Record ID: NLM-DB6747
Object type: BOBBIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy possible bobbin fragment. One end of a hollow cylindrical object whose diameter expands from the surviving end, where it is 22mm wide. The end has a central aperture of diameter 3.7mm with six slightly angled ribs on the outer side to strengthen it at what is here interpreted as a spindle hole. The outer sides bear perhaps ten low longitudinal ribs; for a weaving bobbin these would presumably help hold the first threads wound. Patinated overall. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800. Diameter (maximum): 23.4mm, Height: 13.6mm, Thickness (wall between ribs): 1.4mm, W…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 11th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Northorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-479B23
Object type: BOBBIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible bobbin. A possibly lathe-finished cast baluster-shaped rod with a protruding round section lug, now broken, at one expanded end, and a drilled pit of diameter 3mm and depth c.7mm at the other. Three circumferential grooves at the central expansion and a single groove at either end might formerly have retained inlay, though none remains. Suggested date: Unknown, Medieval, 1250-1500. Length: 37.5mm, Diameter: 5.7mm, Weight: 5.00gms
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Usselby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1988AA
Object type: BOBBIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bobbin. A cast round-section rod of baluster form with expanded ends with a lug projecting from one and a hollow of diameter 2.5mm at the other, waisted, with a central double collar. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800 Length: 39.4mm, Diameter: 8.1mm, Weight: 7.43gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9ABD65
Object type: BOBBIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark green copper alloy pin, possibly a bobbin. Suggested date: Early Post-Medieval, 1500-1600 Length: 51mm, Width: 3.3mm, Thickness: 3.3mm, Weight: 2.46gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-CFE03E
Object type: BOBBIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron bobbin. Cast cotton-reel-shaped object with expanded flat ends and a bulbous mid-part with a prominent mould line, and with a central longitudinal hole of diameter 17.1mm. This may be from a mechanical loom, perhaps an early version of those which would fill the factories of 19th-century Britain. The use of cast iron for a relatively small component is particularly unusual. The weight still falls so close to a round metric unit as to perhaps suggest manufacture on the European continent, where the metric system was introduced under Napoleon c.1800, and where it was presumably adop…
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fordington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4FBE48
Object type: BOBBIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible bobbin fragment. Part – perhaps two-thirds – of a small baluster-shaped spindle with a medial expansion of diameter 4.3mm with incised grooves to either side, across one of which it is broken, and with a drilled hole of diameter 2mm in its remaining expanded end. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850 Length: 23.3mm, Diameter (at end): 5.5mm, Weight: 1.67gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.