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Record ID: NLM-889AE0
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead gaming piece of unknown date. The undecorated hollow conical shaped gaming piece has the remains of a white powder inside. The length is 14.9mm, the diameter is 16.9mm and the weight is 11.63g.
Created on: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Ryther', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-A106C7
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible counter. Cast disc, with ruled lines scratched into one surface, forming a cross with at least two further ruled lines intersecting the junction of its arms. Perhaps an ephemeral game piece. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1800.
Diameter: 26.5mm, Thickness: 2.5mm, Weight: 9.58gms.
Created on: Friday 11th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-3B6105
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
: Lead
Weight or Playing Piece. A cast square flat-bottomed pyramidal object with raised ribs along each aris, meeting at the top. A range of comparable items are presented by Biggs and Withers (2000, nos. 81-84) as either standing weights or playing pieces for board games such as Hnafetafl. The top is dented. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1100.
Height: 17.85mm, Width: 13.71mm, Thickness: 13.68mm, Weight: 19.48gms.
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Middle Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-F25432
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy
Possible Cockshy. A solid cast model of a cockerel, made in a two-piece mould which has left visible flash along the centre line join; a thin sprue feeds into its lower breast. The cockshy was made to throw (or shy) at a tethered cockerel; though this is a past-time recorded from the 17th century, most surviving finds are thought to be of 18th-century date. This differs from cruder and heavier pieces from London and lacks a base. It is noted that the pursuit was most popular in country areas. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800.
Length: 37.54mm, Thickne…
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Friday 30th July 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Northorpe', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-846405
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead
Possible Weight, Gaming Piece or Counter. Cast discoid weight with irregularly scratched lines on one face. The mass of this object does not correspond to units of the Roman or later metrical systems, and so this object might equally be a counter for a board game; these are known from the Roman period onwards. Suggested date: Roman, 40-400.
Diameter: 18.6mm, Thickness: 3.9mm, Weight: 9.23gms.
Created on: Thursday 21st July 2011
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Middle Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-6787D0
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead game piece. Cast triangular-section tapering object with flat base and three points at its top, each point rising from the aris between adjacent sides. Lightly patinated on its sides, and more heavily on top.
A four sided version is presented by Biggs and Withers (Biggs N. and Withers, P. Lead Weights: The David Rogers Collection, White House Publications and Galata Print Ltd, Llanfyllin, page 33 no. 84), citing Viking examples (Graham Campbell, J. 1980, Viking Artefacts: A Select Catalogue, British Museum Publications, London, page 265 plate 307 no. 1). A chalk example from…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 26th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-3EB773
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible cast lead-alloy Early Medieval Gaming Piece. The solid dome shaped base has three inward pointing projections, which meet in the centre. The length is 21.5mm, the diameter of the base is 25.3mm and the weight is 52.80g.
Created on: Friday 23rd March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NLM-98D297
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dense Micaceous Stone, dark grey in colour, probably an igneous or metamorphic rock; test with magnet shows it to be non-ferrous (observations kindly offered by Wallace Collyer). Small object of sugarloaf form comprising two bun-shaped pieces of the same material joined, probably naturally. Flattened areas may suggest further similar elements may formerly have been attached to sides and base. The object would lend itself to use as a line-weight, tied at the junction of the two elements, or as a playing piece (as for Hnafetafl or similar board-games requiring the distinction of particu…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Dragonby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-ACB318
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and bone
Weight or playing piece. A neat conical flat-bottomed casting, with a polished hemispherical bone inset in its top. Objects of this form have been identified as either weights (for mensuration) or playing pieces; in the latter case the inset may distinguish a particular piece, such as the King in Hnafetafl; red and white pieces were used for board-games of this period. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 720-1066.
Height/Length: 14.58mm, Diameter: 13.31mm, Diameter of bone inset: 7.40mm, Weight: 14.33gms.
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Torksey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-594800
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead.
Flat irregular disc, patinated overall. Could be token or counter, but no sign of design or inscription. Diameter: 12.68mm, Weight: 1.74gms
Created on: Friday 12th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM1117
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Semi spherical with incised darts, internally hollow.
