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Record ID: LVPL103
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Cone shaped weight with central hole. Diameter of base 32mm.
Created on: Wednesday 8th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE LATHOM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL15
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Chunky silver finger ring with crude line decoration. Septagonal in outline, plain bezel. Of unknown date or origin.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE AUGHTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0EF697
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead object, probably a weight. It has two circular faces one of which is flat and has two incised lines and an indented dot in the center, the second face is slightly concave. The first face (diameter 15mm) tapers out to the larger face (diameter 22mm)and the circumference is rough with raised vertical lines running from one face to the other.
Created on: Friday 23rd July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL2059
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Fine grained sedimentary stone. Tapered to a narrow point through use as a hone. Distinct blade mark on one surface.
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-0418E3
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Oblate hammerstone made from quartzite the surface of which is dark brown. Around the equator is a band of marks left by hammering. On the opposite side of the equator is a smaller battered area. Not datable but probably Prehistoric. 51.6 x 49.6mm diameter x 40.8mm High.
Created on: Sunday 30th June 2013
Last updated: Sunday 30th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laneshaw Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-37A352
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
~~The find consists of a cut metal fragment, perhaps from an ingot; weight 3.58 grams. Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum identified the metal as a tin-lead alloy with iron and some antimony, but no detectable precious metal. The find does not therefore qualify as Treasure under the stipulated criteria of the Treasure Act. B.M. Ager Curator Department of Prehistory & Europe British Museum
Created on: Saturday 7th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Slyne-with-Hest', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-24E232
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A fitting or mount, undecorated, and unlikely to be a finger-ring.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-FF5521
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Two amorphic piece of copper alloy slag. Found in an area with Bronze Age and Roman artefacts. The surface is characterised by lumps and hollows and has a tin element is indicated relating to bronze working. The slag has a good deep green patina, similar to that seen on some local Bronze Age metalwork, so it may date from this period. If this lump of slag is indeed Bronze Age, it is interesting that it has survived and was not re-melted. Fragments of casting waste like this one are hard to date. Scientific analysis of the elemental composition of the copper alloy would allow a more acc…
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.