Record ID: LIN-A4A5A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A broken lead disc with decoration on both sides. The disc measures 18mm in diameter and is as thin as a silver hammered coin; much thinner than the range of post-medieval tokens. One side appears to have a star or cross in the centre, with lines extending from the angles to form triple stranded terminals. Between each line is a worn crescent motif. The other side is worn but also contains decoration. Its size, thinness and decoration somewhat recall the portrait type coins of Offa. However, it may alternatively be an earlier 7th-century forgery based on either Merovingian or Angl…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-C98F67
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible contemporary copy, in lead, of an Anglo-Saxon silver sceatta. It is circular and has incised motifs on both sides. One side is decorated with a crescent of diagonally hatched lines, similar to the 'porcupine' imagery seen on Series E sceattas. In this instance, however, the diagonal lines run in the opposite direction to those on Series E sceattas. The decoration on the other side is more difficult to determine, and appears to comprise a series of geometric lines.
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hale area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-504CCC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead disc, stamped on both faces using a sceatta, on one face a cross, on the other what may be a bust, probably produced using a series D type 2c, c. AD.675-750. The function of this unusual object is unknown. In the post medieval period, dies of lead stamped in this way using Nuremberg jettons are known and are generally classified as weights. This object may perhaps have had a similar function.
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Spatial data recorded.