Record ID: CORN-89CFEC
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy purse bar with a central boss that is square in profile but more ovoid in plan with convex faces and straight sides which narrow to the arms. One face of the boss is decorated with niello cross-hatching and the other face has radiating lines in the form of a star. The boss has been drilled and fitted with a swivelling suspension loop that would have been circular in profile but is now broken, showing the arms are hemispherical in section. The boss tapers to zoomorphic heads on either side which look like beasts gripping the extended side arms in their mouths…
Created on: Sunday 12th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2018
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Record ID: CORN-64CDC9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with an English inscription around the interior and the exterior of the hoop, and inscriptions on the both of the flattened edges of the hoop. The letters are in Roman capitals, with crosses between each word on the hoop and an 'x' between each word on the edges of the ring. The phrases are in four lines. The interior of the hoop has a cross pattee at the start of the inscription: + I + AM + YOUR + OVNE The exterior of the hoop follows with: + AND + WILL + BE + EVER One raised and flattened edge then has, after another cross pattee: + DEPART x WHEN x YOU …
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 15th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bodmin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-0112B7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Hollow silver button, circular in plan and hemi-spherical in profile, with a forged attachment loop that has been soldered on to the back of the domed section, and a flat sheet plate that has been soldered on to the front. This plate or face is incised with the lombardic letter 'T' with a curved cross-bar and a curled, snake-like body spiraling to a trefoil terminal, which has been inlaid with niello or silver oxide. The closest parallel to the style of the lombardic letter 'T' is on a signet ring illustrated in Salisbury Museum Catalogue, Part 1, on page 46, Fig.12, No.21, which i…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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Record ID: CORN-C57246
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, with decorative silver wire and niello inlay of Anglo-Scandinavian inspiration. The mount is very worn and the inlay only survives in patches. Below the apex rivet is a pendent lobe, while at the base a union knot probably links a pair of opposed spirals which are utilised by the pair of rivet holes. Centrally is a knot within a wide ribbon-like strip which may be the body of a snake-like beast whose head is otherwise worn away. A corroded iron rivet survives within the apex hole and obscures the decoration. One of the other i…
Created on: Sunday 7th December 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-FA0676
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt pendant with ornate cherub and foliage detail, and niello inlay, surrounding settings with five emeralds, three rubies, two citrine quartz, and an amethyst in the centre, with two settings missing their stones. The attachment loop at the top of the pendant has been damaged and is missing, and there are two small suspension loops at the bottom of the pendant, below each emerald, which would have had drop pendants attached, perhaps pendant pearls. 19th century German copy
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.