Record ID: NLM-737F53
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nail head. Pressed metal head of a ‘fancy nail’, as they are described in a catalogue of 1907, with its edges slightly crimped. The plate takes the form of a cross crosslet or Cross of Jerusalem; though a badge used by the Knights Templar, this is unrelated to their interesting activities and is one of a series of arcane motifs used for these decorative items, which may be compared to drawing pins in their possible uses. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1910 Height: 18.2mm, Width: 18.6mm, Thickness: 0.4mm, Weight: 0.83gms
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E3061B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Hard-fired fine red fabric with a glossy brown glaze inside and out; the outer surface bears a moulded basketwork pattern. Possibly a body sherd from a teapot or other ornamental tableware. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Weight: 10.23gms
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DFBF2E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Hard-fired smooth oxidised fabric, body sherd. Possibly from a flowerpot. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1975 Weight: 5.54gms
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CE1333
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A pointed leaf-shaped plate with vertical edges and a central fixing point marked by a spot of rust. The object is bent sharply at one end, where it is broken. The crisp edges might suggest a function as a part from machinery. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 55.4mm, Width: 24.4mm, Thickness: 2.4mm, Weight: 16.75gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CE027D
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy possible toy fragment. Cast trough or scoop with a reinforcing bar behind its blade with a central moulded fitting retaining rust traces, suggesting the passage of an inserted steel wire, and hence a requirement for reinforcement at this point. This might be from a toy, perhaps a vehicle such as a model mechanical excavator or an item of dolls house furniture; the use of lead alloy tends to point to a representative function rather than a robust mechanical one. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 27.2mm, Width: 20.6mm, Thickness (at bar): 2.2mm, Weight: 6.27gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CD9DDA
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron bag seal. Cast disc, with a projecting stub of embedded steel wire. One side bears glossy black paint and the legend: SOLEN. The metal retains a grey tint suggesting its recent date. Found together with another similar bag seal from the vicinity. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Diameter: 15.2mm, Thickness: 3.9mm, Weight: 5.72gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CD7A2E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Cast plate bearing stamped detail, taking the form of a flag with its flagstaff represented on one side as a button-ended stick, with a fold of drapery behind the flag, and with a U-shaped tab projecting from the upper corner opposite the flagstaff. The flag bears a border of tiny triangles and an inner rectangle containing six horizontal rows of ten dots or pellets. The tab is sharply bent for setting at the edge or corner of a surface and tab bears a drilled fixing hole of diameter 2mm, suggesting this object might have adorned the top of a small box. Reported al…
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CD6F00
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Cast plate bearing stamped detail, taking the form of a Union Jack flag with its flagstaff represented on one side as a button-ended stick, with a fold of drapery behind the flag, and with a U-shaped tab projecting from the upper corner opposite the flagstaff. The tab is sharply bent for setting at the edge or corner of a surface and bears a drilled fixing hole of diameter 2mm, suggesting this object might have adorned the top of a small box. Reported along with another flag-shaped mount of similar size but, unlike this one, not apparently representing a national f…
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CD1B37
Object type: BULLET
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead bullet, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast cylindrical round-nosed bullet with two circumferential rings around its base. Patinated. Probably for use with a revolver of 0.35 inch calibre, though a 9mm diameter might also point to a round for the Sten gun, which was designed to use captured German 9mm calibre ammunition, and which might have found its way into the hands of the Home Guard later in the Second World War. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 13.8mm, Diameter: 9.0mm, Weight: 7.90gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CD0711
Object type: OFFCUT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead offcut. A cast cylinder of lead with a concave moulded end and a cleanly broken end. The metal retains a grey tint suggesting its recent date. The form and size might commend identification as a lead slug or supplementary load for a gun, but the surface condition argues against this. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 15.0mm, Diameter: 16.1mm, Weight: 29.57gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-255D2B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Clear glass of an amethyst tint, vessel fragment. One end of a small round or oval bowl with fluted vertical sides, perhaps an ashtray. Suggested date: Modern, 1920-1980
