Record ID: NLM-692127
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hand grenade filler base plugs. Fifteen cylindrical flat-based plugs from hand grenades. Each has a broad circumferential groove and an internal ridge. The ridges occasionally bear numbers: those legible include: 9/93 and 0, the latter probably a partial survival. The plugs were inserted into the base of the steel bomb casing, and were usually the only part to retain its form on detonation. In the quantities reported, they may suggest a small-scale episode of military practice, perhaps by a local Home Guard unit. The defended status of the coast meant that wartime public …
Created on: Monday 14th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cleethorpes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6935B2
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hand grenade filler base plugs. Fourteen cylindrical flat-based plugs from hand grenades. Each has a broad circumferential groove and an internal ridge. The ridges occasionally bear numbers: those legible include: 9/93 and 0, the latter a partial survival. The plugs were inserted into the base of the steel bomb casing, and were usually the only part to retain its form on detonation. In the quantities reported, they may suggest a small-scale episode of military practice, perhaps by a local Home Guard unit. A similar group of plugs of slightly larger size was also distingui…
Created on: Monday 14th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cleethorpes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-669B53
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hand grenade filler caps. A pair of discoid objects, both of diameter c.33mm and thickness c.12mm, with a screw thread of four or five turns close to their flat external face below a ribbed or fluted circumference, and with three internal rebates - in one case a circular screw-threaded hole of diameter 5.5mm flanked by rectangular cut-outs, in the other a similar central hole flanked by smaller (5mm diameter) blind round holes. These plugs would usually survive the explosion of a grenade in one piece, while the iron casing was intended to disintegrate as shrapnel. The use…
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-5DB1DC
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy grenade filler plug. Cast discoid object, flat on one side with a flat basal indentation within a border, and with a rounded ridge occupying most of the other side. These components are commonly the only part of a hand grenade to survive its detonation in recognisable form. This must suggest wartime practice in the use of grenades, perhaps by a local Home Guard unit, or by troops tasked with harbour or coastal defence. Suggested date: Modern, 1939-1945. Diameter: 21.3mm, Thickness: 8.0mm, Weight: 18.83gms
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9914B1
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy grenade fragment. Cast discoid filler cap from a hand grenade, with a border standing proud on its outer side, and with a rounded and possibly sheared convex surface on the other. Although its iron casing was designed to fragment, the filler cap usually remained in one piece when the grenade exploded. This was presumably deposited in the course of military training, an activity from which this is almost a 20th-century type fossil. Suggested date: Modern, 1939-1945. Diameter: 20.2mm, Thickness: 8.7mm, Weight: 17.99gms
Created on: Monday 14th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-77BD29
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy grenade fragment. Cast discoid and lightly waisted filler plug from the base of a hand grenade; the 'waist' is the sheared relict of a screw thread. These objects are often found in areas used for the training of troops, and would usually survive the detonation of the bomb relatively intact. Abraded. Suggested date: Modern, 1916-1945 Diameter: 22.6mm, Thickness: 9.1mm, Weight: 24.11gms
Created on: Monday 16th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D7D12D
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy grenade filler cap. Cast circular plug from the base of a hand grenade, with a broad bevelled rib on one side, flat on the other. Abraded. Presumably from military practice on the beach; the filler cap is the part of a grenade which usually retains its form when the object explodes, though it may be thrown far from the site of its explosion. Suggested date: Modern, 1915-1945. Diameter: 21.2mm, Thickness: 9.9mm, Weight: 23.32gms
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cleethorpes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-EBE2BB
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy grenade filler caps. Seven flat discoid filler caps, from exploded hand grenades (a-g). These may show that the foreshore was used for military exercise. Each has one flat side with basal groove and one with a broad bevelled ridge. The variety of forms and dimensions may suggest at least three varieties of similar construction are represented. Suggested date: Modern, 1915-1945. a) Diameter: 22.3mm, Thickness: 8.2mm, Weight: 20.08gms b) Diameter: 22.1mm, Thickness: 8.1mm, Weight: 20.52gms c) Diameter: 21.2mm, Thickness: 8.9mm, Weight: 21.45gms d) Diameter: 21mm…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cleethorpes', grid reference and parish protected.