Record ID: NLM-3329B8
Object type: STUD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and Iron with enamel stud. Cast copper alloy bead of flattened spherical form with an aperture of diameter 8.5mm. Relief decoration comprises three kidney or comma shaped swirls, each with a central and deeply recessed (circa 1.2mm+) setting of diameter 3.5mm, containing relict enamel now of a discoloured light tan hue. These features are separated by single pellets. The corroded remnant of an iron shank protrudes from both sides of the bead. Thickly coated in Vaseline, which has infiltrated negative features. Suggested date: Late Iron Age, 300 BC-AD 100. Diameter: 1…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-331630
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Nummus of the House of Constantine (306-361), probably a copy of a Gloria Exercitus issue of 335-340, Reece period 17 Obverse description: Diademed bust cuirassed right. No discernible legend. Reverse description: two soldiers with one standard between them. Reverse inscription: [GLORIA EXERCITVS] probably blundered Diameter: 12.5mm, Weight: 0.97gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-32F114
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and lead vessel mount. Cast circular mount, of concavo-convex form; the concave side is shaped to fit against a curved surface. The display face bears a central floral motif, probably a rose with two layers of petals, with further relief features providing an intermittent rim or frame. The back is probably filled with lead; across this is laid a flat sub-rectangular sheet of copper alloy which protrudes slightly where it crosses the edge of the object. Suggested date: probably Roman, 40-400. Diameter: 23.2mm, Thickness: 5.8mm, Weight: 11.44gms.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-32A7B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Probably a halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), dated 1566. Obverse description: Bust left, rose behind head. Obverse inscription: [--G'.AN.'E[--]REGI[--] Reverse description: Shield of Arms of England and France, long cross, date above shield. Reverse inscription: [--]OSVI/DEVAD/[--] Diameter: 19.1mm, Weight: 1.26gms, die axis: probably 7
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-329AE3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Composite button of plano-convex form. The front depicts a plume of three feathers with scroll beneath, the emblem of the Prince of Wales, and a five petalled rose. A circumferential legend includes the letters: [---]AS[--]YEO[--], and an indistinct stamped maker's name appears on the back. The loop is lost. The legend probably denotes a county yeomanry regiment of mounted volunteer soldiers, as were raised in the face of a perceived military threat from later 19th-century France. Suggested date: Modern, 1860-1900. Diameter: 18.5, Thickness: 6.5mm, Weight: 1.61gms
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-328D66
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Discoid concavo-convex button with a livery style motif depicting a plough within a prominent rim. A drawn wire loop is retained on the back. Suggested date: Modern, 1840-1860. Diameter: 15.9mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 1.4mm, Weight: 2.23gms.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-3276E4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Penny of Edward II (1307-1327), class 10cf, issue of 1307-1310 Obverse description: Facing bust with bifoliate crown with spearheads, smiling, with drapery of angled wedges. Initial cross pattee. Obverse inscription: +EDWA R ANGL DNS hYB Reverse description: Long cross, three pellets in each angle. Reverse inscription: CIVI/TAS/LON/DON Diameter: 18.7mm, Weight: 1.32gms, die axis: 7
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-326B95
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dress hook (probably). Cast sub-rectangular loop and openwork plate, both of a form similar to that of an early post-medieval hooked tag. The plate comprises a central pentagonal boss with dished centre and with a pair of pellets at its junction with the loop, flanked by two angled arms. There is no hook and no clear sign of a break to mark its loss, so this may be a contemporary object in similar style but serving a different function. Rob Webley kindly comments as follows: I agree that this looks close enough to dress hooks to go down as such. Specifically, Read no…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-325F97
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sword belt toggle. Cast object with a tapering moulded lentoid concavo-convex body bearing two prominent transverse ridges and a lesser ridge towards its terminal. The uppermost ridge forms part of a collar below two conjoined rings; a third ring has been lost. The largest ring has the remnants of a heavily worn openwork design, now surviving as an irregular trilobate aperture. A pair of drilled holes of diameter 2mm appear on the centre line, with ferrous concretion behind the upper hole, presumably related to attachment. Helen Geake kindly comments that this object is o…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-325247
