Record ID: NLM-AB283B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast flat discoid weight; patinated, with deep and recent gouge on one edge. The mass may suggest this to have represented two averdepois ounces. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1800 Diameter: 38.2mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 54.93gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-865EE6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead probable weight. Cut fragment, probably from a cast flat sided discoid weight, of which this is about one third. Patinated overall. The mass may suggest this to represent six Viking Age Scandinavian units (of 4.07gms) for the measurement of silver bullion; the mass of this object also coincides approximately with a Viking ounce known as an ora or ore. The subdivision of larger weights intended for use with this system is occasionally reported. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-950. Length: 23.2mm, Width: 14.3mm, Thickness: 10.3mm, Weight: 23.57gms.
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Audlin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B5A66C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast cylindrical weight with a possibly drilled aperture in its base. The base is slightly recessed from shrinkage when the object was cast in an open mould; patinated. The mass may suggest this to represent six [slightly overweight] Viking Age units of 4.07gms, or one overweight ora/ore, the contemporary equivalent of the ounce. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-950. Diameter: 16.7mm, Height: 15.0mm, Weight: 25.34gms
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2016
Last updated: Friday 26th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B5D2E3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight fragment. Cast weight with an upstanding rim which takes the thickness where it occurs to c.9mm, broken with the loss of one side or end; patinated. A pair of deep triangular gouges on the flat underside may be a deliberate marking. It is uncertain whether the original form was sub-rectangular or discoid, the latter being more common. The uncertain extent of loss vitiates any correspondence with known or suspected standards. Suggested date: Unknown, 43-1750. Length: 36.2mm, Width: 38.8mm, Thickness (clear of rim): 8mm, Weight: 65.91gms
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2016
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DA3590
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy weight. Cast discoid rimmed weight from a nesting set, with a pit in its base suggesting finishing on a lathe. The upper, concave, side bears a circular stamp which may suggest the weight had been checked. Its mass does not immediately suggest correspondence with systems of weights current in the post-medieval period, though it comes close to a value of 10 scruples of 1.29gms according to the Apothecaries' system of 1400 and thereafter (Egan 1998, table 14). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650. Diameter: 22.5mm, Thickness (at rim): 5.4mm, Weight: 12.76gms
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ECF16B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with a slightly sunken surface on one side, possibly from manufacture in an open mould. Dented and patinated. Weights of this form and mass from London do not include any equivalent to this, but the mass here may suggest the object represents twelve [slightly overweight] pennyweight under the English troy system introduced from the 1350s or 1370s (Egan 1998, table 14 - the cited value is 18.70gms). Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500. Diameter: 19.6mm, Thickness: 8.4mm, Weight: 18.95gms
Created on: Friday 20th May 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6B524B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy weight. Cast discoid weight with a low upstanding bevelled rim, probably from a nesting set. A circumferential line on the concave side and a central pit may both suggest the object to have been finished on a lathe. On the same surface, a pair of juxtaposed marks, each with a pit at one end of a line, might refer to either value or checking. A further stamped device, resembling a vessel with broad base and spout, may indicate official checking. The system the weight observes is uncertain, though its mass equates to just over seven drachms under the averdepois system. Sugg…
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6B5E2E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid hem weight, of flat-sided form with a rounded edge, and with a pair of tapered drilled stitching holes of diameter 4.8-2.4mm. The metal is unpatinated, indicating a relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Diameter: 25.3mm, Thickness: 5.8mm, Weight: 25.28gms
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AB6848
Object type: WATCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy watch winder. A probably die-stamped winding key, with a circular round-section loop with opposed lugs: one a stepped winding key. A larger [diameter 22mm] ring of composite construction retaining some of its original tensile strength passes through the central loop of the key, and itself has a small [now] open ring threaded onto it. This appears to represent the repair, and ultimately the loss or discard, of a watch winder's attachment to a fob chain. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length (of key): 22.8mm, Weight: 4.08gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-864297
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy vessel fragment. Rim shard from a small cauldron of estimated rim diameter 140mm and wall thickness 1.6mm with a thickened and everted rim. Sooting traces remain on the outside, though partly cleaned away. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500. Height: 41mm, Width: 50.7mm, Thickness (rim): 4.5mm, Weight: 29.03gms.
