Record ID: CORN-6048B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged T-shaped brooch with ribbed and knurled cylindrical crossbar with the remains of the hinge in the centre of the back of the head. The head of the bow has a central crest that is semi-circular in profile and protrudes above the arch of the bow and the crossbar. Where the head meets the crossbar, there is a border of moulded rectangular ribs defined by oblique lines on either side which taper to meet at a point just in front of the hinge. The sides of the bow are also ribbed with oblique incised lines on either side of a central knurled band of o…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: CORN-865ED2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt cast copper alloy circular pendant with only the base remaining of its integral suspension loop at the upper apex. The back of the pendant is flat and plain while the face is moulded in low relief with a central device of a standing eagle, head looking left, with wings outstretched. A circular pelleted border separates this design from a circumferential legend, which starts at 12 o'clock, and extends clockwise and reads *IE SV ICI EN LVI D AMI or 'I am here in place of a friend'. A similar object is described from the Ashmolean Museum (Clark ed. 1995, 63). It is argued…
Created on: Sunday 27th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: CORN-37CA1E
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt cast copper alloy circular pendant with an integral perpendicular suspension loop with an aperture that is 1.5 mm in diameter. The back of the pendant is flat and plain while the face is moulded in low relief with a central device of a standing eagle, head looking left, with wings outstretched. A circular pelleted border separates this design from a circumferential legend, which starts at 12 o'clock, and extends clockwise and reads *IE SV ICI EN LVI D AMI or 'I am here in place of a friend'. A similar object is described from the Ashmolean Museum (Clark ed. 1995, 63). …
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: CORN-6526F8
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy pendant of medieval date, possibly a harness pendant. The circular pendant has an integral perpendicular suspension loop, mostly now missing, but would have been teardrop-shaped and would have protruded forwards from the pendant. It has been bent slightly to one side as a result of old damage. The lower surface of the pendant is flat and plain. The upper surface is moulded in low relief. Within a broadly circular pelleted border is the device of an eagle facing with head left. Around, also within a border, is an inscription: '* IE SV ICI EN LVI D AMI' ('…
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2006
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: CORN-EC4364
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Guiraud Type 3d Roman ring with circular bezel that still retains a layer of decomposed enamel, which is now pitted and pale, within the recessed setting. The shoulder of the hoop has raised transverse collars on either side of the bezel which then taper to waisted bands and expand again to the same width with four incised oblique lines on both exteriors of the hoop. The hoop is D-shaped in section and appears to have a casting seam running along the inside of the ring, parallel to its edge. The ring is small and may have been meant for a child.  Other example…
Created on: Monday 28th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-3E886F
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gold ingot, rectangular in plan and rhomboidal in profile, and plano-convex in section. The ingot has been cast and then forged or hammered on two sides. The porosity seen in section at one end is created by the casting and then the ingot has been hit once it was cooled and this end section has cracked away. The opposite end has been sheared off with a blunt 'cold' chisel which has caused the end to expand slightly. So this piece may have come from a longer strip which was used and this fragment kept for future use or left to be melted down in a crucible. From the analys…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Just', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-726A73
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The butt end of a broken Neolithic stone axehead. Although the end of the blade is missing the face of the axehead appears to be a narrow symmetrical ovate (FS02) with a thin asymmetrical profile (classification P04) and a narrow oval section (classification CS09). The butt end has been damaged by the removal, possibly deliberate, of at least one linear flake at the end but is rounded in plan and appears also to be rounded in profile (classification B11). The axe was broken in antiquity so that perhaps half of its original length, including the cutting edge, is missing. The axe was the…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-765634
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete weathered and altered gabbro axehead with what appears to be hornblende vein inclusions. The butt end of the axehead is formed and has survived and the blade end has been damaged through use and resharpened. The axe is also slightly waisted along its length showing wear from being bound to a wooden haft. Since deposition the axehead has been struck by the plough which has left several gashes to the surface on the ventral face, while the dorsal face remains unfinished and retains the original surface of the cobble that it was derived from. The face sh…
Created on: Thursday 9th July 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-095EBE
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a Neolithic greenstone axe. The face of the axe has straight parallel sides (TIP classification FS04) and a symmetrical, gently curving, convex cutting edge (ES02) with a symmetrical blade section BS10). It is symmetrical in profile (P02) and oval in cross section (CS05). The butt of the axe is missing and it is difficult to accurately assess the original length of the axe which must, however, have been at lest twice its present length. The surfaces are worn and slightly pitted through weathering but it is clear that the axe was carefully ground to its present shape. T…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-71FA0B
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. About a sixth of the original tool survives, the blade end, while the rest of the blade and the longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted is missing. The adze may have originally been about six times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle.The face of the implement appears to be oval in shape (TIP classification FS02) where it expands beyond the blade edge but would have then tapered towards the butt end, although its fragmentary nature makes it difficult t…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-71E176
