up of a line of square impressions. Read (1992) illustrates an example of a book clasp with a similar pattern on page 75, No.19, which is dated from the late 16th to the early 18th century. Bailey (2004) illustrates a button with a similar pattern on page 38, Fig.8.33, which is dated to the 17th century. Read (2004) illustrates another button with a similar pattern on page 39, No.132, which …
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B357D6
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead papal bulla of Pope Clement VI (1342-1352), with the name in relief CLE/MENS/PP VI on the reverse, a floret above and below. The small floret at the start of the text, and the reversed bar to the 'N' are characteristic of bullae of Clement VI. The obverse is very worn and only a few pellets remain that would have formed part of the border and surrounded the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, to the left and right of a cross in the centre. Bullae of Clement VI are relatively frequent and mark an upsurge in the use of papal documents about the time of the Black Death. …
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-673973
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy bow brooch with twisted wire extensions for wings and a circular rivet hole between the extensions, at the head of the brooch, possibly for a head stud. The pin is missing but part of the catchplate remains at the base of the bow. Camerton B Colchester derivative (Sally Worrell pers comm) 1st century AD (Dr. J.D. Hill pers comm) Olivier in Barrett et al. (2000), illustrates similar examples, with applied rivets, from Cadbury Castle, on page 140, Nos. 37-8, which date from c.AD 43-70 (Sally Worrell pers comm). Hattatt (2000) illustrates a similar C…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-712A32
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy finger ring, stirrup-shaped in profile, with a rectangular bezel with five sub-circular cells or settings for stones within it, consisting of four smaller settings around one larger central setting. What remains in the base of these settings is lead oxide which was used to hold the stones, now missing, in place. "The dividers between the individual stones look asymmetrical to the extent that they would seem to be catering for slightly irregular shaped natural gems in the Medieval tradition, rather than the precisely regularised, facetted gems of the Post…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-71B096
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver penny of James I (1603-1625), Third Coinage (1619-1625), makers mark two pellets, Spink 2672, North 2128.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-71E862
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Aquitaine denier au léopard of Edward III (1327-1377), so Anglo-Gallic, second type, Elias No.95 Elias (1984) illustrates a similar example in The Anglo-Gallic Coins on page 133, No.95.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-801205
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper five reis of King Pedro II (1683-1706) of Portugal with P II for Petrus II on the obverse and on the reverse, D G PORT ET ALG REX, 'King of Portugal and Algarve' as the normal title. This design was used on 4 denominations of copper coin and this is the 5 reis piece, from the V within a wreath on the reverse. Dated to 1699 on the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: CORN-804EE4
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete pewter medal commemorating Admiral Vernon's capture of Porto-Bello, 22 November 1739. Portobelo is a port city in the Province of Colón in Panama and was under Spanish colonial posession, when Vernon captured it in 1739. There are two versions that have the royal coat of arms on the obverse, as in this case, rather than a portrait of Vernon. Reference: Medallic Illustrations, Vol II, pp.539-40, nos 125-6 (Edward Besly pers comm). The other version has on the obverse: THE BRITISH.GLORY.REVIV.D.BY.ADMIRAL.VERNON. and a half-length figure of Vernon, three-quarters left, h…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Saturday 20th August 2011
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Record ID: CORN-851F46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a silver radiate (antoninianus) of Gordian III (238-244), SAECVLI FELICITAS, mint of Antioch, c.AD 242-243; RIC IV, part III, 216
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-85A672
Object type: POT SHERD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd of a Samian ware vessel, very worn with no slip remaining so that it is difficult to determine whether it was from a plain Samian vessel or not. Roman period.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-85EB43
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy mount, lozenge-shaped in plan and flat in profile, with a central, diamond-shaped openwork and a border of moulded semi-circles. The back of the mount has the bases of three integral lugs surviving. Read (2001) illustrates a similar mount with moulded border on page 35, Fig.20, No.301, and another with similar openwork on page 38, Fig.23, No.339, which are both dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-929E07
Object type: NECKLACE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CORONER'S REPORT Description of Object A broken and distorted component of Roman gold jewellery, probably a necklace link. The fragment comprises a parallel-sided band, made from thin gold sheet, fractured at one end and with a double-eyed fastening loop at the complete end. Following breakage the fragment was bent back on itself, first the looped end then the broken end, the latter resulting in a partial tear. Denting of one rim may have occurred concurrently or subsequent to the ancient damage. The band has a front (outer) face and a back (inner) face. The latter display…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Buryan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-943711
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Silver bodkin, with a round knop mounted above a semi-circular terminal, which contains a circular perforation. About 10 mm along the bodkin from the pierced circle, there is a rectangular eye slot. Below this slot, one side of the bodkin is stamped with a maker's mark in the form of a pomegranate or thistle within a crescent moon. On the opposite side are a series of punched dots (pointille) in the form of the letters 'A' and 'H' (initials), followed by a cross, and the date 1672. These bodkins were used as hair pins to decorate the hair, and the circular perforations were used to su…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Phillack', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-C4B176
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a silver denarius of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14). Obverse legend similar to RIC Vol. 1, Plate 2, No.79b. Obverse similar to BMC Vol. 1, Plate 6, No.8 or No.14. Reverse similar to BMC Vol. 1, Plate 5, No.7.
