Record ID: NLM-A22CE4
Object type: PISTOL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Steel and stone. Revolver. A small 'hand-bag-sized' revolver with a polished stone handle of two plano-convex plates secured by flat copper alloy rivets. Probably of 6mm or 0.22 inch calibre with a six shot revolving magazine. Suggested date: Modern, 1930-1960. Corroded. This object was kindly recorded by Cameron Brown. Length: 105mm, Width: 69mm, Thickness (handle, at butt): 21.3mm, Weight: 149.78gms.
Created on: Thursday 16th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM664
Object type: PISTOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Butt of a horse pistol.
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 1998
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FENLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D487F7
Object type: PISTOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy handle fragment, possibly from a post-medieval or modern pistol or other weapon. Cast plano-convex section straight-sided tapered object fragment with deeply cross-cut decoration producing a pattern or rhomboids across its surface, broken at either end, perhaps across a fixing point at the wider end. Now slightly curved, though whether this is an original feature is unclear. The patterning might be apt to a function as a side plate for a grip handle from which this piece has become detached. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 38.8mm, Width: 16.2mm, Thic…
Created on: Monday 18th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A1D863
Object type: PISTOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, kindly identified as part of a pistol or musket of English manufacture by Kevin Leahy. Kevin comments as follows: 'I think I know what this is: the long lug with a pin through it is typical of the way that English guns were fixed together and I think that what you've got is a bit of trigger guard from a flintlock or percussion gun'. Cast curved plate with U-shaped ends, one broader than the other, and with a long U-shaped lug projecting from its concave side. The lug has a filled drilled hole of diameter c.2mm, suggesting the object pivoted when in use. A fur…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Normanby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.