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 1998
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SOUTH KESTEVEN', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM39
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead object in a form suggestive of a bar of metal folded to form a block. Base flat.
Created on: Thursday 21st May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM5774
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Little lead cast conical object, worn. Viking game piece?
Created on: Friday 5th October 2001
Last updated: Friday 6th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM609
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Viking Borre-style conical object with birdlike head.
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM893
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Turban shaped , not Viking.
Created on: Friday 2nd October 1998
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'EAST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-BD17A8
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible lead gaming piece. The cone shaped piece is very worn and bends slightly to one side. The length is 17.4mm, the diameter of the base is 17.3mm and the weight is 23.29g.
Created on: Monday 17th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NLM-BD4475
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible lead gaming piece. The lead disc insised with irregular criss-cross lines on both faces. The length is 33.7, the width is 27.4mm, the thickness is 4.1mm and the weight is 24.44g
Created on: Monday 17th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NLM-0D6D38
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead Viking gaming piece. The solid dome-shaped gaming piece has three projections on the top. The diameter of the base is 12.0mm, the height is 13.1mm and the weight is 9.53g.
Created on: Monday 14th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NLM-BEA235
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six possible lead gaming pieces of unknown date. Two of the pieces are sub-triangular, three are pointed oval and one is sub-square. All of the pieces are flat on the bottom and slightly concave on the top face. They all vary in weight between 5.2 and 7.5g and slightly vary in size from 13.0mm to 14.0mm. They were all found within a metre of each other. The collective weight is 37.0g
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NLM-E5BCF4
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead Viking gaming piece. The hollow domed shaped gaming piece has four projections on the top. The diameter of the base is 13.2mm, the length is 16.4mm and the weight is 9.79g.
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Selby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-E60D27
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A misshapen lead Viking gaming piece. The flattened hollow domed shaped gaming piece has five projections on the top. The diameter of the base is 19.9mm, the length is 20.5mm and the weight is 12.52g.
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Selby', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NLM7252
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Solid domed with three projections.
Created on: Monday 14th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'NORTH THORESBY', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NLM6699
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Linear decoration in the face plain on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 18th November 2002
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SWINHOPE', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NLM6712
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular rounded face with a flat bottom, black in colour.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2002
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SWINHOPE', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NLM7196
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Conical shaped with a hollow centre.
Created on: Thursday 3rd April 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'NORTH THORESBY', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NLM7127
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Hollow cone with two projections at the top remaining evidence for knops running around the bottom. Hole in the side, post burial damage.
Created on: Friday 14th March 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SWINHOPE', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NLM7035
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Conical flat bottomed gaming piece/ standing weight.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'MIDDLE RASEN', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NLM6523
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Conical, uneven cast with one half higher than the other.
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2002
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'North Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-FC6F80
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Pyramid shape, with a hollow core, four ridges running down from the top to the middle section.
Created on: Friday 17th October 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NLM-12AD91
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead
Counter. Disc, perhaps cut from lead sheet, bearing a crudely incised cross on one side, and a pattern of rectilinear crossing lines on the other. Patinated overall. The grid pattern may represent a counting or game board; past-times using counters of this form such as Tables (resembling backgammon) or Alquerque (similar in some respects to draughts) might be played on such a gridded surface. It may have been intended to differentiate this counter from others. Both medieval playing pieces and playing boards were often improvised and ephemeral items.
Suggested date: Medieval…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tetney', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-810762
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible counter or playing piece. An irregular disc cut from cast lead sheet of thickness 1.2mm. A crudely incised lattice or grid comprises: on one side, five roughly parallel scored lines crossed by three similar lines at right angles to them, and, on the other side, four scored lines with three similar lines also approximately at right angles. The object appears to have been folded along a notional centre line, perhaps recently unfolded, and is lightly patinated overall.