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C4EC24
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), with rose behind head, Third Issue (1561-77), mintmark eglantine (1573-8), and dated to 1575 on reverse; Spink 2563; North 1997.
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C52645
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut half penny of Henry II (1154-1189), Tealby coinage with cross and crosslets on the reverse (1158-1180), Bust E (c.1168-1170); Spink 1341; North 960, Fig.16
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C54A60
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver damaged cut (half) groat of Henry VIII (1509-1547), Third coinage (1544-1547), Lombardic lettering, Tower mint, Bust 2; Spink 2370; North 1844.
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C57FC7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward III (1327-1377), Third Florin Coinage (1344-1351), Florin Type 4 (Wren, p.86) with reverse-barred Roman 'N' on obverse and reverse, London mint; Spink 1546; North 1116
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C59478
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage (1351-1377), Pre-Treaty period, mintmark Cross I, Series C (1351-52), Standard Type G, with annulet stops, reverse-barred Roman 'N', London mint; Spink 1584; North 1156
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C5AA67
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver radiate of Tetricus I (271-274), possibly VICTORIA AVG
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C5C0B5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axe head of South Wales/Stogursey type. It consists of the moulding at the mouth of the socket and the upper edges of the ribs on the body. The side loop and rest of the mouth and body are missing. The thick moulded collar with a moulded raised parellel ridge below it and multiple ribs, coming off at right angles from the ridge, suggest that this is a Llyn Fawr or Sompting-type axe. The moulding is sub-square in plan, curving at one edge, at the begining of one corner. There are 4 ends of the ribs present, suggesting that the whole face of the …
Created on: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-E6A0E6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver shilling of James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage (1604-1619), Third bust, mintmark lis (1604-1605), Spink 2654; North 2099
Created on: Sunday 24th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-E6BC74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver voided long-cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Class 5b (1251-1272), moneyer Nicole, Canterbury mint; Spink 1368; North 992
Created on: Sunday 24th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-E6CC64
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut farthing of a short-cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Class 7a (1223-1242); Spink 1356A; North 978
Created on: Sunday 24th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-E6E018
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut half penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Fifth Issue (1582-1600), mintmark 'A' (1582-1584), London mint; Spink 2580; North 2017
Created on: Sunday 24th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-E708A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut half of a voided long-cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Class 5b (1251-1272), moneyer Henri, London mint; Spink 1368; North 992
Created on: Sunday 24th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-E719E2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver clipped and cut half of a voided long-cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), broad short face with mouth just above central pellet on chin and no sceptre suggests probably Class 3b (1248-1250), but no legends to confirm; Spink 1363; North 987
Created on: Sunday 24th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-3D25F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver radiate of Postumus (AD 260-269), FELICITAS AVG, Lugdunum, Cunetio 2411, RIC V (ii) 58
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-3DEED0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Base silver radiate dating from the reigns of Gallienus to Allectus, c.AD 260-296. Only an unclear radiate bust right is visible.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2016
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Record ID: CORN-3E4D65
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman sestertius, probably of Faustina I (AD 138-161), dating to the period c.AD 138-140 (Reece period 7). Probably VENERI AVGVSTAE, S C, reverse type depicting Venus standing left holding apple and drawing up robe from shoulder. Mint of Rome. cf. RIC III, no. 1082; BMV IV no. 1123.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 19th August 2020
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Record ID: CORN-3E9D64
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161)
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-3EB0D8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly a brass dupondius, 1st or 2nd century AD, as it was found in association with other Roman coins, but the edges are not corroded as they usually are for this date, and the coin looks potentially milled to the recorder.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-3ED487
