Back to simple search | Back to advanced search
You searched for:
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-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: 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.
Records per page: 10 20 40 100
Sort your search by:
Which direction?
Total results available: 3
Search server index: valhalla
You are viewing records: 1 - 3.
1 - 3 of 3 records.