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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.

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: LANCUM-77CF78
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead-alloy steelyard weight of Roman date. The weight is sub-rectangular in form, tapering towards the top where a broken copper alloy suspension loop is still attached. Rectangular depressions can be seen on two sides and the weight is clearly marked II on one side. The weight has a dull cream/light brown coloured surface. Length: 32mm, width: 20mm.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 12th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURNLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-BD55C3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead weight spindle whorl (or possibly net sinker or trap weight) of conical shape. The spindle whorl is 29mm in diameter with a central perforation that is 9mm in diameter. If decorated, the decoration is hard to make out: it probably consisted of random lines in relief on the diagonal surface. 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 41.47 grams…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2006
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL175
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Decorated with raised dots and radiate lines
Created on: Monday 20th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE SALESBURY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL177
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular brooch or furniture fitting possibly made of lead/pewter. Disc with leaf decoration surrounding. Iron fastening on back. In two pieces.
Created on: Monday 20th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE CLITHEROE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL1822
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead toy cannon.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE DOWNHOLLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL657
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Four disc lead seal, traces of gilding. One of the main discs has a wheel-like device with a crown and a series of initials between the spokes - H A e Ca [R]. The other main disc has suffered more corrosion but shows a shield and probably a version of the company's heraldry - the arms of England and Scotland joined together and with a fish to the right at the top, all over a large globe.
Created on: Thursday 29th April 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE SCARISBRICK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL9
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete small lead powder measure. 17th century
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: LVPL90
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead harness boss, rosette design with central dome and scalloped edge. Traces of copper attachment on centre of reverse. Crudely designed.
Created on: Friday 26th June 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE ORMSKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4794C2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead weight, dating to the post-Medieval period. It is circular in plan, with a flat top and the bottom is indented.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Churchtown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-EF0DC6
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead musket shot, 17-19th century; possibly never fired since it is still a recognisable ball. Found in the same spot as a piece of clay pipe (short frgm. of shank)
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bickerstaffe Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-EDE8B4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead seal of cloth seal type with a central hole. Shows evidence of being bent in the middle. Late Medieval/Early Post-Medieval in date. Only one half of the seal remains but a segment of the lead strap which would have connected the other half - the riveted lead disc - is visible. The hole in this remaining half would have accomodated the connecting rivet. None of the cloth survives. The decoration on the seal is weak and worn. Markings do show a figure '9', the letter 'S' and depictions of root vegetables- possibly beetroot, turnip or radishes- indicating that the bag co…
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 27th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-FB3F36
Object type: BULLET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead bullet, dating to the 19th century, .577 calire. Hollow inside without grooves on the outside.
Created on: Monday 10th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LANCUM-B1C776
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete circular flat-cylindrical cast lead-alloy object, possibly a spindle whorl dating from the later medieval period, i.e. 1400-1600. The lead weight is flat-cylindrical in cross-section with a flat base and flattish top. It seems to have been decorated with indentations on one side only. The lead weight is basic and has suffered corrosion. Lead weights like these are common finds, but only rarely from excavated contexts which is why date and origin are difficult to pinpoint. Decorated spindle whorls are very rare finds in excavations, but are often found by metal detectorists.…
Created on: Friday 1st May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GARSTANG', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-FAD347
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead ampulla of Medieval date. The lower part of the ampulla is present, the rest missing due to old breaks. It is oval in shape and on one side there is scallop shell decoration with 13 ribs visible. There is no decoration visible on the other side.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Slyne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL10
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead ampulla with cast wheel or curved rays decoration on both sides. Damaged
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: LVPL102
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead round spindle whorl with central hole. Dot decoration on one side, dot and V's on the other. Distinct rim.
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: LVPL130
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead spindle whorl.
