Record ID: LIN-BD3588
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure ref. 2018 T928: an Early-Medieval gold coin pendant. The pendant is made from a 9th-century Anglo-Frisian copy of a Carolingian solidus of Louis the Pious (814-840). ​The coin has been pierced directly above the head. Obverse: laureate and cuirassed bust right; legend illegible Reverse: cross pattée within a wreath; legend illegible. Discussion: There are only four other solidi of Louis the Pious recorded on the PAS database; a find from Salisbury recorded under WILT-A50F43; one from Lincolnshire recorded under LANCUM-9E265D; one from West Sussex recorded unde…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coningsby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-39515F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring dating to the Middle Saxon period (circa 720-850). The ring is formed by a simple band, circular in plan and in section. The ring is undecorated, and is now slightly misshapen. External diameter: 21mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight 1.74g.
Created on: Monday 10th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Louth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-EB5D55
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure reference no. 2016 T980: a gold ingot. The ingot is sub-rectangular in plan, and has been snipped at both ends. The underside is smooth and flat, while the upper side is slightly domed, being made of a series of flat, rectangular panels or hammer marks. This item was found in cultivated land within a concentration of objects dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period. A smaller number of Middle Saxon artefacts and coins were also found within this concentration. A possible date of circa 500-850 is therefore given for this ingot. Length: 17.4mm, Width: 6.43mm, Thickness: 2.0…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2016
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton Ross', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-9FF479
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case no. 2016 T838: an oval gold pendant set with a cabochon-cut red stone, presumably a garnet. The pendant is formed from a gold back-plate, frame and a suspension loop. The red stone setting is oval in plan, evenly-shaped and with a domed front. It is held within the collar made from an upright strip of gold, fixed to the back-plate (no seam can be seen). Below this, the setting is encircled by a strand of gold beaded wire with plain wire above it. The overlapping ends of these wires can be seen inside the suspension loop. The suspension loop is ribbed or corrugate…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Louth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B3B453
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold mount or setting, comprising an oval-shaped gold sheet with a slightly concave form. The front of the mount is decorated with an incised cruciform motif inlaid with niello. The cross consists of vertical and horizontal arms, roughly equal in length. In the centre, encircling the crossing-point of the arms, is a circle from which extend four additional lines forming a saltire motif between the main arms of the cross. Near the end of each main cross-arm is a crescent line that enhances the inner saltire motif. The back of the mount is plain with some heavy scratches and patche…
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-1C3528
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late 6th- or 7th- century Merovingian gold tremissis, struck circa 590-670. Mint of Metz (METTI[S?]), moneyer uncertain. This coin is also recorded on the Early Medieval Coin Corpus as 2015.0131. The coin depicts a diademed bust right with the inscription METTI[S?]CI[V?]E[T?]I. The reverse depicts a version of a chi-rho with a v-shaped motif in one angle. The inscription is partially legible and reads ANSVO[ ]. Diameter 13mm, weight 1.24g. Cf Belfort 2953-60; Prou 937-943. Possibly a contemporary imitation.
Created on: Friday 5th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-0B3EEB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Merovingian tremissis of the Nietap type (from Frisia), dating to circa 630-40. The coin is small, circular, 6mm in diameter and 3mm thick. The rim of the flan is irregularly-shaped, showing irregular panels caused by the initial casting of the flan or by secondary hammering. The obverse bears the motif of a double cross, formed of a single vertical strokes with two crossing bars or, if viewed at 90 degrees, like an H with a single horizontal stroke and two vertical bars. The tips of each bar are expanded to form a sub-triangular terminal. Around this central double-cross motif…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-152759
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content for the ingot of 43%, and 29% for silver the remainder being copper; the ingot weighs 39.0 grams. The ingot is bar-shaped and hammered to a square section with rounded edges; length, 61mm; width, 9mm; thickness, 8mm. There is a nick in the centre of one edge and there are both fine and coarse abrasions on the surfaces. The metal content of the ingot is not particularly consistent with it being from the Viking period, but would not be out of place for either the Iron Age or Medieval …
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-158C42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early gold Continental tremissis of Merovingian Francia, struck in the late 6th or 7th century, circa 590-670. The obverse is inscribed ANTVBERIX in retrograde. Probably issued near Rodez.