The grid pattern is characteristic of playing boards for a range of games, including tabula (backgamm…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NLM-0F7555
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead game piece or counter. Cast discoid object. One side bears faint traces of a possibly figurative linear design moulded in relief. The other side bears the crisp impressions left by a small rouletting wheel. These describe an irregular shield shape with, possibly, the outline of a letter - perhaps an A - within it. Patinated overall. This reporter has usually observed rouletting marks on lead objects of modern date; the attempts to distinguish either one side from the other, or this object from similar objects, may hint at a use as a game piece. Suggested date: Modern, 1800-1900
…
Created on: Friday 19th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-126625
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead disc. Probably cut from sheet metal of thickness 1.7mm, One side bears a long cross, possibly with one or two other incised lines, though this latter point remains uncertain. The other side employs a similar cross as the basis for a more complex motif with a scratched star of four to eight points in each angle of the cross. An outer circle, which is again a convention imitating the appearance of medieval coins, is also represented. The crude working and the size of the object might qualify this as a game counter. These, along with the playing boards or surfaces, might often be ca…
Created on: Friday 19th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-DCCF4D
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy counter or possible gaming piece. Cast disc with an off-centre piercing of diameter 1.4mm. A cross is lightly incised on one side. Patinated overall. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500.
Diameter: 14.2mm, Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 1.96gms.
Created on: Thursday 19th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-5E9E92
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible counter, weight or game piece. Cast discoid counter with remains of a broad rim on one side; an off-centre pit appears on both sides and may be where an abortive attempt was made to drill through the object. The mass does not coincide with units or multiples of measurement of any period. If not used as a playing piece, this might have been used or reused as a hem weight, albeit enveloped by the hem rather than being sewn to it. The lack of patination may suggest a relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800.
Diameter: 24.9mm, Thickness: 3.1mm, W…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2013
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NLM-EBFBDB
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible gaming piece, as kindly suggested by the finder. Cast plano-convex object with eight integrally cast knops set equidistantly around a central knop on its convex side. The form is similar to that of Viking Age weights thought to have been used for checking silver bullion transactions. However, the mass of this object does not coincide closely with multiples of either the Scandinavian module of 4.07gms or the Dublin module of 4.43gms, and the closest it comes would be to five such units, which as an uneven value would be uncommon - though another object also representing a…
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Laughton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-FF0ABB
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible game piece. Cast pyramidal object with a trapezoid base which is markedly hollowed underneath, and ridges ascending where its other four sides meet. Patinated. The mass does not immediately suggest a function as a weight, and an interpretation as a playing piece may be more apt (Biggs and Withers 2000, page 33 nos 80-84). A comparable form is, however, presented amongst weights from Middle Saxon Flixborough (Wastling , L.M. 'Lead and lead alloy mensuration weights', in Evans, D.H. and Loveluck, C., Life and Economy at Early Flixborough, Excavations at Flixborough volume …
Created on: Monday 19th September 2016
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-86F1C5
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery with green glaze jack. Moulded rectangular playing piece with flat ends and corrugated sides, with a thick opaque mid green glaze overall. This would be used in games of manual dexterity; for example where a number of similar objects would be thrown into the air and caught on the back of the hand. Identical pieces continued to be made until recently. Suggested date: Modern, 1850-1950.
Length: 23.4mm, Width/Thickness: 21.3mm, Weight: 7.70gms.
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2020
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NLM-3D1377
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead counter or playing piece. Cast plain plano-convex counter with a mould line and rubbed-down scar from casting sprue on its flat underside. Patinated. A neatly finished piece made in a very long-lived form; in this case, the good condition may argue for a relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1900.
Diameter: 15.8mm, Thickness: 5.4mm, Weight: 6.63gms
Created on: Friday 17th June 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Alkborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-AD2F01
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead game piece. Cast counter with the relief depiction of the facing mask of a fox with pointed ears and muzzle. This is probably one of the two counters representing 'foxes', which were accompanied by twenty-four presumably plainer pieces representing 'sheep' in a board game of entrapment thought to have Scandinavian origins and known as Halatafl. The game is recorded from the 14th century onwards, and Edward IV is known to have owned a set. The game continued to be played into recent times, more recently being known as fox and hounds. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500.
Di…
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2016
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Faldingworth', grid reference and parish protected.
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