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Audlin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A2C70E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable vessel fragment. Straight cast D-section leg from a small vessel, with a flat back and three facets on its outer face. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700. Length: 26.1mm, Width: 11.0mm, Thickness: 5.2mm, Weight: 7.80gms
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AB51C4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy unidentified object. Solid cast cylindrical object with a broad studded collar close to one flat end, and expanded with a conical terminal whence projects a rectangular-section lug with broken end at the other. Here, though in appearance only, it resembles the mouthpiece of a whistle. Patinated. It seems likely the flat lug may have continued for some length, and the studded collar at the surviving terminal may hint at a mechanical function involving engagement with other components, perhaps as a spindle. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 45.6mm, Diameter:…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ABA83D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Cast object resembling a miniature spanner in its form, comprising a tapered rectangular section shank with a penannular loop at its broader and expanded end, and broken at its narrower thinner end. The loop has a central aperture of diameter 7.7mm. The loop is dished by wear on one side and flat on the other, suggesting a spindle passed through it and rotated when the object was in use, so positioned as to inflict only unilateral wear. It is now uncertain whether the open form of the loop is the result of this wear or is part of the original form. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Audlin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B5FDDA
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Cast D section bar with a central circular socket of internal diameter 13.7mm; a flattened facet appears on one part of the bar. It appears a rim, possibly circular and of triangular section, extended from the ends of the bar to enclose the whole figure, though only its elements at the ends of the bar and one quarter of the putative circumference remain. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1900. Length (as found): 44.8mm, Width (as found): 24.1mm, Thickness: 9.6mm, Weight: 19.90gms
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2016
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ED14A9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A small oval plate of sheet metal with a pair of holes of diameter c.2mm at one end. Lightly bent. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1900. Length: 20.1mm, Width: 17.6mm, Thickness: 0.5mm, Weight: 1.08gms
Created on: Friday 20th May 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ED1E72
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A thin plate of lentoid form, expanded towards its pointed end and broken at the other, possibly where it was looped. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1900. Length: 34.2mm, Width: 6.3mm, Thickness: 1.4mm, Weight: 1.45gms.
Created on: Friday 20th May 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9B1733
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Chunky copper alloy object of uncertain purpose, clearly Viking, possibly Anglo-Scandianvian, silvered, decoration almost totally worn. Seen by Anne Pedersen, she has no ID either. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000 Length: 37.8mm, Width: 35mm, Thickness [?]: 3.5mm, Weight: 32.83gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-0443EE
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Cast sub-cruciform openwork frame with bilateral moulded floral or vegetal decoration around its outer edges, and with a small [length 8.2mm] rounded oval lug with a broken central projection at its narrower end. The latter was intended to engage another component permitting rotary movement in the manner of a swivel. The central part of the object has a trefoil aperture, with a larger rhomboid space below it [as illustrated]. Slightly bent. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700 Length: 65.5mm, Width: 38mm, Thickness: 4.4mm, Weight: 21.16gms
Created on: Friday 11th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-045EA3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron unidentified object. A fragment of lead, probably melted or partly melted, which is trapped in or associated with a possibly sub-triangular or oval iron loop, now heavily corroded. The grey tint of the non-ferrous metal may suggest a relatively recent date. This may simply be an object reduced to its currently mysterious state by incorporation in a bonfire. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 37.0mm, Width: 24.8mm, Thickness: 9.5mm, Weight: 10.84gms
Created on: Friday 11th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-044E34
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy gun. One side of a cast handle from a miniature musket, rifle or pistol with ornate moulded vegetal decoration on the stock, and with diaper-work texture on its lower slotted edge. The end of an oval plate on the side of the gun is represented where the stock would give way to the gun barrel, with further curvilinear decoration. The plate was punctuated by two moulded studs, which is where it has broken. This is one half of a composite object which would probably have retained a simple ferrous metal mechanism including a trigger between its halves; the decay of iron may…
Created on: Friday 11th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CA8AE8
