Record ID: NLM-FC8A62
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible hooked tag. Small cast tapered D-section shank, broken at its narrower end near the site of a curve, and expanded to triangular form at the other end. This now appears to resemble a crowned King’s head with brow and nose, as kindly observed by the finder, though a spiky crown may in part be formed by two juxtaposed drilled attachment holes across which the object appears to have broken. This may suggest the decoration to have been of originally zoomorphic rather than anthropomorphic style, and perhaps unrelated to the late medieval King’s head motif. S…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-F9424D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Sandy oxidised fabric with a gritty internal and external surface, everted rim sherd from a small thin-walled bowl. Suggested date: Unknown, possibly Roman, 43-410; if not, perhaps Early Medieval, 900-1000 Height: 29mm, Width: 27.2mm, Weight: 6.18gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F9141C
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold metalworking debris. A small plano-convex pellet of solidified gold melt which has set on a flat smooth surface. A reddish tint suggests a significant presence of copper in the metal mix, making this a rose gold. Suggested date: Unknown, Bronze Age to Modern, 2350BC-AD1950 Length: 9.1mm, Width: 5.6mm, Thickness: 2.9mm, Weight: 0.80gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7E0863
Object type: OFFCUT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead offcut. A sub-rectangular fragment of cast lead sheet of structural gauge, with knife-cut upper and lower long edges, one partly folded and hammered flat; patinated overall and folded. Reported with another scrap of lead. Patinated. The possible edge of a fixing hole – perhaps formed by the shank of a handmade iron nail – appears at one end. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1700 Length: 41.8mm, Width: 36.2mm, Thickness: 3.0mm, Weight: 53.57gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7DCFB9
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast plano-convex whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 9.5mm with a prominent flattened circumferential rim , patinated and abraded. While the spindle hole size and indeed the surface condition may point to an Anglo-Scandinavian or later date, the form might point to this being a homemade copy using one half of a biconical whorl to form a mould. Suggested date: Unknown, Early Medieval to Post-Medieval, 850-1600 Diameter: 29.3mm, Thickness: 10.8mm, Weight: 41.20gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7CDCE6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable buckle. Cast asymmetrical sub-rectangular double looped buckle frame with an ornately moulded and expanded outer loop bearing complex zoomorphic or vegetal motifs, with small fronds extending to overlap the smaller rectangular inner loop. The flat underside of the outer edge bears multiple drilled pits of which only one or two are carried through the object, the others being shallow and blind, as if an openwork scheme had been attempted but abandoned. Initially a post-medieval date was considered on the basis of the form, but the reddish tint of metal and the deco…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7A5DA6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight. Cast oval plano-convex object, pierced with a possibly drilled hole on the site of a short cut at its edge, and with a broad cut across its flat surface; patinated. This might have been cast from scrap as a tiny ingot as the underside is rough and perhaps sanded but the hole suggests it was then put to some suspended use. Improvised use – perhaps for only a single operation – as a palm guard might equally be entertained. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Length: 41.5mm, Width: 33.8mm, Thickness: 10.1mm, Weight: 58.57gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pilham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7A3EE7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible spindle whorl. Cast discoid cylindrical whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 11.8mm, cf. Walton Rogers form B. One side bears a possibly decorative scheme of indistinct shapes to either side of a gutter round the central hole. This might alternatively be the fortuitous result of shrinkage from casting in an open mould. The metal retains a grey tint which might argue against identification as a whorl, and perhaps in favour of a use as a much more recent fishing line weight. Suggested date: Unknown, Post-Medieval to Modern, 1500-1950 Diameter: 26.2mm, Thicknes…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pilham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7A2403
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy wire. A fragment of drawn wire, from same hole as NLM-7A0656 but considered unrelated by this reporter. Suggested date: Unknown, Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1200-1800 Length: 31.4mm, Diameter: 1.4mm, Weight: 0.36gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pilham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-695412
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Cast heart-shaped lightly concavo-convex plate with a central vertically incised line on it display side and a short [1.8mm] lug on the back. One lobe of the heart is lost, perhaps due to mis-casting rather than damage. The overall form and an integral attachment spike would usually suggest a post-medieval date, but the lug here may be complete. The condition might also permit an earlier date; Roman military equipment included various heart-shaped mounts and pendants. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1700 Height: 18.1mm, Width: 17.6mm, Thickness …
