Record ID: LANCUM-AB512C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An enamelled copper alloy plate brooch. It is circular, a raised border on the outer circumference and approximately halfway along the diameter forms a section, inside which cells for enamel are formed by alternate high and low sections. On the raised parts there are traces of a blue enamel. The central section of the brooch would have been divided into six triangular sections, like wheel spokes, which would have also have been enamelled. Three of these remain. In the centre is a raised boss which would have been a prominent feature, but is now missing. The reverse is fl…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Aldborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7E4CC7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A section of what is probably a knee or trumpet type early Roman brooch. The head is circular and behind it are the remains of the fixing plate for the spring. This is a raised rectangular section which fills the full diameter of the head and would have extended perhaps 3mm or 4mm upright. The remains of this have a worn curve in the centre which would have formed a fixing hole when complete. From the front of this head a circular section piece extends which has a central rib down the length of it. This curves at approximately 75 degrees, sloping down from the head, then vert…
Created on: Friday 5th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-02328D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy and enamel lozengeiform brooch of the Roman period, 1st to 2nd centuries AD. It is diamond shaped, with the longer axis being horizontal. In the centre is a number of cells which form first another rhomboid, which is inlaid with blue enamel (intact) and inside this are four smaller diameter circles. The outer circles are inlaid with white enamel, which survives, the inner circles do not have enamel in them, and may alternatively have contained gem stones, it is not possible to confirm this. The outer frame is again a lozenge shaped, div…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nether Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DAAD22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Roman period copper alloy keyhole or fantail brooch, as Hattatt Figure 168. The decorative feature is a circle, divided into quarters with two diagonal lines. Opposing quarters are filled with enamel in yellow and red. Attached to this are the corroded remains of a foot or other feature, with ribs running horizontally across this. On the back is part of the catch mechanism. It has some similarities with the more complete artefact CORN-FF6820, or NMS-018A86 Dimensions: 22mm high and 11.5mm wide, 4mm thickness, it weighs 4.08g
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cantsfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-CC328B
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy heraldic badge. It is quatrefoil in shape, with points between the leaves. A solid plain band is around the outside of this. Inside is a device of initials surmounted by a crown with fleur-de-lys central ornament and two half fleur-de-lys as the outside ornaments. The initial are,as the finder indicates, either a V and W or just W. There are traces of dark blue enamel in the field of the badge, the rear has one central raised point to mount it. It has been damaged, probably by plough although not recently, and is folded back at nearly 90 degrees on the opposite side…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sneaton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-CA8B2F
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable cap badge, of copper alloy, It is circular, with a heavy fixing hook on the rear of the plate. The design is of three flowers equally spaced around the badge. The flowers are indented, consisting of six circular petals and a ring of many stamens, with a clear centre. The field of the badge appears to have blue enamel and the stamens are enamelled with red. It is unclear how the petals and centres were treated, they may have been inlaid with stones or gems which have all fallen out. The under edges of the badge are degraded. Badges with heavy hooks like this are usu…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sneaton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-8DF80D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete early-medieval cast copper alloy strap-end of Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A, Type 2. The upper part of the body, where the fixing holes would have been, is missing The strap-end is flat in profile and sub-rectangular in plan with slightly convex sides and a rounded tip. The upper part of the plate has been broken away, leaving a ragged edge and removing the fixing holes.  Both surfaces of the plate have traces of incised decoration although it is worn. At some point these have either been filled with enamel or enamel has been applied ove…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Leck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-FDE408
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible knife guard. It is moulded in copper alloy and is basically a sub rectangular shape. In the centre is a rectangular hole through which the blade of a small knife would have passed through. At either end the shape narrows to form the muzzles of a zoomorphic design. From the snout, two shallow circular lines extend toward the hole, but at the snout this deepens, making the centre section raised above the outer, emphasising the snouts. The eyes are located inside these circular shapes and there are dots for the nostrils and a triangular shape at the top of the head, f…
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Appleby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-738C09
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy finger ring. The ring is in poor condition, and is no longer circular as the shank has been broken and flattened in antiquity. The bezel survives and is decorated with a 'bullseye' pattern typical of the period. The outer ring has red enamel remaining, the next circular cell has no enamel. Then a further cell contains what would have been white or yellow enamel and the centre is again empty, but was likely to have been enamelled also. It is of Daubney's Group 4 Similar examples are YORYM-62A6EE, SWYOR-1B980F and SOM-9D58C5. The latter ex…
Created on: Monday 12th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DC09C5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy enamelled zoomorphic brooch in the form of a duck or similar bird. The cast copper alloy bird is in the shape of an egg, in plan. The narrow end of the form is pointed to form the tail, the neck and head rises from the wider end. The brooch is hollow. The body of the bird is cast with crescent shaped cells along the side to represent wing feathers and these have been filled with enamel in pale and dark blue, of which some remains. Smaller crescents are also lined along the back and have been enamelled too. There is an eye either side of the head. Unde…
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steeple Gidding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-604E52
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman mount, copper alloy and enamel,  incomplete. A Roman copper alloy enamelled mount with a D shaped fixing on the rear. It is diamond in shape with a central circular cell, and four further cells made with circular shapes on each side.Two of the corners have lugs formed by extending the sides still in place, they are missing from the other two. Each cell is filled with enamel, of which a pale blue colour remains in three of the circular cells and the central one. It is difficult to see remains of the enamel in other cells.
