Record ID: LIN-CE0062
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead modern (AD c.1700-c.1900) Baltic bale seal. The seal is sub-circular and measures 19.7mm long, 17.6mm wide and 5.1mm thick. It weighs 8.98g. It has a piercing for the cord running from one edge to the opposite edge. One face reads: "WLT / 9K". The reverse is damaged but a similar example from North Yorkshire has a shield containing a plain cross with five pellets in each of the upper angles. An almost identical seal can be seen in the Leaden Token Telegraph, Issue 21, p.3, Fig.4. A number of Baltic bale seals have been found near Gainsborough: LIN-4F211E, LIN-7BBEB5, LIN-328…
Created on: Thursday 14th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 17th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-4F211E
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Russian Customs bale seal. The seal is made of lead and has an irregular shaped piercing through it from one edge to the other. The seal has been stamped on one face with a partial inscription in Cyrillic script: [PIЖ]OПOPTA, translated as 'RIGA PORT ... 17(8)2. The seal is decorated with the Arms of the Russian State, to the left of which is Ю, and to the right of which is the letter T; these letters may mean 'Jute'. Below the arms is what is probably a seal crimping tool. The date [17]82 is visible above the Arms. Overall, the seal measures 18.2mm in diameter and 5.5mm in th…
Created on: Friday 8th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D0D339
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy modern (AD c.1800-c.2000) badge. Overall, the badge measures 17.6mm long, 16.7mm wide and 5.6mm thick. It weighs 1.83g. The badge appears to be formed from two parts. The front part, measuring 17.6mm long, 14.2mm wide and c.2.7mm thick, is in the moulded shape of a facing head of a dog, perhaps a fox, with long pointed ears and a narrow snout. The back part is an oval plate, measuring 12.6mm long, 16.7mm wide and 0.5mm thick with a long central section that projects forward c. 4mm into the back of the head shaped front part. The reverse of this section is hollow. The ed…
Created on: Monday 21st July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 31st July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-7BBEB5
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead modern Baltic bale seal dating to AD 1834. The seal has a pair of sub-rectangular piercings through the seal from one edge to the other. The seal has been stamped on both faces with inscriptions in Cyrillic script. The seal is for a bale of hemp. The seal gives the inspector's name as I.M. Bushev, and the port-name St Petersburg. Obverse: ПД = PD (Hemp) И.M.БУШEBЬ (I.M.BUSHEV) H67 Reverse: CПБ ПEH2 A.H. 1834 The top line of the reverse СПБ are the initials for St Petersburg. Overall, the seal measures 21.1mm in diameter and 5.3mm in…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-68BA61
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead post-medieval (AD c.1750-c.1850) Baltic bale seal for flax or hemp. The seal is broadly circular and flat with a perforation through it from one edge to the opposite edge. One face is stamped with a cross short plain cross within a heater-style shield with slightly concave sides. There are traces of four pellets in the top right corner of the shield. The other face is stamped with 12(K).T.M within a circular pellet border. Overall, the seal measures 22.7mm in diameter and 4.0mm in thickness. It weighs 10.68g. This seal is from Riga, Narva in Estonia.
Created on: Wednesday 16th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-ABE8E3
Object type: STUD
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probably modern (AD c.1700-2000) possible double furniture stud, possibly for holding leather into a chair. Overall, the object measures 18.9mm long, 29.7mm wide and 14.7mm thick. It weighs 11.9g. The object appears to be two studs joined together at the edges of their heads. The heads are slightly domed and the stems are quite thick (5.8mm in diameter tapering to 4.1mm). One of the heads has a slight projection at the opposite edge to where the other stud is attached. This suggests that another stud was attached there as well.
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 11th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-943908
Object type: WATCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Modern (AD c.1800-1900) multi socket pocket watch winder key, missing all six of its sockets. Overall, the object measures 19.7mm in diameter 4.1mm thick. It weighs 2.42g. The object is broadly hexagonal in shape, with a central openwork circle and six projecting sockets, one at each corner. The edge between each socket has a slight concave curve. The inner and outer edges are slighlty raised. The complete object would have had six cylindrical sockets of different diameters, possibly made from steel, to enable it to wind a variety of pocket watches.
Created on: Tuesday 24th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 11th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-7EEA27
Object type: CANDLESTICK
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy possibly modern (AD c.1700-1850) possible push-up ejector handle from a candlestick. Overall, it measures 20.3mm long, 15.2mm wide and 4.1mm thick. It weighs 1.96g. Decoration is openwork, and consists of three circular holes in a line with a larger circular hole above and a wide sub-cylindrical/conical projection below. The projection narrows and then widens at the end, forming a constriction.
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 8th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.