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-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-263BE3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Double sheet copper-alloy strap end with bent sides in the form of a shield in plan with a lobed knop extension at the terminal end. The face plate is incised with the letters IHS with a line above that follows the form of the knopped end. All this is within an incised border which follows the edge of the plate and is emphasised by six diagonal marks on either side if the lettering. The back plate has keyhole-shaped openwork surrounded by four rivets in four rivet holes in each corner. There are no remains of the leather strap between the two sheets of copper alloy that make up the str…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: CORN-2619B8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Double sheet copper-alloy strap end with bent sides in the form of a shield in plan with a lobed knop extension at the terminal end. The face plate is incised with the letters IHS with a line above that follows the form of the knopped end. All this is within an incised border which follows the edge of the plate and is emphasised by six diagonal marks on either side if the lettering. The back plate has keyhole-shaped openwork surrounded by four rivets in four rivet holes in each corner. Remains of the leather strap can be seen between the two sheets of copper alloy that make up the stra…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: CORN-B82D05
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy multifoil, umbonate, lozenge-shaped mount with four integral pointed lugs behind each of the four points of the lozenge. Each of these four knops is in the form of a trefoil and one has a suspension loop attached to it. The central lozenge-shaped boss is surrounded by four openworked trefoils, which alternate with four knops that are each punched with a quatrefoil or four annulets. Read (2001) illustrates part of a very similar mount on page 38, no. 340, which comes from northwest Dorset and is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
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Record ID: CORN-D72EF2
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy socketed side-looped spearhead with a plain short kite-shaped blade with a lozenge cross section and slightly channelled blade faces (Matt Knight pers comm). The blade is 33 mm long and expands to a width of 20.5 mm, with a bevelled edge that is 3 mm wide at the widest point of the blade. Below the blade on each side of the socket there is a side loop for binding the spearhead to the spear shaft. The side loops are lozenge-shaped in profile and are 16 mm long, 8 mm wide and 2 mm thick. The socket is circular in section and has an internal diameter of 14 mm and an exte…
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-F8A740
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt, cast copper alloy hollow-ended strapend or belt mount for a scabbard. This has zoomorphic terminal in the form of a beast's head. The beast's head has perforated nostrils and engraved eyes, snout, and hair, beyond moulded brows and parted by a central ridge of spikes. Behind the head, in the centre of the strapend, is a diamond shaped plate, splitting the hair of the beast in two so that is draped either side of the diamond. Incised on the upper surface of the cube is the letter 'S', which could stand for 'souveniez moi' or 'sancta'. Beyond the cub…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 20th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-3367F7
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy socketed ferrule of a triangular basal-looped spearhead with the remains of the base of the loops on either side of the broken ferrule. Beyond these protrusions there are on either side about 10 mm of the base of the blade in the form of a slight ridge. The blades would have been leaf-shaped and bevelled. The ferrule has a long hollow socket which is circular in section and tapers towards the broken blade end. The opposite end of the socket is also damaged but the surface of the ferrule is in good condition, having a rich green shiny patina. Similar examples can be fo…
Created on: Friday 17th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-740B97
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy leaf-shaped spearhead with broken blade and broken tapering socket, triangular in plan and oval in section. There is a hole in the side of the socket below the blade but this is not a peg hole or the remains of a side-loop, but the result of corrosion. There does appear to be a curved edge on one side of the socket at the edge of the break, which may be part of a peg hole, in which case it may date from the Penard phase (c.1250-1125 BC) which is at the end of the Middle Bronze Age and has some transitional artefacts, such as early pegged spearheads, or the …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-4C3576
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy skillet or posnet foot, in the form of a 'hoof' with a worn central longitudinal rib. The foot is trapezoidal in plan, rhomboidal in profile and plano-convex in section with a tapering broken upper edge which suggests a thin leg for a small vessel. The break is below what would have been a wider transverse collar before tapering again and extending into the leg. There are patches of black organic material still adhering to the surface of the leg, which were burnt on when the skillet was standing near the fire. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate a s…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: CORN-52AE0A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim fragment from a cast copper alloy cauldron. The fragment is 75 mm in width, 41 mm in height and 3.5 mm thick, widening to 6 mm thick at the rim and a weight of 57.3 g. The rim is out-turned and bevelled on its inner edge with the upper face flat, so that it is triangular in section. The curvature of the rim suggests that it would have been 280 mm in diameter which falls comfortably within the normal range for a cauldron and suggests a vessel with a capacity of between 4½ and 6 gallons. The exterior surface is rough and has patches of black burnt organic matter encrusted on…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: CORN-C992FB
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy leg and foot from a cauldron. The leg and foot are rectangular in plan, triangular in profile and plano-convex in section with a flat back. The base of the foot is no longer flat but has several cavities where it has worn away through use. There are three rounded ribs, the central one widest at 11 mm, running parallel to each other from the broken upper edge of the leg to the transverse collar above the foot. Below the collar the foot expands and is everted outwards at a 45 degree angle and continues the three toes or claws with the central one again most p…
Created on: Sunday 22nd April 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: CORN-46DD93
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The foot of a cast copper-alloy cauldron leg, with a short remnant of the cauldron leg attached, 43.5 mm long, 37 mm wide; the thickness of the leg is 11.5 mm and the maximum thickness of the tapered foot 17.5 mm and its weight is 178.9 gm. The short remnant of the leg is parallel-sided with a flat back, and the front face is decorated with four moulded parallel ribs. The out-turned foot is flat-bottomed and its angle with the back face of the leg is about 110 degrees. The front of the foot is decorated with three parallel ribs, the ends of which taper and extend as points beyond the f…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: CORN-23428A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper-alloy cauldron rim. Trapezoidal in plan, 50 mm long, 29.5 mm in width, 4.5 mm thick and 34 g in weight. All edges of the fragment are broken but there is an abrupt change of angle of around 45 degrees across it indicating that it is from the junction of the body with the out-turned rim of the vessel. The curve of the fragment suggests a large vessel with a diameter of around 300 mm, with a possible capacity of 3 gallons. Cauldrons with sharply out-turned rims were widespread and common in the 17th century. Butler and Green (2003) illustrate many cauldrons fro…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: CORN-0EA543
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment from the body of a cauldron. All of the edges are broken and uneven and the shallow curve of the wall suggests a large cauldron with a diameter of about 380 mm, that might hold about 7 gallons. The interior of the fragment is smooth and unencrusted. Much of the exterior is covered in a layer of burnt organic matter but has a very fine granular texture, suggesting a date of manufacture of the end of the 17th century, or later. Across the outer surface of fragment is a raised decorative band or 'wire' in the casting, that is 3 mm wide. Below this is an elo…
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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