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Radiate or nummus indeterminate, issue of 260-400. Though bearing surface irregularities on both sides, no firm identification of obverse and reverse sides proved possible. Suggested date: late Roman, 260-400. Diameter: 16.6mm, Weight: 0.96gms
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-324082
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Radiate indeterminate, probably issue of 260-275, Reece period 13. Obverse description: radiate head right. Obverse inscription: [--]AVG Reverse description: Possibly an altar. Reverse inscription: [--]?O?SECVRIT[AS AVG] Diameter: 16.8mm, Weight: 2.17gms, die axis: probably 6
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-322931
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Nummus of House of Constantine, Gloria Exercitus issue of 330-335, Reece period 17 Obverse description; Head diademed right. Obverse inscription: [--]VS [?PF?] AVG Reverse description: two soldiers with two standards between them. Reverse inscription: [GLORI-]A EXERCITVS Diameter: 15.7mm, Weight: 1.20gms, die axis: 12
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-321A20
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coin. Nummus, probably of House of Valentinian, Securitas Rei Publicae issue of 364-378, Reece period 19. Obverse description: Bust diademed right. Reverse description: Possibly Victory advancing left. Reverse inscription: [SECVRITAS REI PVBLICAE] Diameter: 15.1mm, Weight: 0.94gms, die Axis: possibly 12
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-320A66
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Nummus of House of Valentinian, Securitas Rei Publicae issue of 364-378, Reece period 19. Obverse description: Head diademed right. Reverse description: Victory advancing left with wreath. Reverse inscription: [SECVRITAS] REI P[VBLICAE] Diameter: 16.0mm, Weight: 1.57gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-31F706
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Nummus of House of Constantine (306-361), possibly of Constantine II (317-340) though obverse legend may forbid this, Caesarum Nostrorum issue of 321-324, Reece period 16. Obverse description: Head laureate right. Obverse inscription: CONSTA[--]NVS[--] CAES Reverse description: Vow in wreath enclosing legend VOT / V Reverse inscription: CAE[SARVM N]OS[TROR]V[M] In exergue: BTR Diameter: 17.9mm, Weight: 1.86gms, die axis: 11
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-31E342
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Radiate of an indeterminate ruler, probably issue of 260-275, Reece period 13. Obverse description: Radiate bust cuirassed right. Legend indistinct. Reverse description: Standing draped female figure, possibly Victory holding wreath left. Diameter (long axis of oval flan): 19.7mm, Weight: 3.41gms, die axis: probably 6
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-31D891
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy tweezers. A cut and bent strip of sheet metal flared at its ends, more markedly on one side than the other, where the sheet reaches its minimum thickness of circa 0.8mm. The upper side edges are rounded, though whether as an aspect of manufacture or through wear in use is uncertain. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 40-1500. Length: 34.0mm, Width:10.4mm, Thickness (at top): 1.4mm, Weight: 3.04gms.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-31CB12
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy probable token. Cast disc with a six pointed star or petalled motif in relief; the back is flat. This design does not appear among various groups of Roman game counters reported elsewhere, but the form and cast manufacture resembles that of dole tokens issued by medieval religious houses. Patinated overall. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1500. Diameter: 24.7mm, Thickness: 2.6mm, Weight: 9.02gms.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-31BBC7
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy barrel padlock fragment. Cast cylinder with faceted sides, probably octagonal. A plate at one end bears the remains of a cruciform keyhole, broadened by wear. At the other end there remains a heavily worn plate through which leaf springs passed when the lock was closed. An arm rises above it from the body of the case, surmounted by a smaller knopped lug. A drilled hole of diameter 4mm at the base of the arm was probably to attach the lock, possibly with a light chain (lost) passing through this and a further ragged aperture on the underside of the barrel. Decoration compr…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-319C96
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable finger ring. Ring, of ovoid section, with surface irregularities suggesting a cast strip was wrapped around a former and beaten to annular form. Possibly a recent 'Fairing' or trinket; the surface is without patination.Suggested date: Modern, 1800-1900. Internal diameter: 17.8mm, Band Width: 1.4mm, Band Thickness: 1.9mm, Weight: 0.80gms.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.