Record ID: NLM-FA24C1
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Stone rubber or polisher. A fine-grained Sandstone chunk, possibly half of an originally cylindrical object, with smooth curved sides and flat top with one groove near its edge. The other two adjacent flat sides are both slightly ridged or grooved in the same direction, with about four ridges or grooves passing across that face which preserves these details best. In its present form, the object sits well in the hand if either of the flat faces are used. The improvised use of rubbers and sharpeners and polishers extends from Prehistory, through the Roman period and into the Early Mediev…
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-65E80A
Object type: FOB
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold and glass fob seal, as kindly identified by the finder. A thin casing of reddish gold with a billeted band passing round three sides to afford grip and with a billeted frame for a flat polished opaque black glass gem engraved with the image of a snake passing left through long grass, with the reversed legend above: BEWARE. The base of the casing is dented. Richard Hudson kindly and promptly comments as follows: 'I was just looking through the Finds Database and came across the fob NLM-65E80A. It has been described as depicting a snail in the grass but I’d suggest that th…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AE2C6B
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone rubber. A water-rolled pebble with abundant black flecks to diameter 3mm, with one flattened sub-triangular surface. The object is of a size to fit snugly in the hand and may have been used for a grinding or polishing task using the flat face. The use of a probable Glacial Erratic for such purposes might be ascribed to Prehistory, or indeed any time up to the Viking Age, when the international supply of stone for specialist purposes was revived. Suggested date: Unknown, Neolithic to Early Medieval, 4000BC-AD850 Height: 42.5mm, Width: 49.2mm, Weight: 136.26gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6033AD
Object type: SADDLE QUERN
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained Limestone saddle quern. A neat sub-rectangular block of stepped wedge-shaped profile, worn on its upper surface with a flat base which is indented only at its thicker end. The form is Neolithic, and a saddle quern would be used with a separate cobble grinding stone to grind corn to a coarse flour, and hence marks the advent of arable farming in the area whence it was reported. The small size and flat base – the latter perhaps suggesting use on a flat surface or even a table, which would be a remarkable feature to postulate in a Neolithic settlement – are perhap…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5A8647
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Granite pebble hammerstone. A large rounded water-worn cobble of a pale hard igneous rock, probably granite from Glacial Drift. Both ends are brightened and scarred by use as a pounding or hammering tool. The finder kindly notes that an area of the more extensively battered end was reused as a polisher, which has smoothed this zone over a length of 32mm. Suggested date: probably Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC Length: 89.7mm, Width: 68.6mm, Thickness: 43.8mm, Weight: c.410gms
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4BA85A
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Quartz plough pebble. About one half of an oval quartz pebble, worn to a flat surface across its putative middle with unidirectional fine scoring marks on the flat surface. Kevin Leahy identifies such objects as plough pebbles, considering they were driven into the mould board of a plough to reduce the erosion of the wood by the heavy wear incurred during the use of a plough, with unidirectional wear patterns arising from this setting. These were first identified in Scandinavia, and their British appearance may signal a minor technological introduction by the Vikings. Suggested date: E…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4B38C5
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone polisher, as kindly identified by the finder. A sub-spherical water-rolled pebble with a pale grey surface and smooth overall, with a restricted very smooth zone of length 27mm. The use of such objects as craft tools is likely until the end of the early medieval period, though the finder opines the find-spot to be especially productive of material dated to the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. Suggested date: possibly Bronze Age, 2350-800 BC. Length: 45.7mm, Width: 41.8mm, Thickness: 29.6mm, Weight: 77.01gms
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DF9EEA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone polished axehead. Greenstone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 128.9mm, Width: 61.7mm, Thickness: 34.9mm
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-353814
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sandstone quern fragment. A sub-triangular chunk of fine grained red-buff Sandstone, possibly reused as a sharpening stone. The overall form includes a short [40mm] extent of a curved edge, and an aris where two flat surfaces meet at an acute angle opposite the curved side; the intervening surface is flat and probably lightly dished by wear, the fourth large side is broken. These characteristics could point to this being a fragment of a rotary quern of estimated original diameter 260mm. The Romano-British period also saw the use of a wide range of sharpening and polishing stones, which…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-82E506
