Record ID: LANCUM-2FE6EC
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy cat. It is a plump, contented cat in the seated position. The back of the model is quite crude although the features of the hip and leg are present, but the face is well moulded. It has been painted yellow. It seems to be a bred, domesticated cat and this is therefore probably a model of a twentieth century cat. The finder notes that the base is possibly damaged and it may have sat on a platform of some sort. Dimensions: It is 65mm high and 65mm wide and 200m deep, it weighs 102.10g
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Weir', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-07A2D2
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy and gemstone seal matrix. The copper alloy frame is oval in plan and semicircular in section. The face has two parallel lines around the frame as decoration. The shoulder of the frame is decorated with oblique lines. Above this frame are two semicircular hoops. These are split, forming four arms which are monted on the frame with circular rolls. The arms then meet above the centre of the frame. At the top is a circular mount for fixing to a chain. The whole has been gilded. The seal itself is oval, make of a thick section of a clear material, possibly quartz. Inscrbed in…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-19F929
Object type: CANDLE SNUFFER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy candle snuffer. It is conical with a thickened section around the base and it has a knop on the top. A square hole in the side would indiate where the handle fitted. The other side is split, probably along the site where the sheet metal was joined.  Similar candle snuffers on the database are NLM-24D116 and YORYM-19CA39, with an overall date range of 1650-1850 Dimensions: It is 70mm high and the base is diameter 32mm, it weighs 24.34g
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-191F29
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily clipped silver Roman siliqua of the House of Theodosius, dating to the period c.AD 378-388 (Reece period 20). Obverse: […], Diademed, (draped and cuirassed?) bust right. Reverse: [VIRTVS ROMANORVM], Roma seated facing on throne holding globe and sceptre. Unclear mint: []//[] Dimensions: 11.5mm diameter Many thanks to Dr. Andrew Brown for his identification of this coin
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-18D99A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two copper alloy possible polyhedral weight. They are basically a cylindrical shape but are faceted unevenly on all sides. All of the faces have a pattern of parallel lines on them. Their weight fits neither the Scandinavian nor Dublin Viking unit weight systems, inspite of this similar shaped weights have been found at various sites of the Viking Great Army camps, see Hadley and Richards (2021) and British Museum accession number 2006.1203.104, dated to 9th century AD. Such shapes are also seen on for example pin heads (BM 1985.1101.11…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-522B95
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy terret ring, probably of the Roman period. The ring is oval in shape with faceted faces around the radius, which means that the ring is almost diamond shaped in section. Under the ring is a an oval 'skirt', although very narrow and not  the usual wider skirt associated with these artefacts. This skirt is decorated with notches around the edge. Under this is a rectangular. mount with a rectangular central hole. Lewis in LPFG Datasheet 6 classifies these as being Continental in origin. Dimensions: 38mm long and 35mm wide, it weighs 29g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Yealand Redmayne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F08A34
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three lead alloy rivets or nails. One is largly complete, with an oval head and a longhsank which is curved into a hooked shape. The second is the remains of the shank only, and the third has a shorter section of the shank and the oval head, which is pushed flat. The shanks are all sub square in section. The heads are 6mm maximum diameter
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Scotforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F02C07
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy token or weight. One side is heavily decorated with perhaps curved shapes, the other has a circle maybe with a number in it. The amount of wear makes it difficult to discern the pattern. It varies in thickness. It is probably post medieval in date. Dimensions: It is 33mm diameter and 7mm thick, it weighs 47.13g
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Quernmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-EFFFBD
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable scoop for cosmetic or toilet use. The material is uncertain but is probably lead alloy. It is formed of a short remnant of the shaft, which is triangular in section, the back being flat and the front having a ridge down the centre. It terminates in a wider, flattened circular section which is half the thickness of the shaft, and would scoop a small amount of power or similar. Like SWYOR-BFF380, there is not enough diagnostic material remaining to date but it may be Roman in period. Dimensions: It is 30mm long and the scoop is 8.5mm wide, it weighs 4.19g
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Scotforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-EFB7A0
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy token or gaming piece. On one side it has the design of a six petalled flower with a central raised dot, on the other side is a cross hatch design formed of perpendicular straight lines. It is not complete, some loss od material has occured in two parts Dimensions: 18mm diameter and 1mm thick, it weighs 2.79g
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Quernmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E2A68E
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete fragment of a copper-alloy cast flat axehead of Bronze Age date. Only approximately a quarter of the head remains, and it is undecorated. It has an even green patina, and some pitting Dimensions: It is 67.47mm in width. At the blade tip it is 60.60 in length and 42.52 at the narrowest point. It is 8.98mm in thickness and reduces to 2.96mm at the blade. It weighs 150.15g.
