Record ID: LANCUM-421FE3
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Whetstone pendant of uncertain date within the period c. 2150 BC - AD 1400. The object is square and tapers to a broken forked edge. The top of the object is pierced and demarcated from the rest of the object by horizontal grooves that run around the top and the bottom of the piercing. Vertical grooves run down the centre of each face. The piercing is wider at one end than the other. The object is formed from dark-grey stone. It is 51.44mm in length and 11.54mm in width. It weighs 8.86g. Whetstone pendants of similar form are known from a number of archaeological periods, including…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-FF4A27
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a whetstone dating from the early medieval period. The object is roughly rectangular in shape and has a rectangular cross section. The surface on one side is rougher than on the other three sides which are very smooth. There are two parallel 'cuts' around the top part of the object which is where a string may have been attached to it. There is no evidence of a perforation.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C24D61
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead plano-convex spindle whorl. The whorl is crudely made and decorated with several lines criss-crossing each other. The decoration on both sides is very similar. It has been noted that the weight of a spindle whorl is demonstrative of the thickness of yarn produced, with lighter spindle whorls (3 - 5 grams) being used for spinning cotton and the heavier ones (30 - 35 grams) for spinning wool (Margeson 1993, page 184). This example weighs 30.16 grams, so it seems likely that it would have been used to spin a lighter material.
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2ECD31
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early 19th century brass trade weight of William IV. Stated date of 1836
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E92D2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An 18th century post-medieval trade weight. Closest parallel is an Exeter trade weight from the 18th century but it is lacking the three R's. The weight is of cast copper-alloy and the only depicting feature is that of three R's in a triangular placement around the centre ring above these R's are X marks in also a triangular placement.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 9th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bolton-le-Sands', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-825105
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One of two cast lead-alloy weight, each found in a different field on opposite sides of a narrow road. Although one is slightly more worn than the other, they both carry the same very distinct and unsual decoration; they were cast using the same mould. The weight is if double-conical shape with a broadened rim and central perforation (ca 8mm in diameter). While one side is decorated with a simple zigzag line, the other displays at least four different symbols: a heart-shaped symbol, a box/parcel-shaped symbol, a (very faint) eye-shaped symbol, a horned symbol and a symbol resembling a …
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Catterall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-825814
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One of two cast lead-alloy weights, each found in a different field on opposite sides of a narrow road. Although one is slightly more worn than the other, they both carry the same very distinct and unsual decoration; they were cast using the same mould. The weight is if double-conical shape with a broadened rim and central perforation (ca 8mm in diameter). While one side is decorated with a simple zigzag line, the other displays at least four different symbols: a heart-shaped symbol, a box/parcel-shaped symbol, a (very faint) eye-shaped symbol, a horned symbol and a symbol resembling a…
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Catterall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-952E68
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead bead or strap junction. It is circular in shape, but rectangular in cross-section, about 7mm high. The On the obverse, the underlying perforations for the straps/bands were repeated in a moulded the decoration. The location of the perforations can also be seen from the underside, but there is no additional moulded decoration. A more practical use for an item like this could have been as net sinker.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LANCUM-958433
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Shield-shaped lead weight of Medieval/Post Medieval date. It is plain and does not bear a coat of arms or any other markings.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-623D77
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat circular cast cu-alloy lead wight of James I (1603-1625) or, less likely, James II (1685-88). It is stamped with a crowned 'I' for James I or II, the sword of St Paul (mark of the city of London) and a ewer. Weighing 12.66g, it was probably a 1/2oz weight.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fleetwood area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-118551
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Double-conical lead weight with central vertical perforation, ca. 9mm wide. The weight is decorated in high-relief on both sides: while one surface displays a six pointed star with raised dots between the spikes of the star, the other shows a very crude pattern of alternating lines and dots. This kind of lead weight is a very frequent metal-detecting find, especially on ploughed and pasture land. There is some archaeological evidence for these lead weights to have been used as spindle whorls in the 16th/17th century (pers. comm. Dr Kevin Leahy), but has been suggested that they could …
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garstang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-26E612
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead-alloy weight, probably dating from the Medieval period. Its suspension loop is missing, but the main body is still intact. It is of bulbous shape, resembling the larger lead weights of the same period which display coats of arms.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-043A67
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight or spindle whorl of probable medieval date. The weight is circular and biconical with a central perforation and decorated with radiating lines. The diameter is 24mm and the weight 28g.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cuerden Hall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-ABDD14
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight or possibly a seal, probably of Post Medieval date from the 17th–19th century AD. The circular disc has a possible privy mark in the centre of one face. The reverse has a privy mark with a beaded border and looks like it originally had a lettering in it now illegible. A privy mark was originally a small mark or differentiation in the design of a coin for the purpose of identifying the mint, moneyer, or some other aspect of the coin's production or origin, for control purposes. The obverse has a central motiff of a flower possibly a rose. The diameter of the stamp i…
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PRESTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2E3C57
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large cast cu-alloy weight dating from the early modern period, i.e. c. AD1700-1900. The weight is circular without any decoration. Usually, this type of weight would have had official stamps in the centre of the obverse ring, but there do not seem to be any. This suggests that this weight dates from the late 19th or even early 20th century when these 'nests' of weights (which this weight belongs to) were very common. It weighs almost 100g which could suggest that it is a metric weight.
Created on: Friday 28th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 1st February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cockerham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E5C533
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead-alloy weight, probably a spindle whorl dating from the medieval period, i.e. c. 1200-1500. The spindle whorl is biconical in shape with a circular hole in the centre and tapering sides. It was made from a lead-alloy and probably had moulded decoration on the obverse and reverse. However, both faces of the whorl are very worn; it is difficult to assess the decoration. It may have been writing, but it is much more likely that it was a decoration composed of lines, zig-zags and possibly dots. In the "Finds Recording Guide", Geake (2001, 66) points out that: "The function of l…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 6th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-500ED5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast cu-alloy weight dating from the post-medieval period, i.e. c. late 17th or 18th century. On the obverse it bears a stamped crowned WR, crowned GR and LS which probably stand for William Rex and George Rex. The weight comes from a 'nest' of weights and was probably used as a trade weight (not a coin weight).
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cockerham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0FA5A3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy weight, probably home-made/unofficial, dating from the post-medieval or early modern period, i.e. c. AD1600-1800. The reverse is plain and shows that the weight was roughly cast whilst the obverse displays lettering withing two concentric circles. It is mirror-writing and it is not possible to make out the writing in the outer circle. However, the central writing reads '1/2lb'. It is very similar to a lead weight recorded under LANCUM-1440E4. Dimensions: Diameter: 47mm, thickness: 4mm and weight: 82.74g.
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 20th January 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-6DE136
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small circular cast cu-alloy weight, probably dating from the early 18th century. The weight was part of a 'nest of weights' and has a small rim around the upper surface in which a small weight would have fitted. The weight itself would have sat in the heavier weight underneath. The upper surface is stamped with a crowned 'WR' which probably means WILLIAM REX which would date the weight to the early 18th century.
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2010
Last updated: Friday 24th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0FF315
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead-alloy artefact resembling a cockle shell, possibly dating from the late post-medieval or early modern period, i.e. ca. 1700-1900. The artefact is heavy and looks very similar to sword or dagger pommels of the same period with a pyramidal shaped perforation through its entire length. The outer surface resembles that of a cockle shell, but in fact, it is more likely that it represents the various stages of the metal cooling down in 'waves'. A small splint of wood remains on the inside and it is more than likely that it was indeed used as a weight, maybe even as a counter weigh…
Created on: Friday 3rd September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leyland', grid reference and parish protected.