Record ID: LIN-73F540
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A solid cylindrical-shaped piece of lead with flat ends. Each end appears to be cut flat suggesting that this is an ingot of lead. The surface has a white patina.
Created on: Monday 19th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Apley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-9A1C83
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large lead object, possibly a weight. The object has two large flat circular discs joined in the centre by a thick central column. The date of the object is unknown. The object is over 200g (the maximum weight the FLOs scales can measure).
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-954F33
Object type: PLUMB BOB
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead object, probably a plum bob. The object is cylindrical, solid and has a groove around the head. The terminal is pointed. Unknown age.
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LIN-29E0A2
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead gaming piece or weight. The item is circular with a recessed face on both sides. One side bears three dots.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-706476
Object type: PLUMB BOB
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead plumb bob of uncertain date. The weight is conical, with an iron suspension loop projecting from the top. There is some corrosion damage to the surface of the iron, and wear to the lead surface, but otherwise the object is in fair condition. Still in use today, the plumb bob has a long history with its earliest recorded use by the Egyptians in around 2600BC (Murland). There are several examples on this database with numerous dates attributed, but no distinct typology has been developed to enable accurate dating of these tools. This example resembles LANCUM-8FA658, a roman…
Created on: Friday 6th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-91B887
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plano-convex lead weight or spindle whorl. The weight is undecorated.
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-4C9164
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large lead weight or plum-bob. The object is sub-conical, solid and has a flat top with a small suspension mechanism at the top. The mechanism is a solid circular-sectioned shank with an L-shaped hole through it. Possibly Roman.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-73DDA2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bun-shaped lead weight of unknown age.
Created on: Monday 19th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Apley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E9C236
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead counter or gaming piece. The object is circular in plan and stands 4mm high. The counter is uniface, decorated with an outer band of dots and an inner band of diagonal grooves. The centre is concave. The date of this object is difficult to determine.
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-911D65
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead tankard seal dating to the reign of William III, 1694-1702. The seal is an oval band with a crowned WR stamped on one side.
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-BA2985
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete four-part alnage seal of Anne. Only one pair of discs remain. One side displays the head of Anne left, ANNA REGI[NA] around; the other side displays a unicorn left, I to left and 1/2 to right.
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middle Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-BA5DD7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn lead cloth seal. The seal compirses two discs joined together in the centre and with a small tab at one side. One side is illegible. The bears a circumferential inscription reading [ ]A[ ] surrounding B[ ]//CLOV//ESLE//[ ].
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middle Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-CBB634
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead uniface token. The token is decorated with a long cross with a pellet in each angle.
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-4DDD52
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A capacity seal made of lead and dating to the post-medieval period. The seal is a flat band of lead that would have originally been attached to the handle of a drinking vessel to mark that it was of official capacity. The seal displays a stamped crown above unclear lettering. The stamp is a kind of capacity mark, to show that the particular stoneware vessel officially held the correct volume of liquid. Usually these marks were stamped integrally into the ceramic before firing (near the rim - ie inevitably close to the handle). They began under William III. The dating is not as simp…
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-911B44
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead cloth seal from the fustians of Augsburg, sixteenth to early seventh century. The seal is circular and has an incomplete circular tab on the reverse. The obverse is decorated with an ornate letter A with annulet above and ?lis and annular below. The reverse depicts a cride pine-cone. Similar seals are recorded in Egan, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum', p. 106.
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: LIN-29D387
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged post-medieval lead toy or miniature representation of a chalice. The object has an incomplete pedestal base with concave centre. The vessel wall was originally hexagonal but is now squashed flat. The rim is missing. Each panel is decorated with a vertical perimeter of pellets, and around the top one or two draped garlands of pellets are also visible. For a similar example see SWYOR-E3D418.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-6F0DE5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead cloth seal. The object consists of two lead discs joined by a sprue were bent around a piece of cloth and stamped to seal. Traces of the stamped design remain as a letter 'P' within a circle on one disc and 'M' within a circle on the other. There also appears to be a pictorial design on the latter disc, possibly a portcullis, though this is very worn. The seal has a uniform grey patina, and is in fair condition, despite the surface wear.
Created on: Friday 6th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-C3DC46
Object type: FIRE MARK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval firemark. This item represents the section where the arches of the crown connect to the central jewel. A two-dimensional cast lead object in the form of a curled beast. The beast is roughly oval in plan, D-shaped in cross-section and curled so that the tail is near the snout. Although the beast resembles the shape of a shrimp or prawn the body and head are much more serpent-like. The head is sub-triangular and decorated with a moulded pellet or an eye, and radiating lines from this perhaps representing scales. The slender body is decorated with a row of lar…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-C4FA78
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead cloth seal. The seal comprises a circular disc with decoration on both sides and an incomplete joining arm. The disc is decorated on one side with an unclear motif in the form of a crook or hook. The other side depicts what appears to be a small rowing boat with a star above it. Similar one sided dyers seals depicting rowing boats with stars above are known from the London waterfront; one is illustrated in Egan, 1995, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum', British Museum Occassional Paper No. 93, p. 98, no. 290 & fig. 37.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-C52944
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead searcher's seal. The seal comprises two circular discs joined in the centre; the joining arm is missing. The narrower disc is worn but contains a feint pellet in the centre. The larger disc dispays the letters T P either side of a central staff or cross with perhaps the letter A at the base.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.