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 19th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lupton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6B01EA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Possible finger ring or even a mount. It is ovoid in shape with a sub-circular central face, from which further material extends out to form the overall. These extensions both have a hole drilled in them, and are angled downwards below the plane of the central face, forming a semicircular section. It is symmetrical in both axes. The semicircular shape fits the finger (a modern male finger) but the two holes either side suggest that this was mounted to something else with a circular shape. The circular central face is divided into five fields - a central sub-square/…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-16F7D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy brooch, Dragonesque style as Mackreth 2011, DRAG  3.a4. Plate 129, probably the latter as enamel is still present in the cells. The head of the beast is missing although the attachment for the 'nostril' is still visible on the body. A central line and borders define four central rectangular cells flanked by two sub-triangular cells to either side; the central squares have opposite cells with blue and yellow enamel, and white in the other two, while the sub-triangular cells have blue with yellow opposing. Examples on the d…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-FBF6EA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper-alloy brooch inset with red enamel. No close parallel identified yet but it has similarities with Trumpet, and possibly Headstud, brooches. The rounded breaks suggest that it was broken in antiquity. The pin and spring, and part of the catchplate and foot, are absent. Suggested date range c43 to c200 AD. Bow (1) - length 31mm, width 11mm, thickness 7mm, weight 3.9g Foot (2) - length 29mm, width 8mm, thickness 7mm, weight 6.6g Overall length 60mm, width 11mm, thickness 5mm, weight 10.5g
Created on: Friday 17th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7054D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy umbonate plate brooch. Dates to between AD c75-200. This brooch is sub-circular in plan with six evenly spaced projections/knops, three at each side. It is roughly 'D'-shaped in side view. At the front there is an angular conical boss with a nipple/knop at the centre. The sides of the central boss are decorated with a quatrefoil formed from four loops each in a piriform shape. These loops are now empty of decorative material. The space between the loops has traces of red enamel. The central boss is enclosed by a recessed circlet which separates it from the o…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cockermouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-32B2D3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman cast copper-alloy flat enamelled disc brooch dating to the period c.AD 80-250. The brooch is circular in plan with a raised outer border and central ring. The area between the border and the ring is decorated with a ring of six spaced pellets set in a field of blue enamel, most of which survives. The recessed cell at the centre of the ring is empty. A worn double lug hinge mechanism and catchplate remain at opposing points of the reverse which is otherwise flat and undecorated. The pin no longer remains. The object measures 23.11mm in diameter, 6.6…
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th March 2022
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Record ID: LANCUM-EEFB87
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A section of an early medieval strap end. It is the pointed terminal. At the end are two eyes moulded in either side of the point. Above this is a line delineating the head. The body is decorated with mirror images formed of hemispherical shapes. There are faint traces of possible enamel in the relief. The back is plain, the whole has a brown patina. It is Thomas Class A Type 2, with non representational curvilinear patterns and a zoomorphic terminal, and is dated accordingly Dimensions: 23mm long and 18mm wide, it weighs 1.95g
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2F27A4
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy seal-box lid, a variation of Andrews type P3. Only the lid remains, the rest of the artifact is absent. It is heart shaped in plan, with the stub of broken loop or hinge projecting from between the two lobes. The outer face is decorated with fine micro mosaic (millefiori) enamel insets. There are bands of concentric decoration. The raised copper alloy outer edge is indented, somewhat like a pie crust. The first band of enamel work is next. This consists of alternating squares of two different designs of chequerboard patterns. The design with the larger 'squares' is …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cockermouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-CC67EB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
An enamelled cast copper strap mount also called a 'pressure tectonic' dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman period, that is c100 BC to AD c200. The artefact is incomplete but in fair condition. It is of roughly triangular shaped, with at least five very worn spikes on the reverse. The two side arms of the triangle are elongated, running together in a long arm with enamelled circular knop. The cross part is S-shaped. There is enamel on each of the three corners of the triangle: a yellow and red ring and circlet at the cross bar S and striped red/yellow enamel at the bottom corn…
Created on: Friday 18th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 5th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Wigton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7563F7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy button of Post-Medieval date (c.AD 1600-1800), likely dating to the Stuart period of the seventeenth century. The button is discoidal and flat. There is a central moulded relief decoration in the form of a trefoil in white enamel, with only two petals remaining. The central raised pellet is also just an outline. The quadrants between each petal are enamelled with blue and red. The back is plain and there is a broken D-shaped attachment loop. Documentary evidence from c.1652 suggests this sort of enamelled button was priced at 2d. a pair, significa…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Over Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.