Record ID: LIN-D031B4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Simple single sheet strap end. The sheet is folded to clasp the leather strap and is secured by a single iron rivet. Simple single sheet strap ends were common in the 14th century.
Created on: Monday 28th April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LIN-D1C543
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead papal bulla of Innocent VI (1352-62AD). The obverse depicts St Peter and St Paul each within a pelleted border facing inwards. The beard on St Paul has been created using incised and raised lines, while the beard on St Peter has been created by using pellet decoration. The word 'SPASPE' (St Paul, St Peter) lies over the portraits. The reverse is inscribed INNO/CETIVS/PP VI. There is a near identical example in the City and County Museum, Lincoln (LCNCC: 2182.25).
Created on: Monday 28th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-D48615
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval buckle, D-shaped frame with rectangular plate. The frame has a copper alloy roller and offset pin. The plate is a folded sheet which terminates on the reverse a quarter of the way along the object, just after the first of the two rivet holes (rivets missing). Three other rivets are in situ at the end of the plate. Evidence of gilding on surface. There is a similarly proportioned buckle, but without a roller, from BIG82 (Billingsgate Lorry Park, Lower Thames Street) found in a context dated to between c.1230 and c. 1260 AD (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 304).
Created on: Monday 28th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-D4C317
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Elaborate and extremely well preserved medieval buckle. Oval frame with trefoil lip, notch for pin, pin missing. The frame is decorated with two lines of opposing triangles. Folded sheet plate attached to a narrowed frame bar. The plate has three rivets sill in situ which all have bulbous terminals. Double line of opposed punched triangles follow the perimeter of the plate.
Created on: Monday 28th April 2003
Last updated: Friday 5th October 2018
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Record ID: LIN-D4E577
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cruciform horse-harness pendant, with bulbous terminals to the arms, which project from a rectangular centre. The centre is decorated with diagonal lines from both angles forming criss-cross. The arm terminals appear to have been decorated, but they are too badly corroded to be interpreted. There is a suspension loop at the top of the pendant. Cruciform pendants may have been connected with clerics, although they may merely indicate private devotion.
Created on: Monday 28th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-D5E561
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cruciform horse-harness pendant. Square centre with projecting arms terminating in floral design. Suspension loop at top. Undecorated.
Created on: Monday 28th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-F977F0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver short cross penny of John.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-F9C286
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Square plate with projecting fleur-de-lys strap terminal. The fleur-de-lys is decorated with two rows of three punched circles. Seven punched circles decorate the square plate. Two rivet holes drilled through plate. Strap end is flat backed.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-F9DE22
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Elaborate horse-harness pendant. The pendant has a square face with a double line border enclosing a perimeter of raised dot decoration. Within the centre of the square face there is a raised fleur-de-lis. The background field is divided vertically into two segments by blue enamelling on the left and red enamelling on the right. Fleur-de-lis lugs project diagonally from each corner of the square. Suspension loop broken. There is evidence of gilding on the non-enamelled surface.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-FA0554
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy mount, possiby from a box or book. The mount is rectangular in plan and terminates with a pierced trefoil. In section it is plano-convex. It is broken along its shaft. Date circa 1200-1500. Similar strap-type mounts dated to c.1230 - c.1450 are illustrated in Egan 1998 figs 45, 49 and 50.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: LIN-FA20C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cross and crosslets ('Tealby') type penny of Henry II. The new Cross and Crosslets issue is more commonly referred to as 'Tealby' coinage, as over 5000 of these pennies were discovered at Tealby, Lincolnshire, in 1807. Coins of this type tend to be poorly struck.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-FA8003
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Seal matrix with trefoil suspension top. Legend "LEAL AMI AVET" (You have a faithful friend) encircles a quatrefoil leaf motif.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
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Record ID: LIN-FAC221
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Six pointed rowel from a spur.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-FADBC0
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Uniface coin weight. The marked side bears a crowned shield, the crown central point is a fleur-de-lys. The motifs in the shield are three fleur-de-lys' (2 + 1). There is evidence of lettering or lys design outside of the shield but not readable due to some surface flaking from the cast. It is probably a french ecu coin weight from the period 1422-1475. This coin was in use in England on a par with the four shillings up to 1525.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-0F4E95
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper alloy strap junction, broken at either end and also near the centre. The strap junction is rectangular in plan, openwork and comprises a large human face in the centre with perhaps vinescrolls and elongated animals forming the frame. The perimeter of the strip is decorated with incised lines. The face is probably male and is 'chubby' in appearance, being round with large cheeks and nose. and has prominent drooping eye lids giving the face a sorrowful appearance. The mouth is oval. The reverse of the strap has four pairs of strap bars, each pair bent over to join in…
Created on: Thursday 1st May 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2013
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Record ID: LIN-7C9180
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy crescentric strap end with an oval aperture. The frame arm tapers to the break at the front of the strap end. The rectangular plate is broken. The face of the strap end is decorated with an incised floral motif.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-7CC622
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Square copper alloy buckle plate. The plate consists of a single sheet rolled over at end to hold the bar of a buckle, now missing. The plate is riveted in each corner for attachment to a belt or strap. There is iron corrosion over the face of the buckle plate and also a single central copper alloy rivet, suggesting that the face once held a decorative iron sheet.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-8D30C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Penny of Henry I (1100-1135), Pax type, BMC 3, North 859
Created on: Wednesday 7th May 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-A5B073
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal fragment from a spur. The terminal is a figure of eight. Only a fragment of the shaft remains, which is lozenge-shaped in section.
Created on: Thursday 8th May 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-BC9732
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver halfpenny of Edward I, mint of London.
Created on: Friday 9th May 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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