Record ID: LANCUM-69A945
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late post-medieval Dutch copper-alloy duit from Zealand, dating from AD1764. The obverse shows the crowned arms of Zealand and the inscription reads: LUCTOR ET EMERGO (I struggle and I emerge/arise). The reverse inscription reads ZEELANDIA 1764. The mintmark is castle between two stars (very worn, above ZEELANDIA (in three lines)). More information about these coins can be found here (in Dutch): http://www.duiten.nl/zeeland.htm#N_4_
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tollerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-699A05
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount dating from the late post-medieval or early modern period, i.e. c. 1600-1900. The mount is complete and cast with openwork decoration. The reverse is plain, but the obverse shows a cherub's face in the centre with foilage surrounding it. Above his head is what looks like a shell and there are more scrolls spirals below his chin to the left and right. One rivet hole remains, right below the chin of the cherub's face. There may well have been more rivet holes. The mount probably adorned a wooden chest, box or casket.
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tollerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-699405
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy crown and lis coin weight for a noble dating from the late medieval period, i.e. 15th century. Reference: Withers and Wither 1995, 34. English weights were made according to an Act of Parliament of AD1421. Small central punch/hole characteristic to turning the flan to make it the right size. Probably ceased to be made c. AD1471.
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heslington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-698D94
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval silver hammered groat of Mary dating from c. AD1553-1554. Mintmark pomegranate. North 1960.
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heslington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-698775
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval silver hammered halfpenny of Henry VI (first reign), dating from c. AD1445-54. Leaf-pellet issue. North 1512. Pellets by crown; probably leaf on breast. Extra pellet in circle under CIVI on reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heslington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-698121
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval penny of James I dating from c. AD1611-12. Mintmark: mullet. North 2106/2. TVEATVR VNITA DEVS on both sides.
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heslington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6975B5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap end dating from the early medieval or medieval period.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heslington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-697087
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval silver hammered penny, probably of Edward III dating from c. AD1351-77. Pre-treaty, Treaty or Post-Treaty Coinage (obverse legend probably: EDWARDVS REX ANGLI. Minted in York.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fulford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-696742
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap end dating from the late early medieval period, i.e. c. AD800-1000. It is a strap end of Thomas's Class A1. The strap end is complete except for one of the side of the 'split-end' that holds the leather strap in place. It is of pointed oval shape and has a zoomorphic terminal at the closed end, possibly in the shape of a wolf or possibly a hare, as the moulded ears are quite long. The terminal at the attachment end is square. The central panel is filled with a Trewhiddle style animal on a ground of niello. The niello is very worn and weathered and remains as a …
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fulford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-695643
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy Belgian 10 cent piece dating from c. August 1914-1926 (date illegible). It was produced during the German Occupation of Belgium in World War I ("Rape of Belgium"). Obverse: An heraldic lion is surrounded with a vegetable wreath Reverse: The facial value is surrounded with the bilingual inscription "BELGIQUE • BELGIE" (Belgium) Lettering: 10 CENT. • BELGIQUE • BELGIE • [...]
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Singleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-692F24
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy mirror case base dating from the medieval period, i.e. c. AD1270-1350. Only one half of the mirror case remains. It a slightly convex cast disc with punched decoration on the outside. There was a single lug on one side and a pair on the other. Inside the recessed inside surface remains a mixture of cement and lead which held the glass in place. The glass itself is missing. the outside of the case is decorated with a simple punched decoration, the pattern resembling a cross with curved arms. Very similar mirror cases can be found in Egan, G. 1991, fig. 241, 1714-16. …
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brereton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-691976
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval silver hammered sixpence of Elizabeth I dating from AD1561. Mintmark pheon. North 1997.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-690BF0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval silver hammered threepence of Elizabeth I dating from AD1578. Mintmark plain cross. North 1998.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Croston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-682EE1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete provencial token - City of Bristol farthing token of 1662. Obverse in field a large CB with 1662 below, inscription: A BRISTOLL FARTHING. Reverse: Ship issuing from a castle inscription: THE ARMES OF BRISTOLL. The token weighs 2.5g and is 16.3mm in diameter. Reference: Williamson Volume 1: page 241 Gloucestershire: 18/19
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 13th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton Abbotts', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-682940
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper-alloy oval buckle frame. . The offset narrowed bar is circular in cross-section. The rest of the frame is thicker and more of a quarter-circle in cross-section. It flares gently to the grooved pin rest. The frame is not quite symmetrical, perhaps bent out of shape a little but more probably poorly made. Width c. 25mm. Probably 12th to 14th century in date.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-6819E3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end of composite type, made from two sheets fixed to a cast spacer plate. The sheets taper from a wider attachment end well beyond the end of the spacer. The two sheets each have a single central rivet hole and are both bent in the same direction. At the other end the sheets sharply taper with an incurved edge and are fixed to the spacer with a copper-alloy rivet. The spacer emerges from the end of the sheets with a long projecting terminal, decorated with two bold transverse mouldings and ending in a rounded end. It is difficult to take measurements from the pho…
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-6809F1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy annular buckle. The frame is circular in plan and in cross-section. A simple copper-alloy pin wraps around the frame with a large oval loop. Diameter 25mm, weight 6.16g.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-679191
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick cortical flake of black flint with a brown layer under the cortex, which has a greenish hue. This is the Bullhead flint decribed by Butler(2005), colour illustration 3. It is stained thus by being overlain by greensand and is found in the South of England. The distal margin has a notch and a run of semi-abrupt retouch on the right margin, leaving a denticule in between. there is another notch on the left margin, which is thinned by truncated dorsal flake scars. Butler illustrates combination tools on page 169, fig. 71, 6-7.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-675210
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A light grey, iron stained flint pebble with a broken end with several thick cortical flakes removed in a chopper or keeled core style. This has not been proceeded with but on the base is a dense concentration of peck marks where the pebble has been used as a hammer stone; likely in the initial reduction of other pebbles to remove cortical flakes before a core is ready to produce tool blanks.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-672443
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stout flake removing the entire face of a flake core made from grey opaque chert. Abrupt retouch around the distal end is irregular and expedient to just trim the scraper edge less ragged. The retouch becomes more invasive down the left margin as though a cutting action might be wanted here. Butler(2005) illustrates a similar tool on page 166, fig.70, 8.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.