Record ID: LANCUM-4B16A8
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A voided copper alloy metal Royal Artillery headdress badge. The badge is shaped around the emblem which comprises a field gun with scroll above inscribed 'UBIQUE' and scroll below inscribed 'QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT', all surmounted by a crown. The badge is complete with the slider on the reverse. Dimensions: it is 65mm wide and 46mm high and weighs 8.95g
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Weir', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DB57EA
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy colliery workers token from the Towneley Colliery. The token is circular in plan with a suspension perforation at the apex. On the outer face there is an inscription within a circumferal beaded border which reads TOWNELEY COLLIERIES. The front has been overstamped with three digit numbers at least three times, to the point ithat it is now difficult to work out what those numbers were. It is probably why 441 is stamped on the back, albeit with the 1 at right angles to the 44. These are the colliery workers numbers. Dates to between c1933 and c1949 AD, when the Townel…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Burnley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DB3BED
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy colliery workers token from the Towneley Colliery. The token is triangular in plan with a suspension perforation at the apex. On the outer face there is an inscription within a beaded border on the edge which reads; BROOKS & BROOKS COLLIERIES LTD BURNLEY The front is overstamped with 507. This is the colliery workers number. Dates to between c1923 and c1933 AD, when Brooks and Brooks took over the running of the colliery from Brooks and Pickup. Length 40mm, width 32mm, weight 4.47g.
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Burnley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DB24AF
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy colliery workers token from the Towneley Colliery. The token is circular in plan with a suspension perforation at the apex. On the outer face there is an inscription within a circumferal beaded border which reads TOWNELEY COLLIERIES. 231 is overstamped on the front. This is the colliery workers number. Dates to between c1933 and c1949 AD, when the Towneley Coal & Fireclay Company, and later the National Coal Board (from 1947), had taken over the running of the colliery from Brooks and Pickup. Diameter 37mm, weight 11.34g.
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Burnley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DA9D53
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy colliery workers token from the Towneley Colliery. The token is triangular in plan with a suspension perforation at the apex. On the outer face there is an inscription within a beaded border on the edge which reads; BROOKS & BROOKS COLLIERIES LTD BURNLEY On the back 676 is stamped. This is the colliery workers number. Dates to between c1923 and c1933 AD, when Brooks and Brooks took over the running of the colliery from Brooks and Pickup. Length 39mm, width 33mm, weight 6.74g.
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Burnley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-5E8B25
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy bifacial Georgian 9 shilling coin weight, of Modern date c.1760-1773. Both faces are marked with an Arabic numeral 9 (Withers and Withers, 2011, p. 53). It measures 16.55mm in diameter, 1.92mm in thickness, and weighs 2.71g.
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Last updated: Saturday 5th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Over Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F0D172
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval to Modern copper alloy repurposed toy element. It is circular in plan and a flattened oval in section. It is undecorated. The object looks like the weighted disc from a small toy gyroscope or spinning top. The original central perforation used to orignally attach the disc to the toy has been modified to a keyhole shape. The purpose of the modified object is unknown, but it may have served as a suspended weight or as a type of toy. Dates to between c1850 and c1970 AD. Diameter 34mm, thickness 8mm, and the weight is 33.60g.
Created on: Sunday 8th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 11th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gisburn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-78547C
Object type: CROSS
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern painted metal cross-like object. The metal is probably spelter or a lead alloy. It has a black surface treatment, probably something like an enamel paint. Two coterminous pieces have survived, the rest of the object is lost. The central element of both pieces is a raised decoration in the form of the staff of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian often depicted with the head of an ibis and carrying an ankh and the staff shown on the cross. The rest of the outer face's decoration is impressed. The foot and arm have a border 3mm from the edge and are stippled all over. The arm also has fo…
Created on: Friday 4th October 2019
Last updated: Sunday 1st December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Skelmersdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B1944
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy commemorative badge dating to 1926AD. The badge depicts the inaugural Manchester Civic Week which took place from Saturday 2nd to the Saturday 9th October 1926. The badge has the emblem of Manchester on the front of it, the worker bee, which symbolised Manchester as the hive of activity during the 19th century, when industry within the city was at its height. The badge is inscribed with 'Manchester Civic Week 1926'. There is no makers mark The diameter is 21mm and the weight 3.17g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-54332E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Unoffical Farthing Bell Lancashire No.28 Batty 164 token dating 1837-1870AD. The obverse depicts 'OLD POST OFFICE BUILDINGS 24 CHURCH STREET LIVERPOOL' and the reverse legend is 'F L HAUSBERG JEWELLER WATCHMAKER HANDVACTURER OF DESKS DRESSING CASES LAMPS CHANDELIERS & CO'. The diameter is 24mm and the weight 3.99g. These tokens, all farthings in size and value, were issued by merchants for use as small change during the reign of Queen Victoria. This interesting group of tokens were struck primarily by merchants during the years 1837-1870. Being of approximate farthi…