Created on: Wednesday 15th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE ORMSKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL1431
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Decorated with pellets and 'scrolls'
Created on: Friday 30th June 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE NEWTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL176
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Worn edges, surface decoration slightly worn
Created on: Monday 20th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE SALESBURY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL268
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular personal seal with legends of Lombardic lettering on both sides. Both inscriptions around central design Side 1 has a central petal design and the inscription S. ROGER + FIL' ROBERTI (Seal of Roger son of Robert). Side 2 has a central symmetrical abstract design. Suspension loop broken. Inscription reads S.WILL FIL'. BALDEWI' (Seal of William son of Baldwin). These inscriptions represent an unusual combination for a double-sided seal matrix. It is more common to find a seal and counter-seal of a single person, or the seal of a husband and wife.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 1998
Last updated: Sunday 26th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE SINGLETON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL282
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead spindle whorl
Created on: Friday 28th August 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE WEETON WITH PREESE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL489
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pilgrim's ampulla in the form of a costrel with a pair of suspension handles bridging the neck and body of the flask. In a crushed condition but complete. The circular ends are decorated with a daisy pattern. The body is decorated with vertical parallel lines and a panel of chevrons on one side of the neck.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd December 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE WHITTINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL848
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Large lead vesica shaped seal matrix. Central full figure of saint with oval shaped face which appears to have been stamped. The details of the dress are incised. Illegible legend in Lombardic script. Pierced handle at top of reverse.
Created on: Friday 1st October 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE GOOSNARGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM1651
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Simple cross design in moderate relief surrounded by circular border also in moderate relief, identical both sides. Casting spur/attachment site? Opposite 1 arm of cross. Completely oxidised surface, firm core. Appears POST-MED IN DATE
Created on: Friday 29th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-8202B4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead weight, roughly cylindrical in shape, centrally pierced.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B0D93
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Double-headed lead medallion, depicting two faces - one on either side. This item has been discussed in the Searcher (May 1986). One of the readers, Anthony Runge, writes: "... it dates from 1678, the year of the Popish plot. In that year, Sir Edmund Berry (Edmondbury) Gofrey, a magistrate, was strangle with his own cravat at the watergate of Somerset House. His body was hidden for a few days, then taken to Primrose Hill, at that time still in the countryside, and dumped in a ditch transfixed with his own sword. This sordid little episode, for which a number ofpeople were later hanged…
Created on: Monday 21st February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: LVPL2446
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Bi-convex. One side decorated with inner circle of adjoined circles with central pellets on a background of seven spokes. The other side has six radiating petals with pellet between each.
Created on: Tuesday 25th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-22E1F1
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead medieval pilgrims ampulla, decorated with a crown on the front, undecorated on back. It is complette bar a handle missing, which was broken of in the past.
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton with Scales', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-045934
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead bead, cylindical in shape with a large hole through middle
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garstang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AB5926
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Free-standing steelyard weight. It has a square base and instead of an integral iron or bronze hook. It has been pierced just below the top. Through this hole a hook would have been passed in order to suspend it from the steelyard. Lead weights are generally difficult to date. Official weights of the medieval or post-medieval period would have carried a maker's or other kind of official mark. Many of the unoffical and home-made weights that were also in circulation were plain and in most cases, even the shape does not tell us much about their origin or time of use.
Created on: Friday 18th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Priest Hutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-45FF34
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Small late 8th/early 9th century Viking lead weight into which has been inserted a piece of Irish, Scottish or Pictish metalwork of an 'Insular Art' style. While the weight itself was made from cast lead, the piece of inserted metalwork was made from cast cu-alloy which was subsequently gilded (small fragments of gilding remain in the grooves of the carved decoration). The decoration of the cu-alloy inlaid piece is fragmentary and seems to have been part of an ornamental interlacing, probably floral scrollwork border with a thinner, hatched border underneath.
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2005
Last updated: Saturday 26th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-107126
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Small cast lead rectangular Viking weight dating from 800 to 1100 AD. The upper surface has been decorated with a thin openwork copper-alloy plate; gilding survives in the grooves of the decoration. The design is unclear, but may represent two interlacing animals, perhaps birds seen in profile. A long neck ending in a head with round eye and long beak appears to extend from a body with a D-shaped wing decorated with two oblique grooves. A second long neck or body may cross over the first, and also end in a beak. There is a large roundel between the two beaks, apparently a space-fillin…
Created on: Tuesday 4th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GISBURN', grid reference and parish protected.