[{"id": 145441, "created": "2020-08-06T13:01:34.770570", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 85204, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-08-06T13:14:15.761426", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "? SX 201;544} Five Barrow Field", "Site": "CORNWALL;PELYNT;? Barrow", "CollHist": "Royal Inst. Cornwall, Truro\r\nHistory\r\nSaid to have been presented by Jonathan Couch.\r\nNo date known. But between 1846-1871", "Contents": "(1) Hilt fragment of a sword with square shoulders and flanged hilt. One rivet-hole remains.", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 3.6.83.", "ContextType": "9. UNDOCUMENTED ?", "BiblioSources": "(a) Borlase MSS (bound into a folio volume of notes and drawings in the Royal Inst. of Cornwall, Truro.)\r\n(b) Childe (1951) 95\r\n(c) Wailes (1957-58) 28\r\n(d) Branigan (1970) 89-107\r\n(e) Macnamara (1973) 19-23", "Circumstances": "Not recorded. The sword-hilt (1) in Truro Museum is said to have been presented by Jonathan Couch. There is no record of the date of accession but it must have been after 1845, when Couch published his account of the Pelynt Barrows. (R.R.I.C. 33). It was not included in Couch's list of Cornish finds. It was in the Truro Collection in 1871. Ref (a), in a list of antiquities dated March 1871 records \"a brazen spearhead\" (his N\u00b0 27) from Pelynt, presented by Jonathan Couch, with a sketch of the sword-hilt (1). Borlase, however, did not mention this object in his Naenia Cornubiae (1872). Reference (e) quotes a letter dated 1923 from Mr Penrose (then Curator of Truro Museum) of which a copy is preserved in the Museum together with a drawing of the sword-hilt, signed by Mr Penrose, upon which he wrote that the object came from a barrow at Pelynt, and that it had been given by Jonathan Couch. Reference (b) was the first to recognise - and publish - the sword hilt as an Aegean import, but was mistaken in assuming that it was among the finds recorded as being found at Pelynt before 1845. Reference (e) quotes the various authorities' views about the dating of the sword-hilt and supports (d)'s arguments for a LH III B date. (1300-1220 BC)\r\nUnprovenanced but not more so than many other BA \"Associations\".", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 147810, "created": "2020-09-12T00:28:38.359196", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 85204, "user_id": 658, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-09-12T00:48:09.212947", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "?SX 201 544 } Five Barrow Field", "Site": "Cornwall, Pelynt, ?Barrow", "CollHist": "Collection:\r\nRoyal Inst. Cornwall, Truro\r\n\r\nHistory: \r\nSaid to have been presented by Jonathon Couch.\r\nNo date known. But between 1846-1871.", "Contents": "(1) Hilt fragment of a sword with square shoulders and flanged hilt. One rivet-hole remains.", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec.: S.H. 3.6.83", "ContextType": "9. Undocumented?", "BiblioSources": "(a) \"Borlase MSS\" (bound into a folio volume of notes and drawings in the Royal Inst. of Cornwall, Truro.)\r\n(b) Childe (1951) 95\r\n(c) Wailes (1957-58) 28\r\n(d) Branigan (1970) 89-107\r\n(e) Macnamara (1973) 19-23", "Circumstances": "     Not recorded. The sword-hilt (1) in Truro Museum is said to have been presented by Jonathon Couch. There is no record of the date of accession, but it must have been after 1845, when Couch published his account of the Pelynt barrows. (R.R.I.C. 33). It was not included in Couch's list of Cornish finds. It was in the Truro Collectioln in 1871. Ref. (a), in a list of antiquities ddated March 1871, records \"a brazen spearhead\" (his No. 27) from Pelynt, presented by Jonathon Couch, with a sketch of the sword-hilt (1). Borlase, however, did not mention this object in his \"Naeoria Cornubiae\" (1872). Reference (e) quotes a letter dated 1923 from Mr. Penrose (then Curator of Truro Museum), of which a copy is preserved in the Museum together with a drawing of the sword-hilt, signed by Mr. Penrose, upon which he wrote that the object came from a barrow at Pelynt, and that it had been given by Jonathon Couch. Reference (b) was the first to recognise - and publish - the sword-hilt as an Aegean import, but was mistaken in assuming that it was among the finds recorded as being found at Pelynt before 1845. Reference (e) quotes the various authorities' views about the dating of the sword-hilt and supports (d)'s arguments for a LHIIIB date. (1300-1220 BC).\r\nUnprovenanced but not more so than many other BA \"associations\".", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]