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Record ID: LANCUM-4F56F7
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This report concerns three items found near Carnforth in Lancashire in 2010. The items were found close to the find-spot of a Viking hoard discovered in 1997 (TAR 1998-1999, no. 84), and it was considered possible that the new finds might be stray finds from that hoard.
Two of the finds are undiagnostic. Both appear to be a fairly base silver or lead alloy. One is a slender ingot with a section in the shape of an isosceles triangle with rounded angles, 72 x 8 x 8 mm, weight 39.38g, broken at one end. The form is known in the Viking Age, but it is undiagnostic, as the form is also kn…
Created on: Thursday 20th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Lancaster Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-B45BF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval penny of Aethelred II dating from c. AD991-997. Crux Type. North 770. Moneyer: Stegnbit; mint: Lincoln.
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bolton le Sands', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-C1F302
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66)
The closest match is Spink 1181 / North 827, but it has annulets in two of the rev. quarters, a possibility which is not catered for by North.
Created on: Monday 6th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-1E0CB1
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, cast silver pyramidal scabbard mount with gilding and gemstone inlay. The mount is in the form of a four-sided pyramid with a flat, square top. Each face is decorated with two rows of recessed, chip-carved interlocking triangles, five on the lower row and three on the upper. The recesses all retain gilding, while the rest of the mount is silver. The flat top comprises a cell containing a square red gemstone, possibly a garnet, back with a layer of gold foil. The corners of the garnet are slightly chipped.
The mount is hollow underneath and an integral bar, oval in sec…
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: LVPL-313081
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This report concerns a hoard of Anglo-Saxon silver pennies found on farmland near Preston, Lancs on March 14th, 2010. The coins were discovered by Alan Reynolds, while metal detecting. The precise find-spot is recorded, but it has been agreed that this will only be identified as 'near Preston' for public purposes.
The coins are all of a single type, the CRVX type of Æthelræd II, king of England (978-1016), issued in the 990s. There are three complete coins, substantial fragments of two more, and smaller fragments of a further two. The coins were found in fairly close proximity, w…
Created on: Monday 12th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th July 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Preston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-2ED334
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sceatta, Series E, variety A. One side has the 'porcupine design, with three bars enclosed. The other has TOTII enclosed in a square formed of dots, with perhaps crosses at each face above the sides of the square. These are of Continental origin, probably Frisia and date to c. AD 695-740
Dimensions: Diameter 10.88mm, and 1.57mm thick, it weighs 0.92g
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-65C1B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Note on discovery: all the small finds, except one coin, were found within a lead container (no. 198 below), at a depth of about 18 inches, while five of the larger, complete arm-rings were found underneath it. The objects are described in their uncleaned condition, in accordance with the terms of the Treasure Act 1996, and some of the details are currently obscured by adhering soil. After conservation, some of the weights may be slightly lighter, although there is unlikely to be any significant difference.
Surface metal analysis of a sample of six objects from the hoard conducted a…
Created on: Sunday 18th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Silverdale', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-E88AE2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver ingot fragment and fragment of white metal casting debris from the Carnforth area, Lancashire
The find consists of two items: a) a fragment of a silver ingot; and b) what appears to be a molten fragment of casting debris. Both objects were found on exactly the same spot as a small Viking hoard found in the 1990s, the Carnforth or Tewitfield Hoard, and are most likely unrecovered pieces from it.
a) Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the ingot fragment of 96 - 98%, the remainder being copper, gold and lead. Thi…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 30th January 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Carnforth Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SWYOR-80F0F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver Carolingian denier of Charles the Bald (AD 840-77) or later, monogram/METVLLO type dating from the AD 860s-c.925, mint: Melle, France. Weight 1.52g, Diam 20.9mm, Thickness 1mm. Ref: Coupland 2015: 70, 75.
The coin is in overall good condition but has a small tear at the top of the coin. On the obverse the bottom of this is crescent shaped and possibly slightly lifted from the surface suggesting that this tear resulted from the testing - pecking - of the coin to check its quality. Such pecking is typically related to a Viking bullion economy and would sugg…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Saturday 9th October 2021
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