Record ID: CORN-705307
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An arm of a copper-alloy dagger guard (quillon) of Medieval date (c.1200-1400). The fragment includes the whole of one arm and half of the central rectangular aperture where the dagger blade would have fitted. The other arm has broken off. The arm is circular in section and tapers in width from the central block and then expands to form a terminal which is circular in shape when viewed from the end. It appears that the arm is formed of a core wrapped around by a covering of sheet metal, with an open seam line visible on one face. It is very similar to another example on the database …
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2E16DD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Upper part of a cast copper alloy Roman hinged Cornish Type 31 Aesica-variant brooch inlaid with red enamel triangles and arcs. The brooch is unusually solid and heavy for its small size. The head of the brooch has a u-shaped slot in the top where the pin would have rotated on the axial bar which would have been contained in a hole pierced through the top of the head. The pin and the axial bar are missing. The lower end of the brooch is also missing, as half of an extended triangle of enamel on the lower face is incomplete, but it is not clear how long the brooch was originally. On th…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-2EB5A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy South-western variant of a Roman dolphin brooch with hinged mechanism. Only the bow and one side of the cross bar have survived, but the copper alloy axial spindle is still in place in the cross-bar and part of the hinge of the pin is still visible behind the spindle. The end of the more complete wing is broken and then subsequently bent forward when it was more maleable and the bow is bent and missing sections suggesting that the brooch may have been partially melted in a fire or cremation. The bow is expanded from the head outwards before being stepped i…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-2F0985
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy Roman brooch, with the head, crossbar and foot missing. The bow has a rounded front face, is curved in section with a flat back and is thicker and wider at one end with broken edges on all sides. There is a suggestion of a line across the waist which might be part of a transverse moulding, but no distinguishable decoration above the line. Found close to a Roman Dolphin variant brooch with a similar width in plan and curvature in profile, recorded in CORN-2EB5A6, but there is not enough of the brooch remaining to suggest that they might have once been worn as…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-3159DC
Object type: LATCHLIFTER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An cast copper alloy oval plate with a smooth flat upper surface and one slightly flattened end, ressembling the thumb piece on a latch. The underside of the disc has a square section peg, 4 mm thick and 10 mm long, descending from the centre of the flattened end and a pivot mechanism in the centre of the disc. The pivot mechanism is a semi-circular disc with a hole through the middle where the axial pin would have gone, held in place on either side of the pivot with thin sheets of metal, now largely broken away. The remainder of the iron pin is still visible in the hole in the pivot …
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-23A25B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman radiate of Postumus (AD 260-269), Reece Period 13, SAECVLI FELICITAS reverse type depicting emperor standing right , holding transverse spear in right hand and globe in left hand. Mint either Lugdunum (Lyon) or Cologne. Cf. Cunetio p.145, pl.27, no.2444; RIC V (ii) pp.344 & 363, nos.83 & 325.
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-7D0D4A
Object type: STUD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy stud, lozenge shaped in plan and plano-convex in profile, with an integral square section shank in the centre of the back with the point broken off. The length of the remaining shank is 5 mm. The face of the stud is decorated with a moulded multi-petalled flower surrounded by a twisted rope moulding around the edge and a small knop in each corner. Read (2001) illustrates several examples which are similar but not identical on p.32, fig.17, nos.251-252, which are dated from the 15th to the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-7F21F7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Post-medieval asymmetrical strap fitting dating from c.1600-1700. The mount consists of a convex cordate (heart-shaped) plate which is surmounted by a fleur-de-lys shaped terminal consisting of two lobes flanking a central elongated knop. Either lobe features an off centre circular aperture that is 3 mm in diameter. The reverse is concave, with the stubs of two integral pointed lugs projecting from the reverse to a height of 2 mm, each seated on a small round blob of metal. The overall shape of the mount is reminiscent of the Merovingian bee motif, where the heart …
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-7F8AB3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a copper alloy spectacle buckle, with one loop of the buckle broken off. Flat in section, the buckle has a simple stylised design of a rosette cast in low relief at each end of the strap bar and in the centre of the outer edge of the remaining loop and a triangular knop midway along either side of the loop and at the end of the buckle. The buckle has patches of tinning remaining on the surface. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a very similar buckle on page 66, no.410 which is dated from c.1550-1650.