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass sestertius of Hadrian (AD 117-138), PONT MAX TRP OT COS III, Rome, c.AD 119-138, BMC III, No.1146
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-51A8A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Aesica-variant brooch with a central disc on the bow and the remains of a fantail beneath it. On the back of this broken and truncated fantail is the top edge of the catchplate. The disc on the middle section of the bow has a central, circular setting with a stud still extant on the back of it. There are also fan-shaped recessed sections emanating out from the central setting, which may have originally held enamel in separate fields. The remains of the crossbar show that is was a hollow tube for the axis, on which the pin is hinged. The axis and the …
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Monday 12th March 2012
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Record ID: CORN-51C1F7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 5, Group 1.b2, The Trumpet Knop, flat wing ends), missing its spring, pin, catchplate and footknob. The head has a beaded crest with plain flanges either side of the head, and moulded oblique lines on the front of each side of the crossbar. Below the crest, the bow tapers towards the foot with moulded cross-grooves and a pair of cross-ribs surrounding a central moulding. The bow is then undecorated beneath this element and the upper edge of the catchplate is just visible, although dama…
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-51CED4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged T-shaped brooch with the remains of some red and yellow enamelled decoration. The enamel is set into a panel of alternating triangular and lozenge shapes running the length of the bow on the upper face. This type and pattern of decoration is similar to Hull's 'Sawfish' brooches, but the sides of the bow do not now have these projections and it is narrower than this type, but consistent with other examples of T-shaped brooches. Half way down the back of the bow are the remains of the attachment edge of the catchplate, and the footknob is plain a…
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-713AA6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Clipped silver penny of Edward IV, Second Reign (1471-1483), Durham mint with D in centre of reverse cross, initial mark missing, but lis to right of neck, North 1660, Type XVb; Spink 2116.
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7167D0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double-looped annular buckle, circular in plan and semi-circular in section. The buckle frame has a bevelled inside edge and the outside edge is decorated with linear notches, spaced every few millimetres along the edge of the frame. The integral central strap bar is narrowed and flush with the frame. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 44, No.251, which is dated to c.1350-1650. Cuddeford (2001) illustrates a more ornate example from Norwich on page 20, No.9, which is dated to the 15th century. Read (1988) illustrates a plain example on pag…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7CC6C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver voided short-cross penny of John (1199-1216), Class 5b2, (c.1204-1209), moneyer Gileberd, Exeter mint, Spink 1351, North 970b
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7CF322
Object type: LITHIC CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint single-platform micro-blade core, oval in plan, sub-rectangular in section and semi-circular in profile, with a deep hinge fracture at the base. All faces around the circumference of the core show the scars from the flake removal for producing microliths, from the layer of cortex at the distal end to the ridged and stepped proximal end. The flint is a mottled grey to brown colour with white speckles and its colour and curvature suggest that has probably come from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 1:1, which is usual for micro cores. Bond (2004) illu…
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7D3934
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast and sheet copper alloy single-looped, D-shaped buckle frame with offset, narrowed bar and recessed plate. The plate is decorated with gilt punched triangles that run together forming a border within the edge of the plate. The gilding only survives at the frame end of the plate. The plate tapers away from the buckle frame and has three rivet holes, but none of the rivets remain. One rivet hole is at the frame end to hold the folded plate at the back around the pin bar with two extensions either side of the pin. The other two rivet holes are side by side at the other end of the plat…
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-7D5157
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead token with the letters 'A H' on the obverse and the letters 'T C' on the reverse. Fletcher (2003) illustrates similar tokens with initials on them on page 31, which are dated to the Medieval period, c.1300-1500.
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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