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gainsthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CC1BDC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable buckle frame. Cast annular frame, expanded and thickened on its outer edge and narrowed at the position of its putative pin [lost], slightly concave on both its sides, with a groove on the outer edge of the thinner inner side perhaps marking the pin site. Suggested date: Unknown, Early Medieval to Medieval, 900-1200 Diameter/Length: 35.6mm, Height: 35.2mm, Thickness (at outer edge): 4.6mm, Weight: 12.77gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B58CF8
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead ingot. Cast discoid plano-convex ingot, formed by pouring molten led into a shallow bowl-shaped hollow, or possibly into the base of a vessel with a curved base. Patinated. The appearance of imprints from a finely sanded surface may suggest this to be from tidying up after an episode of formal lead working, where a casting bed would be used. The surface of the object as cast is irregular, probably due to the cooling process as the metal congealed. Similar objects come from Early Medieval and Medieval contexts – one from a 10th-century context Beverley, Lurk Lane, was associa…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-22C865
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Small cast sub-conical weight with a longitudinal possibly pierced aperture of 5-3.5mm width. Three tiny sharp flanges project from the base and appear alongside what appears as tiny slits. Patinated overall. The finder kindly suggests a function as a line weight, which appears apt. These are usually ascribed to the medieval period, but a pot mend from the same site bears exactly the same surface patina and was ascribed to the Roman period. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Diameter (long axis): 18.2mm, Height: 14.1mm, Weight: 18.34gms
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Springthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-20D931
Object type: OVEN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ceramic building material, possible hearth, kiln or oven fragment. A fragment of indurated heated clay, reddened on its upper side where rare calcareous inclusions to length 7mm appear, and a darker brown below this, with zones on the lower part appearing like the cancellous tissue within bone – whether this hints at the inclusion of bone fragments in a clay groundmass or is an effect on the clay arising from intense heat is uncertain. This object may be from the surface of a hearth made of puddled clay, or from the domed wall or lining of an oven or kiln. Suggested date: Unknown…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Messingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CF52D6
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy spur fragment. Fragment of a medieval spur [source record]; this reporter [MF] would deem a post-medieval date as likely. Suggested date: Unknown, Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Length: 84.9mm, Width: 17mm, Thickness: 3.9mm, Weight: 16.0gms
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NLM-B68FE7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. One sheet of an assembled strap end, some remains of rocked tracer decoration, worn. An illustration shows an openwork post-medieval mount. A copy of the source record card is omitted from the accompanying scanned series and notes on that record state a numbering error is likely. Suggested date: Unknown, Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Length: 22mm, Width: 10.9mm, Thickness: 1.6mm, Weight: 1.66gms
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A19868
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible sword belt fitting (MF). Strip like cast mount with lower end bent to form a large hook. The source record and accompanying database propose a medieval date and a function as a harness fitting [unspecified]. Suggested date: Unknown, Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Length: 81.6mm, Width: 5.1mm, Thickness: 8.2mm, Weight: 16.31gms
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-8E6DE9
Object type: TOY
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy. Lead toy jug, possibly Georgian [from database accompanying source record]. Parallels from London are of 15th-century date: Forsyth and Egan 2005, pages 285-287, if the small feature between spout and body had formerly been more extensive. Suggested date: Unknown, Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1400-1800 Height: 46.5mm, Width: 38.4mm, Thickness: 13.8mm, Weight: 58.58gms
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-270828
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible button or cuff link fragment. Cast flat plain discoid front retaining a hard pale buff material on its display side, possibly a degraded enamel, with a central hole on the back for a loop [lost]. Similar material appears in the cup of 'golf tee' studs of Roman date, which imposes caution before assigning a dismissively recent date - Read's work on medieval and later buttons does not feature enamelled fronts at all. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1800 Diameter: 14.8mm, Thickness: 2.5mm, Weight: 0.79gms
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyham cum Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2126C9
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight fragment. A cast triangular block, flat-sided and with one flat regular edge; the other two longer sides appear uneven as if a fragment had been roughly hacked from a larger object which was originally carefully cast in a finely sanded mould whose imprint may appear on the base [as cast]; one broken side coincides with a long hollow casting flaw. Patinated. Objects of about this mass occur among weights from medieval London, though neither frequently nor of this form (Egan 1998, Table 15, Fig. 229). Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Length: 42.5m…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.