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Record ID: SOM-7A5F63
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead powder charger cap of probable seventeenth century date. The cap is squashed but originally circular with an open end and flat top. There are two loops set opposite each other on the top of the cap.
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4E7036
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead object, in the form of a tear-drop. Possibly part of a seal. There is a worn break at its apex, presumably from a bar which would have joined it to another disc. The upper surface is decorated with cast, raised dots arranged in an irregular pattern. Lead artefacts are difficult to date, but it is likely to be of late Medieval or Post Medieval date, circa 1400 – 1850 AD. The artefact is 23.30mm long, 17.89mm wide, 3.01mm thick and weighs 6.52 grams.
Created on: Friday 28th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Ongar CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4CC224
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (1200-1400AD) lead seal matrix. Non-heraldic personal seal. The matrix is a flat, circular disc with a broken suspension loop at its apex. The matrix has a central design of a bird, wings spread, facing right (in impression). The central design is surrounded by the legend +SIGIL--O--I S'FIL---O---R. The reverse is plain. It has a diameter of 35.1mm, is 40.1mm long including the suspension loop, 5.6mm thick and weighs 29 grams. The seal is damaged, and has been bend in half (now straightened).
Created on: Friday 28th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-4C5046
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (1200-1300AD) lead seal matrix. The matrix is a flat, circular disc with a damaged suspension loop at its apex. The matrix has a central design of a four petalled flower, surrounded by the legend + SIG[ILL R]ICARDI: PECOC (Seal of Richard Peacock). The reverse is plain. It has a diameter of 30.9mm, is 40.5mm long including the suspension loop, 4.1mm thick and weighs 21.57 grams.
Created on: Friday 28th December 2007
Last updated: Saturday 22nd February 2020
No spatial data available.

Record ID: GLO-C01874
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy spindle whorl diameter 25mm, thickness 12mm, weight 49.32g. Sub-cylindrical with an off centre hole 6mm diameter, creamy white patina. Helen Geake writes: “Dating of lead whorls is difficult. The drop spindle with which they were used continued in use until the end of the medieval period in London and Winchester (Egan, 1998, “The Medieval Household: Daily Living c1150 – c1450”; and Biddle, 1990, “Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester”), and for perhaps a century longer in Norfolk (Margeson, 1993, “Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval finds from…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-BFD980
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead token diameter 22mm, thickness 5mm, weight 11.09g. Obverse: cross with a circle running around the centre Date: 1400-1700
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BC8066
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead alloy Post Medieval button. The sub-circular face has a raised cross which is decorated with a series of pellets along the arms and a large central pellet. To one side of the cross is a raised area, which is attached to the rim. On the back of the button is a boss representing the remains of the shank, which is set along a casting flash line. The surviving diameter is 26.2mm, the thickness is 9.2mm and the weight is 8.80g.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wood Enderby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BC3FD2
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast medieval lead bell. The bell is now crushed but originally would have an oblate shape. The opening is closed by four triangular petals with the remains of a lead ball inside. On top of the bell are two stubs, which are the remains of the attachment loop. The bell is quite worn but there is possibly the remains of a decorated strip down one side. The surviving length is 22.0mm, the width is 13.0mm, the thickness is 1.0mm and the weight is 9.06g.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wood Enderby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A8A0F4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete small, triangular shield-shaped lead weight, with a flat top and base and rounded edges. The triangular weight also has rounded corners. The weight features a large raised fleur de lys. Due to a lack of excavated examples and lack of context the date remains uncertain. The weight is complete. The lead is a dark whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Strensall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT-A87334
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead papal bull of Pope Alexander III.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
No spatial data available.

Record ID: YORYM-A83262
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete small, triangular shield-shaped lead weight, with a flat top and base and rounded edges. The triangular weight also has rounded corners. The weight features a large raised fleur de lys (heavily worn). Due to a lack of excavated examples and lack of context the date remains uncertain. The weight is complete. The lead is a dark whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stillington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A810C6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOM-A79961
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy cloth seal of probable late sixteenth or seventeenth century date. The two disc cloth seal measures 32.2mm by 25mm by 3.6mm and weighs 12.7g. Disc 1 has two rivets instead of the more usual one and there are two corresponding holes in disc two. The external face of disc two features an angel with wings spread and the letters K (or R) C (or G), all surrounded by a circular border of pellets. Cloth seals with two rivets were used by immigrant weavers from the Low Countries and France in East Anglia in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Geoff Egan, pers. co…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Limington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A6BDF2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead, irregularly shaped object, though to be a palm guard for textile working or leather working.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A6B3E5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and thin oval shaped lead weight. The weight is decorated with a crude face, featuring eyes, a triangular nose and a slot mouth. A typology of lead weights has not yet been developed, so these weighs are not yet completely understood. Due to a lack of context this weight must remain undated. The weight appears to be complete. The lead is a light whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ripon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A61326
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead bag seal or cloth seal. The seal comprises a two discs of lead, joined together by a folded strip of lead. One disc is decorated with a crude shield, the other features the letters RA, with a tree in between them. The lead has gone a light whitish-grey colour. The seal is likely to date from 1650 - 1850.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A60EA5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Identification supplied by Jim Halliday. A four-disc lead cloth seal (the discs are joined by a strip, which has been folded, and the rivet has been pushed through the fourth disc and hammered to hold the seal in place). The three other discs have been stamped with extra detail. One disc depicts the Arms of England and the other diagonal lines. The disc next to the rivetted disc reads: [--]W // DRAPE // RIE // 73 in four lines.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A5F884
Object type: FLASK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead vessel spout or part of a flask. The flask is hollow, with a flattened section. A circular projection extends out from the main body of the object. It is decorated with a cross-hatched design and the head of a swan or goose can been seen on one edge. Other decoration can be seen on the main body, but it is not clear what it is.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-A44337
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast lead object, possibly a spindle whorl. Date Unknown. Diameter: 26.4mm; thichness: 5.1mm. Weight: 22.04g. The object is convex on the upper face and flat on the underside. A central circular perforation has a diameter of 7.2mm. The surface is pitted overall. Helen Geake, Finds Adviser of the Portable Antiquities Scheme writes: “Dating of lead whorls is difficult. The drop spindle with which they were used continued in use until the end of the Medieval period in London and Winchester (Egan, 1998, “The Medieval Household: Daily Living c1150 – c1450”, 255-…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A3C9F6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval lead cloth seal, TED / EFOR / MED // 29 / 12/9
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.