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. The fragment represents less than half of the adze with the original length up to three times longer, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle attached to the opposite butt end.The adze appears to have straight parallel sides but it would have tapered towards the butt end (TIP classification FS07), an asymmetrical (plano-convex) profile of medium thickness (classification P05) and plano-convex in cross-section (classification CS16) with a curved, asymmetrical edge shape (ES05) and …
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-3FFD97
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete greenstone axehead with the blade half of the axehead surviving and the butt end missing, dating from the Neolithic period. The blade is 63 mm in length, 68 mm in width, 25 mm in thickness and weighs 173 g. The axe has straight, parallel sides (type FS04) and a cutting edge which is gently curved and slightly asymmetrical (type ES03) in plan and the broken end is a narrow oval in cross section (type CS09). Its profile is symmetrical and medium in thickness (type P02). The blade section is also of a symmetrical type (BS10). The butt end of the axe is missing, together with at…
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-888714
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete coarse-grained gabbroic greenstone axehead which is a typical torpedo shape that is formed of the local Group I type rock (Mik Markham pers comm). The surface of the axehead is pitted where the gabbro has weathered and rotted out of the axehead from lying in groundwater since deposition. The axehead has been utilised and then disposed of. A flake (39 x 25 mm) has come off the ventral face of the blade end during use but the butt end is missing a section (26 x 12 mm) from the dorsal face which has been struck and has broken off since deposition. The face shape has taperi…
Created on: Sunday 28th June 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-E94802
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The butt end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. The fragment is 90 mm in length, 62.5 mm in width at its broken edge, tapering to 24 mm close to the butt end, 34.5 mm in thickness and 270.9 g in weight which represents approximately half the length of the original implement. The adze is sub-triangular in plan (TIP classification FS09), asymmetrical (isosceles right triangle) in profile (classification P04) and plano-convex in cross-section (classification CS16). The butt shape is rounded in plan and profile (classification BU11). The asymmetrical profile and plano-convex section suggest…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-157EAD
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet gold hollow annular bead, circular in plan and slightly biconical in profile, but crushed since deposition so that its original form is unclear. The central circular piercing is 4 mm in diameter and the edges of the sheet are open to the inner aperture, but would have originally met and have been forced open from subsequent damage. See HAMP-72E451​​​​​ (2011 T526) for a similar annular sheet gold bead with a shallow biconical profile, from Buriton, Hampshire, and ESS-E87773 (2005 T150) from Harlow, Essex (Treasure Annual Report 2005/6, p.17, no.6), which are both dated…
Created on: Tuesday 25th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gweek', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-DE5F35
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring, D-shaped in section, inscribed on the inside of the hoop with the words in seriffed italics that are a mixture of upper and lower case with each word apart from the last having a capital at the beginning: Lett Vertue Bee Yor guid There is a posy ring in the British Museum collection (AF.1322; Dalton 1912, no. 1241) with the inscription: Lett vertue be thy guide Another posy ring is recorded in DEV-7A936B with the same spelling of bee, but as part of the inscription Lett thy love bee as mine to thee, and with a similar script, featuring the same inwards curving "f…
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Liskeard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-32D017
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy terminal (foot) from a linch pin of hoof-shaped foot terminal type. The terminal face is circular, 14 mm in diameter, with in a raised oval border, 21 mm in length. The face is decorated with two central circular motifs, 6 mm in diameter, consisting of a pellet within a crescentic circle on its side. The two circles mirror each other with the thinnest aspect on the inside edge, 0.4 mm in thickness, either side of the central line. (For a similar pattern of decoration, see SF-F0F267 from Suffolk.) Behind these raised areas of decoration, the background is plain bu…
Created on: Friday 29th January 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-93F4DA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy appliqué figurative mount in the form of a reclining Medieval knight dressed in armour, hooded mail and a layered tunic. The figure is lying on his right side, resting his head on his bent right arm as he looks upwards. His left arm is also bent with his hand on his hip. His legs are crossed right over left at the ankles. He has a collar made of multiple oblique transverse grooves which represent the mail, and mouldings on his arms and legs for the joints in the armour. He also has a sash at the waist with three raised ribs on either side which gather in the ce…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-225F65
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast pewter pilgrim's badge in the form of a crucifix with the raised letters 'INRI' on a rhomboidal sign on the limb above the head of Christ, wearing a crown with trefoils emanating from each cusp. The head of Christ has the beginnings of a forked beard which was fashionable around 1440, as seen on another pilgrim badge depicting the crucified Christ, illustrated in the Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 4 on page 303, Fig.76, No.254 (Spencer in Saunders, 2012). There is only one complete right limb of the cross remaining, but broken in to two fragments, …
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-592A15
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd made of coarse admixture clay. The fabric has fine inclusions of pale felspars and mica, and additional larger inclusions such as quartz not natural to the clay to make it an admixture. The colour is mid-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd. This type of admixture fabric is seen in Bronze Age vessels, dating from c.2100-1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Created on: Sunday 29th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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