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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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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