Record ID: NLM-D2E0ED
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron horseshoe nail fragment. A small nail with curved shank arising from use and an expanded T-shaped or fiddle key head, tip lost. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500 Length: 25.3mm, Width (head): 11.7mm, Thickness: 4.4mm, Weight: 3.58gms
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Humberston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B05258
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible horseshoe nail. A small shank fragment with expanded head, head and shank both recently chipped. Suggested date: possibly Post-Medieval, 1600-1900 Length: 18.8mm, Width/Thickness (at head): 11.4mm, Weight: 3.39gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B029FD
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron probable nail. Shank of possibly rectangular section with an expanded square head, possibly with an expanded lower shank though this may merely be the distorting effect of corrosion. The mass of the object suggests the good survival of its metal core, and hence a relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1900 Length: 70mm, Width (head): 18.5mm, Thickness (lower shank): 13.7mm, Weight: 38.43gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-0F9027
Object type: MATTOCK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible mattock fragment. A round wrought iron eye or socket with a triangular projecting shank with a slight upward curve, terminating on a triangular point. A seam appears within the collar behind the springing of the blade. The latter is taken to be the stub of an overused blade, though its form is regular and might suggest re-shaping for re-use of a worn tool. In size this resembles the modern entrenching tool, albeit with a large socket. The good survival of metal, inferred from the object’s weight, tends to confirm a relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Mediev…
Created on: Monday 8th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wold Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C6A58C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron unidentified object, initially considered as a possible late medieval helmet. A single-piece concavo-convex oval bowl-shaped object of wrought iron. The object is bowl-shaped, but with flattened opposed sides and a consequent elongation in the opposite directions, with one end rising higher than the other. It is entirely plain, without any discernible attempt to introduce surface texture. It was presumably made from sheet metal by being beaten to shape over a former. It was discovered in one piece, though the top of the crown was detached in the course of excavation. One side …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Last updated: Friday 16th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hatcliffe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C93D02
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron: two nail fragments (a and b). The heads of two wrought iron nails which are thickly coated or embedded in lead, probably poured to solidify around the head and upper shank of the nails. Patinated overall. This may represent an attempt to retard corrosion, and is encountered in the structural use of lead, and also when iron is used to cramp masonry. In the latter case, a lead coating retards the expansion of rusting iron which might split the stone. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800. Length (a): 17.1mm, Thickness/Diameter: 15.3mm, Weight: 16.61gms. Lengt…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-207E88
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Wrought Iron. Possible Sword or Dagger Quillon. Bar of wrought iron expanded for a rectangular hole of 18mm by 12mm at its mid-point, and again for slots of length 11mm and 8mm at its ends. In this interpretation, the central slot would accommodate the tang of a substantial blade; however, the slots at either end would in this case relate to decorative fittings. The object is finely balanced at its centre point. A function related to the hafting of a tool might also be considered, as might a function in a bridle suite. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400. Length: 118mm, Width: 20m…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2011
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnoldby le Beck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5DBCD3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron key. Rotary key for a door, with oval bow, stem of square section - though this may arise from the flaking of corrosion - which protrudes as a more rounded spike from the bit, which bears a single cleft expanded horizontally at the mid-point of bit. The form was long-lasting; the bow is oval rather than kidney-shaped, which may hint at a later date. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500. Length: 143.9mm, Width (bow): 45.7mm, Thickness: 8.3mm, Weight: 67.84gms.
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 19th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnoldby le Beck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B13D95
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Key fragment. Bit of a key with three forward-pointing prongs with two clefts between them, perhaps for a padlock. The rectangular section of the shank is a result of corroded iron flaking from a metal core. Suggested date: Medieval, 1100-1300. Length: 64.3mm, Width (bit): 15.8mm, Thickness (shank): 6.1mm, Weight: 9.63gms.
Created on: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashby cum Fenby', grid reference and parish protected.