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead toy. Cast figurine with a slightly bulbous and rounded base, in the form of Santa Claus holding a small Christmas tree in the crook of his arm. The figure is robed, bearded and moustachioed, with a brimmed or fur-trimmed hat or hood tapering to a flat-ended point. An incised line separates the base of the robed figure from the broad rounded base of the object, perhaps to emphasise the fur trim of the hem of his robe. Patinated overall. The introduction of the Christmas Tree to Britain is traditionally associated with Prince Albert (1819-1861) in the mid-19th century, and the imag…
Created on: Thursday 13th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-6C4B6B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible token. Cast oval object with one face dished as if stamped, possibly with a motif although no detail is now clearly discernible except a possibly billeted or pelleted edge. The reverse bears five or six finely scratched lines forming a crude star or other radial figure. Patinated. The mass is close to one [slightly overweight] quarter of an averdepois ounce, so a function as a weight might be entertained. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700. Length: 22.9mm, Width: 19.7mm, Thickness: 2.6mm, Weight: 7.60gms
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-047A0C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy token. Milled discoid ten shilling token of the Wakefield Industrial Society (1867-1962). Both sides bear a circumferential legend: WAKEFIELD INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY and, in a central roundel: 10/- / LIMITED. Suggested date: Modern, 1945-1962 Diameter: 21.9mm, Weight: 2.33gms, die axis: 12
Created on: Friday 11th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6B6677
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy probable tobacco jar lid handle. Cast discoid handle with a waisted shank above a slight expansion, below which a round section lug would have engaged a lid of different material. This is a plainer example than many, and its good condition may argue a relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850. Diameter: 20.2mm, Height: 24.2mm, Weight: 14.47gms
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-98966D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap fitting. Cast flat rectangular loop with a short [8.4mm] stalk projecting from the middle of one of its longer sides; the stalk terminates in a pair of rounded protrusions. The protrusion may have served as a fastener, perhaps passing through a slit in a leather strap. The opposite long edge is slightly concave on its outer side, perhaps through wear. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700 Length: 32.5mm, Width: 28.1mm, Thickness: 2.7mm, Weight: 7.84gms
Created on: Thursday 25th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B5B9F9
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy spur fragment. Cast six pointed rowel from a rowel spur, with a central drilled spindle hole of diameter 5mm. The points are differentially worn, perhaps suggesting the rowel had jammed in one position before its eventual disuse. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650. Diameter: 24.3mm, Thickness: 2.8mm, Weight: 2.71gms
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-97F12C
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy spoon fragment. Cast rounded terminal from a spoon handle, bearing white metal plating. Four stamped maker's marks on the back are presumably intended to resemble hallmarks, which they are not. In angular or shield-shaped hollows, they read: [-]/ &/ A / S / PEP; the first three in a Gothic script, the last group of smaller letters in modern style. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1940 Length: 28.2mm, Width: 15.1mm, Thickness: 1.8mm, Weight: 4.65gms
Created on: Thursday 25th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Elmsell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-982543
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seed drill spoon. A small cast spoon with a rounded bowl with a flat border and a low concave centre, with a lightly tapered stem of lentoid or rhomboid section. It is suggested this may be a small version of a spoon from the rotating mechanism of a seed drill, where multiple spoons mounted on a drum would take seeds from a hopper. Seed drill spoons are more usually larger, more robust and with bowls of hemispherical form. This may be from an earlier, and possibly man-portable and hand-operated, version of drill. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800 Length: 24.1mm,…
Created on: Thursday 25th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Elmsell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AB733D
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy spoon fragment. A short length of a spoon handle of rectangular section, and with a crisp aris at the meeting of each face with its neighbour. One end is slightly dished and expanded, presumably at the top of a bowl; the other end is nicked and broken. The metal retains its grey tint, pointing to a relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 33.3mm, Width: 7.6mm, Thickness: 4.7mm, Weight: 6.17gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DA538F
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy spoon fragment. Small cast spoon with a broad bowl, a stem widened into angular shoulders above the bowl, and narrowing as a rectangular section stem thereafter. The end of the stem offers no significant support where it meets the bowl, though a pointed form is apparent on the underside of the bowl. The bowl has been flattened, so an item of cutlery may have been modified as an improvised tool. Most of the bowl and much of the handle are lost. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Length: 45.4mm, Width: 26.2mm, Thickness: 2.3mm, Weight: 4.99gms.
