Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM4682
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Shield shaped heraldic stud. The stud has a circular-sectioned shank in the centre of the reverse. The face of the stud depicts a wyvern outstretched.
Notes:
Checked following Sophie Catley. Dating completed (unamended). Drawing ref. added.
Class: heraldic
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.4 mm
Width: 27.3 mm
Thickness: 2.4 mm
Weight: 13.93 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 25th June 1999
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Other reference: NLM2231
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Heraldic
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
No references cited so far.
As mentioned on record LIN-059693 this si more likely to be a crayfish or lobster. There are a number of similar records of this device in the county.