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. Cast domed or beehive-shaped thimble with a narrow plain basal zone and the rest of its wall occupied by tiny hand-stamped pits which appear as if stamped in vertical rows. Similar-sized pits on the top appear to follow a left-hand spiral arrangement originating at the apex. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500 Diameter: 18.2mm, Height: 13.6mm, Thickness (wall): 1.3mm, Weight: 3.67gms
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton upon Humber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-63092B
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone possible counter. A small sub-circular polished pebble, with two opposed faces rubbed and one lightly flattened. Playing pieces such as this are most common from Roman contxts where they were used for board games such as Tabula [backgammon]. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 13.4mm, Thickness: 6.1mm, Weight: 1.33gms
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D459FD
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained pale Limestone game piece. A probably lathe-turned concavo-convex counter with a worn concentric pattern on its lightly concave display side. A similar form resulted from the improvised making of counters from small pot bases, and also from slices of turned bone or antler. These pieces would be used for board games like tabula [related to backgammon]. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 27.6mm, Thickness: 9.6mm, Weight: 10.10gms
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-5F0356
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey-buff flint with very marked patina suggesting a long period of exposure to a calcareous environment; possible polished flint axehead fragment. A small chunk which may preserve the crescentic cutting edge of a polished flint axe; if this is so, the other side of the blade has been pitted by frost fractures and/or other impact damage, and the butt and most of the body of the axe are lost. Suggested date: Early to Mid Neolithic, 4000-2700 BC Length: 36.7mm, Height: 36.9mm, Thickness: 18.7mm, Weight: 21.25gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baumber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-354723
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey flint with cortex pebble, possible plough pebble. Over half of a water-rounded flint cobble with a single flat face which is rounded at its edges, smoothed, and bears unidirectional scoring. The finder kindly suggests a role as a sharpener. Dr Kevin Leahy regards these objects as plough pebbles, which would be mounted on the leading edge of the wooden mould board to reduce its erosion during use, the markings on the protruding ‘working’ face of the pebble arising from long use until its displacement. The heavy plough was an introduction of later Iron Age to Early …
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-22A69E
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint with cortex pebble possible plough pebble. One half or more of a water-rounded flint cobble with a single flat face which is rounded at its edges, smoothed, and bears unidirectional scoring. The finder kindly suggests a role as a sharpener. Dr Kevin Leahy regards these objects as plough pebbles, which would be mounted on the leading edge of the wooden mould board to reduce its erosion during use, the markings on the protruding ‘working’ face of the pebble arising from long use until its displacement. The heavy plough was an introduction of later Iron Age to …
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-9BFF0E
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Langdale group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 Length: 53.5mm, Width: 37.8mm, Thickness: 15.7mm, Weight: 49.81gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9BE0CA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Langdale Group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 59.6mm, Width: 45.2mm, Thickness: 12.8mm, Weight: 51.07gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-CA16D6
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey metamorphic polished stone axe fragment. A chip identified by the finder as from a stone axe of darker metamorphic rock than the familiar Group VI axe-heads, from imported elsewhere in western Britain. Three long thin parallel flakes have been struck from the dorsal side by probably bipolar working [i.e. from both ends] leaving a concave ventral surface. This pattern of working would usually commend a later Mesolithic date, though the use of part of an axe may extend that date range into the early Neolithic. Another small fragment of similar stone has been reported from the v…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-118667
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lava quern fragment. A wedge-shaped fragment from a quern stone, rounded by abrasion. One flat face is smoother than the other – though not by much – marking the working side of the stone. The rounded form at the broader end of the fragment may suggest a biconical or hourglass feed hole set centrally to the pair of stones whence this fragment derives. Lava from Eifel in Western Germany was exploited to make quern stones from the Roman period, and these were also the subject of trade between Carolingian Europe and England in the early 9th century. Suggested date: Roman, 43-4…
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4C99D6
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gritstone perforated stone implement fragment. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 6000-4000 BC Length: 92.4mm, Width: 31.1mm, Thickness: 41.4mm
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.