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6C14C3
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy spoon fragment. Fragment from the junction of the stepped stem and wide bowl of a spoon. A slightly thickened area extends under the bowl from the stem. Bent. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Length: 52mm, Width: 27.2mm, Thickness: 2.6mm, Weight: 6.66gms
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM117
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead spindle whorl, discoidal, roughly finished, only one side decorated. Diameter 31.0mm, Inside diameter 10.0mm, Thickness 11.0mm, Mass 58.44g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 1998
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WAKEFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM165
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead spindle whorl, flattened biconical, both sides decorated, one side bears radiating chevron ribs set with pellets, the other is covered with pellets only, Diameter 29.2mm, Inside diameter 9.0mm, Thickness 12.2mm, Mass 45.80g
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 1998
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WAKEFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM166
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead spindle whorl, both sides same decoration, seven segments, groups of three dots in each. Diameter 33.3mm, Inside diameter 10.0mm, Thickness 13.4mm, Mass 44.68g
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 1998
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WAKEFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM173
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead spindle whorl, flattened cylindrical with rounded upper and lower faces, hole 10mm diameter, undecorated. Diameter 26.2mm, Thickness 14.7mm, Mass 66.58g.
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 1998
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WAKEFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B57566
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast biconvex whorl wih a central moulded aperture of diameter 10.2mm. Moulded decoration comprises radial lines with angled lines subdividing the surfaces into triangular compartments, appearing on both sides, with a prominent circumferential rim where the two sides meet. Lightly patinated. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600. Diameter: 28.7mm, Thickness: 9.6mm, Weight: 28.89gms
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2016
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B59BEC
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast cylindrical flat sided whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 10mm, Walton Rogers form B; patinated. The mass would probably make this suitable for spinning a yarn. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1100. Diameter: 26.5mm, Thickness (clear of spur): 6.1mm, Weight: 22.64gms
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 17th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DA29D8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast biconvex whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 10mm. Each side bears moulded decoration comprising radial lines dividing them into seven rhomboid compartments, each containing three pellets. A prominent plain circumferential rim projects where the two halves of the whorl meet, and there are also flat plain zones framing the aperture on either side. The decorative scheme of lines and pellets, though common for whorls of this form, is unusually coherent in this case. When newly cast, such relief would confer an attractive sparkle when the whorl was i…
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Darrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1A3364
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead shot. A cast ball with heavily abraded surface; patinated. The mass may suggest this to have been for use with a light fowling piece or 'rook and rabbit' gun. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800 Diameter (long axis): 10.7mm, Weight: 5.10gms
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-865080
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible shot. Cast object, originally spherical but now with multiple angular facets. This pattern of damage may be characteristic of a shot included in a charge of grape shot or canister shot, which would both spread from the muzzle of a field gun like shotgun pellets; the early part of the journey of shot down gun barrel would entail multiple collisions with other shot and the barrel itself. The mass would be apt to a military pistol or carbine. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1630-1830. Diameter: 14.1mm, Weight: 15.95gms.
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Audlin', grid reference and parish protected.