Created on: Monday 5th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-77D9B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy farthing of Victoria dating to 1843AD of the young head copper coinage VICTORIA DEI GRATIA is the ob legend and BRITANNIAR REG FID DEF is the rev legend. The diameter is 23mm and the weight 4.58g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-20DC9A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1840s Victoria Queen Of Great Britain / Prince Of Wales Half Sovereign Token. Obv: Bust of Victoria left / VICTORIA QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN Rev: Prince of Wales ostrich feathers / THE PRINCE OF WALES MODEL HALF SOVRN http://www.terapeak.com/worth/1840s-victoria-queen-of-great-britain-prince-of-wales-half-sovereign-token/311490916035/
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trawden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-A7ECF5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy military button brass, two-piece convex dating 1941 to 1952AD. It depicts the army catering corps which would have originally had the name in circlet, now worn off, around steaming bowl, dating to the modern period 1700 to 1900AD. The Army Catering Corps was a corps of the British Army, responsible for the feeding of all Army units. It was originally formed in March 1941 as part of the Royal Army Service Corps, and became a corps in its own right in 1965. In 1993, as part of the Options for Change defence review, it was amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps. The motto…
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-F6908A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern Cumberland Jack token dating from 1837/1862. http://www.aboutfarthings.co.uk/Hanover%20Tokens.html: "The tokens & counters that bear the words "To Hanover" (commonly known as Cumberland Jacks) are usually found with Victoria's portrait on the obverse and a figure riding a horse on the reverse (in the style of St George slaying the dragon). They were probably produced as satirical counters. The history behind these pieces is that when Victoria was crowned as Queen, she was unable to fulfil the role of King of Hanover under Salic Law, due to the fact that she was a fema…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2016
Last updated: Saturday 15th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morecambe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-5A2D8B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late post medieval copper alloy and white metal penny model of Queen Victoria, dating from the 19th century. It appears to be a Moore One Penny Model of 1844 to 1848, never officially circulated but still used by the public. An identical piece was recorded under LANCUM-D0DAE1 and there is more information about the penny model on Wikipedia: "The 1844 Victoria One Penny Model was a model coin issued by Birmingham medallist Joseph Moore (1817-1892) between 1844 and 1848, during a period in which the British Government were considering the notion of replacing the heavy copper coi…
Created on: Friday 13th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 2nd June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-CDC93E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object probably a coin. There are a number of coins that have been produced in the world with holes in the centre. There is not a lot of detail remaining but it is reminiscent of a British West Africa coin with the scrollwork and hint of arabic legend from the 20th century of a type that circulated in the British colonies of Gambia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast (Ghana). The diameter is 27mm and the weight 5.50g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-C014B4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy pub token from the Sun Inn Preston. It is a circular token with a representation of the sun on one side - a circular face with rays radiating outwards in all directions part way to a pelleted borderaround the circumference of the token. The other side has the same pelleted border around the circumference and the legend: SUN INN PRESTON around the border and MAIN SPIRIT WEIND across the centre. The Sun Inn was in business from around 1790 to 1940 and this token probably dates from the latter part of the 19th century. Dimeter 24mm, Thickness 1mm, Weight 2.9g.
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dinckley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-166EFC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy coin, British West Africa one penny of George 6th. From the 20th century of a type that circulated in the British colonies of Gambia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast (Ghana). Obverse description: An imperial crown above a central circular hole with a scroll ornament to right and left; below crown, ONE PENNY; around, outside the scroll ornaments, GEORGIVS SEXTVS REX; below hole in Arabic, the denomination. Reverse description: Around circular central hole, Solomon's seal, consisting of two equilateral triangles interlaced; around, BRITISH WEST AFRICA. There …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-4D12B9
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy button, possibly off a uniform or livery. Dating from the 19th century. The button is circular and domed, with separately made wire loop on the reverse. The reverse is plain, but the obverse is decorated with engraved initials (possibly B G), a stylised crown and foliage around it.
Created on: Monday 29th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 25th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yealand', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E22C51
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy figurine of an eagle with outspread wings dating from AD 1725 - 1800. The eagle is portrayed with outstretched wings with its head turned to left; the head and body, including its underside, carry engraved details representing facial features and feathers; at the base of the figurine just above the legs of the eagle is an irregular breakage representing the remains of an attachment feature. An identical figurine can be seen as the handle on the lid of a mid 18th century kettle (Koper & Brons, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1986, cat. no. 262, p188) thus confirming the susp…
Created on: Wednesday 14th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Torrisholme', grid reference and parish protected.