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wiswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E414FA
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular lead alloy weight .It may have had initials impressed into it at some time as there is a suggestion of IB on one face, but this is by no means certain. The other face is slightly scratched and damaged. It has an even white patina Dimensions: It is 39.47mm in diameter, 9.93mm thick and weighs 108.93g.
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cliviger', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-ACFF33
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny, probably of Edward I, possibly class 10. Obverse: bust facing, EDWARD_______  Reverse long cross, three pellets in each quadrant. CIVI TAS DUR EME Dimensions: It is 18.36mm diameter and 0.73mm thick, it weighs 1.16g
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cliviger', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E2918E
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
NEED COMP A medieval copper alloy pin head. It is in the form of a facetted cube with rounded corners, with an narrowing extension underneath which must have then formed the pin, which is missing. The faces are decorated with varying numbers of impressed dots. One face has one dot on the cube and one on the extension, another (turning the artefact clockwise) two on the cube only, the next one and two under, the final face one and two under. One face aslo has a mould line which may be deliberate as it passes between the two dots, but this is not proven. Dimensions: It i…
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Great Mitton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E40A7F
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
NEED COMP A probable lead alloy weight or spindle whorl. It is circular with a slighty off centre circular hole cast in the centre. There are no markings, the whole has an even grey patina Dimensions: It is 28.66mm in diameter, 9.51mm internal aperture diameter, 3.80mm in thickness, and weighs 16.08g.
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cliviger', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-61EF17
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy terret ring. It is worn and in two pieces but the ring is apparent. Below this is a rectangular fitting which would have been slotted into its mount. It has a dark brown patina. A similar object is WMID-77F1D4, which is dated to 100 BC to AD 200 Dimensions: The ring is 33mm diameter and it is 35mm high overall, it weighs 6.14g
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Barrowford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AD0C37
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy button. It is circular in outline and slightly domed. It has a pattern moulded into it. Around the circumference are four what may be stylised thistle heads, formed of a circle-within-circle with a triangular shape with dots filling it coming out from this. Between these are stylised petals made of two arcs with a central leaf shape.There are larger dots around the circumference. The back is plain, the fastening loop is broken, only a small stump remains. There is a casting line across the back and two small indentations, which may be  post-depositional.&nbs…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cliviger', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AD1B57
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn copper alloy jetton of uncertain provenance Dimensions: It is 24.05mm diameter and 0.46mm thick, and weighs 0.86g
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cliviger', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-619352
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead alloy gaming pieces which have possibly been moulded in a cockle shell. They are sub oval in plan, and a rounded conical shape. They are flat on the bottom. Both have an even grey patina. Dimensions: One is 13mm diameter and the other 14mm, they are both 11mm high and weigh 6.7g and 6.03g respectively
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near West Bradford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6180D3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A degraded copper alloy strap end, that may have been silver plated but this has largely been lost. It is a long, thin triangular shape, half of the top is broken away and there is some missing. There are the remains of a pattern on one face, it is too worn to discern but may include a fleur de lys and dots. If so this would place it in the medieval period Dimensions: It is 63mm long and 16mm at the widest point, it weighs 9.52g
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Great Mitton', grid reference and parish protected.