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th February 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-9325D3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap fitting. A pressed metal oval plate with two rectangular apertures for the passage of a light strap. Rays appear on the back at one outer edge. A legend in three parts aligned with the apertures reads: WALDO’S/MADE IN CZECKOS/PAT APPD. This object would therefore appear to post-date the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War. Suggested date: Modern, 1920-1950 Length: 14.3mm, Height: 10.7mm, Thickness: 1.1mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FE7FA7
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nail head. Pressed metal hollow-backed decorative nail head, in the form of a Cross of Jerusalem or cross crosslet, with the arms of the figure outlined by a sunken line of dots. The function is confirmed by a central scar and surrounding rust staining on the back. This is a slightly larger than usual version of a Victorian object type, though the Templar affinities of the motif have often promoted the wishful ascription of a medieval date to these objects. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1910 Length: 26.3mm, Width: 26.1mm, Height (i.e. protrusion): 3.2mm, Thickness (wa…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-687A8B
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead bag seal. Cast disc with a slot in one edge and a bifurcated slot in the opposite edge, to function as a drawstring bag closure. The metal retains a grey tint beneath a thin layer of patina. Bent. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Diameter: 14.7mm, Thickness: 5mm, Weight: 4.26gms
Created on: Tuesday 18th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-57C51A
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy shrapnel fragment. Cast shard from the casing of a heavy anti-aircraft shell, with grooves on either side running in opposite directions to maximise fragmentation at the detonation of the shell; jaggedly broken. This is evidence of the active defence of the Humber during the Second World War by numerous heavy batteries sited around the estuary. Suggested date: Modern, 1939-1945 Length: 36.6mm, Width: 22.7mm, Thickness: 3.2mm, Weight: 14.91gms
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Humberston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6B09F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy possible coin. Cast disc, flat on one side and with an irregular moulded surface on the other; retaining a grey tint. This may be a cast forgery intended to resemble a Celtic coin of the Corieltauvi. Large numbers of these fakes have been reported from areas frequented by metal detectorists in the northern part of Lincolnshire, and their distribution from a suspected ‘mint’ in the Grimsby area may have taken place in the course of rivalry between detectorists. This may be the first such object to be reported from Wyham cum Cadeby parish, though objects have been recorde…
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyham cum Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-474647
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Pressed metal uniform button of composite construction, possibly a General Service button, with a convex front bearing the Royal Arms, a convex back plate with stamped maker’s details and a U-shaped drawn wire loop which passes into it. Many uniform buttons were deposited along with ‘shoddy’ – discarded fabric; in this case old uniforms – which was used in the belief that it would improve soil as it decayed. The cheaper grades of shoddy were not stripped of metal fittings before being put on the land. Many buttons were thus deposited, in particular at th…
Created on: Thursday 23rd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 23rd December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyham cum Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B045B9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy coins. Two probably cast uniface modern forgeries [of diameter 22.6mm and weight 7.71gms and diameter 18.3mm and weight 3.32gms] representing the discombobulated or Celticised horse reverse of later Iron Age coins of the Corieltauvi. These objects appear to have been distruibuted in large numbers across land frequented by metal detector users. A ‘mint’ in the Grimsby area is suspected. The distribution of the forgeries appears to relate to rivalry between detectorists over popular hunting grounds. Suggested date: Modern, 1980-2010 Combined Weight: 11.04gms
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8DE62F
Object type: DISC
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dog tag. Milled disc with rim. One side bears a motif of crossed fronds [?or dog leads, or tails?]with the number 9 above it and an interpolated legend: HELP MY /PALS and a circumferential legend: THE TAIL-WA GGERS CLUB. The other side bears a reference number: 622539 and the smaller inscribed legend [modern capitals]: WATSON/THE MANOR/HOUSE/?MUNSELL/SOUTH. An even smaller circumferenrtial legend includes: [--]ROYAL 130853/[---]LONDON EC[-]. A hole is drilled at 12 o’clck, the tail-waggers part of legend respects this hole and so it must be deemed integral to the funct…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8D5CAA
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy coin. Possibly cast version of a large module coin, possibly loosely modelled on a half crown of Edward VII (1901-1910), an inference from the size of the flan alone. A piercing at 12 O'clock may be for suspension, but the object is not modelled like most contemporary commemorative medallions. Obverse description: Short-haired bust bearded right with arched crown or Crown Imperial. Obverse inscription: [---]RDVII Reverse description: Large capital letters: E R, flanking a central oval feature and viewed against a pelloidal ground; well defined outer circl…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.