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-804DD9
Object type: FLESH HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy handle for a tool or kitchen implement, probably something like a skimmer which used to collect solid foods from stews. It consists of a flat piece of sheet metal rounded at the broken end to form a socket and flattened at the other end to form a thumb grip with a perforation that is 3 mm in diameter in the centre of the rounded terminal, probably for suspension near the fire. Past the thumb grip the metal is bent round into a tube, now spilt open and bent, with the end of the object broken off. The diameter of the tube is approximately 12 mm, but it may have opened up …
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 12th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-0F2851
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy, double loop, spectacle buckle dating from the early Post-Medieval period, c.1500-1650. The frame has two oval loops angled at each end and a small, ovoid knop at each end of the strap bar. The upper surface of the buckle is slightly rounded and the underside is flat with an impressed groove around the outer part of the frame. There is no decoration. The pin is missing. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle on p.55, no.314, which is dated from c.1500-1650.
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-101C31
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy figurine of Cupid or a putto (without wings) dating from the Roman period (c.AD 43-410) reclining on his side and holding out a cup in his right hand, as if at a banquet. The subject suggests that this was a mount on a vessel for serving wine. The figurine is three-dimensional, lying on one side with the left leg drawn up and the other extended (the lower part of this leg is missing) with the head pillowed on the left arm and the other arm extended down across the body holding a shallow rounded bowl or cup. The features are of a child, and although the item is now c…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-10BEAB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver cut half of a voided long cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Long cross coinage (1247-1272), Class IIIc (1248-1250) with short beard and pellet-footed 'R'. The obverse inscription begins at 12 o'clock, which indicates that the class belongs to I-III, and on the reverse the inscription reads [A]SO/NG/, which suggests that the moneyer was Lucas (Class IIb-IIIc) and the mint Gloucester. The full inscription would therefore have read LVC/ASO/NG/LOV.
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-1287FD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver half groat of Richard II (1377-1399), Type II with new lettering and no French title. London mint. Spink 1682
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-12E0A7
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead papal bulla of Pope Urban IV (1261-1264). The obverse has a pelleted border, and has the raised letters in three lines: VR / BANVS / PP IIII. PP stands for 'pastor pastorum'. The reverse has a pelleted border surrounding two bearded heads each enclosed in an elipse of pellets, either side of a cruciform sword. The heads represent Saints Peter and Paul, indicated by the abreciations SPA and SPE above the heads. A bulla such as this would serve to seal and authenticate papal documents. It was found between Callington and St. Dominic. The church of St. Dominic (named after the Iri…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-36F1F7
Object type: DOOR FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy door knocker, Georgian (1714-1830) in date. The knocker expands in plan to the base, which swells to an ovoid knop on top with two circular lugs on either side, which acted as the handle for the knocker. In profile the knocker curves outwards to form a scroll, typical of Georgian decoration. The knocker is only a third of what it once was, from parallels seen on-line, and would have continued to taper and then terminated in a scroll back on itself with lugs either side as part of the pivot and hinge which was mounted on to the door. The surface of the k…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Sunday 7th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-377A6D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete cast tinned copper alloy buckle of Post-medieval date c.1660 to1720. The buckle is a two-piece trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle, slightly convex in profile and D-shaped in section, with a rounded outer edge and an internal steeply bevelled edge. The frame is drilled for a separate spindle, now missing. There is iron oxide where the spindle holes are suggesting that the spindle was made of iron. The buckle is crisply moulded with the outer edge of each loop carinated in section with no provision for a pin rest. The sides are bifid with scrolled knops around the spindle hole…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Sunday 7th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-37DF64
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third and Fourth Issue, eglantine initial mark (1573-1578) dated to 1574 on the reverse, creased and cracked half way across the middle. London (Tower) mint. Larger bust 5A, Spink 2563.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-3884A9
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy dress fastener, the 'eye' section into which the hook would have fitted. The fastener is flat with an octagonal central plate with a trefoil extension at one end and the remains of the eye, now broken off, at the other end, leaving only the stubs of the rectangular frame of the eye. The fastener is decorated with a shallow moulded floral motif of an eight-petalled flower in the centre and curlicues above and below within a slightly raised linear frame. There are three holes for attachment, all 2 mm in diameter: one at the top of the trefoil and two more on…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-3A0B51
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver hammered long cross penny of Edward II (1307-27), Class 10cf3 (1307-1309) with letters 'A' and 'N' with exaggerated serifs (Wood, 1989, p.44). The coin is very worn, but the letter N in ANGL on the obverse appears directly below the point where the two wedges of the drapery meet at the base of the neck, a feature which only appears from the issue of Class 10 onwards. The central fleur of the crown is also very tall, which suggests Class 10cf3 (Withers, 2006, p.36, crown 3).
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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