Created on: Monday 30th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-C18EE6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An annular gold bead, probably from a necklace. It is circular with a wide perforation. The body is convex and formed by a series of facets presumably cut by a knife. The top and bottom also contain some facets, and the bead has an overall rough appearance. The whole object appears to be unfinished, lacking in any smoothing of the surfaces. Dimensions: External diameter: 11mm, internal diameter: 6mm. Width 6mm. Weight 4.51g. Analysis: Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface indicated a surface composition of approximately 80-83% gold and 12-13% si…
Created on: Tuesday 7th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 14th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-7A7C04
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold disc pendant decorated with applied filigree beading. It is circular, flat, and decorated with a very worn beaded-wire border around the edge. Just off centre is a damaged setting for a gem consisting of an upright gold strip collar, perhaps originally lozengiform or cross-shaped, and now with rounded corners and slightly incurved sides. The gem is missing. Four radiating arms project from the central setting, each made up of two very worn beaded wires (now 0.4mm in diameter) enclosing S-shaped beaded-wire motifs, all but one motif (the upper m…
Created on: Monday 4th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skegness area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D3E540
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure reference 2013 T188: A gold Viking pendant in the form of 'Thor's hammer'. The pendant is in the form of a double-headed hammer with an elongated pentagonal head. The head is rectangular in cross-section. From the centre of the head extends an integral tapering rectangular-sectioned shaft. The terminal of the shaftis narrowed to form a suspension loop. Both faces of the axe are decorated with punched motifs resembling quatrefoils or perhaps miniature axes. All sides of the shaft are also decorated in a similar manner. Similar decoration is seen on a silver Thor's ha…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spilsby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-DAFEE5
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Anglo-Saxon gold and glass pendant dating to the 7th century. The pendant is approximately square with rounded corners, tapering very slightly from top to bottom. It has a gold backplate and an upright collar, and is set with glass in very poor condition, with only shattered fragments remaining. The collar is a plain strip of gold set at right angles to the backplate, with a well-hidden seam at the right-hand end of the suspension loop. The join between the collar and the backplate is covered with two filigree wires, a thinner outer (0.4mm diameter) and a thicker inner (0…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 27th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Alford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-75FD54
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold Latin cross made with long arm uppermost. The cross is hollow and its structure complex. It is made up with one cruciform sheet, which extends into the suspension loop, acting as a base-plate. A single strip of gold, set on edge, is neatly soldered to this forming a cruciform cell. This is then covered by second sheet of gold whose edges are partially enfolded by the top of the cell wall. The sheet forming the base-plate is pierced at the centre by an equal armed cruciform opening which is partially filled by a thin gold sheet, itself pierced with a smaller equal arme…
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newball', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-58A436
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Merovingian tremissis of the Nietap type (from Frisia), dating to circa 630-40. The coin is also recorded on the Early Medieval Coin Corpus, ref: EMC 2012.0128. Another Nietap type tremissis from Lincolnshire is recorded on the EMC, ref: 2012.0120, and another from the same site as the present coin is recorded as PAS ref. LIN-0B3EEB. The coin is small, circular, 8mm in diameter and 2.7mm thick. The rim of the flan is irregularly-shaped, showing bumps caused by the initial casting of the flan or by secondary hammering. The obverse bears the motif of a double cross, formed of …
Created on: Friday 30th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-18EEC1
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Four gold items of Anglo-Saxon jewellery dating to the seventh century AD, all probably from a single necklace which has in turn probably come from a ploughed-out or disturbed inhumation burial. All four items were discovered in an area measuring approximately 3m x 3m. Items 1 and 2 - the beads Items 1 and 2 are gold biconical beads that are identical in shape, size and decoration. Each one was probably made from two pieces of gold sheet, bent around to form slightly flaring cones; the seam is visible under the microscope on one of the beads. The halves have been soldered to…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-95FD73
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Merovingian gold tremissis; no parallel in Belfort or Prou. The mint is uncertain; the coin appears to read OTAREGCA but this does not match any known mint. The moneyer however is Deairenasea, who is also known from the mint Plailly, (Oise) France (see, for example, EMC 2007.0069). Late 6th or 7th century, c. 590-670 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-EDB856
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon gold pendant of the seventh century. The pendant was originally flat and oval but is now bent. The pendant originally had a setting (which is likely to have been of cabochon-cut garnet or glass) held in place by way of a narrow internal lip on the front. The lip is an extension of the back-plate, folded up and decorated with two bands of beaded filigree soldered onto the surface. The outer band has larger pellets than the inner band. A narrow, ribbed suspension loop extends from the top on the reverse but is now damaged and bent backwards on itself. This loop is soldere…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 14th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dorrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-425D85
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of decorated gold sheet. The fragment is flat and tapers from 9mm to 8mm in width. The tapering edges are original; either end is broken. The broken edges are rough and do not look as if they have been intentionally cut to size. One side is decorated with stamped reversed 'S'-shaped motifs. Each 'S'-shaped motif is made from six or seven tapering or sub-triangular punchmarks. The fragment is of uncertain age and function, but is of a style that would suggest it is over 300 years old. The field on which the gold fragment was found has also produced large quantities of Roman …
Created on: Friday 7th May 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keelby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-A15FA5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flat piece of sheet gold decorated with very worn gold filigree. The object is now roughly triangular, with each edge probably having been cut to size. The object is decorated with four small annulets of beaded wire, and single and double lines and swirls again of beaded wire, soldered onto one face of the sheet to form an irregular design which is difficult to interpret. Similar decorative features are also seen on plated sword pyramids (eg Newark, Notts TAR 1998-9, no. 62), which would seem more appropriate for the thinness of the present object. This fragment is in some ways…
Created on: Monday 5th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckington', grid reference and parish protected.