Record ID: NLM-3744B0
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pencil; formerly termed a stylus. Cast lead rod of round section with a moulded tapering point at one end, flat, smoothed and rounded at the other. The object is bent and lightly gouged close to its mid point. Such objects are identified as styli when equipped with a flattened and end to serve as an eraser, but the rounded end here may have fulfilled the same function. It might alternatively serve as a scribe for marking goods, timber or stone. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500. Length (as found): 56mm, Diameter: 6.7mm, Weight: 21.92gms.
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 1st April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Northorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-36DD11
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead shield shaped trade weight with what appears to be three lugs, one at each point of the traingle. The rear is plain and the front has what appears to be a raised reverse "S" shaped emblem over a raised linear line and loop with a point or barb at the widest end. Lead weighs such as this were commonly used to weigh goods under the averdepois system from 1390 in England and were used throughout the 15th century. It is likely that these weights represent a desire to standardize the trade weight system. Biggs & Withers (2000, p.34) discuss the difficulties in dating shield we…
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hull', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-3385E0
Object type: CRUCIFIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead crucifix fragment. Cast top and arms of a cross with very slightly expanded pointed ends to its remaining members; the shaft is lost at an ancient break. The arms in particular have bevelled arises which impart an irregular hexagonal section. Patinated overall. This may be a mortuary cross, a simple token of Christian faith which would occasionally be placed in a medieval or later burial. If so, it is among the tidier examples known. Suggested date: probably Late Medieval, 1350-1500. Height: 21.6mm, Width: 35.5mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 12.51gms.
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-335A3B
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead shot. Cast ball with mould line and the stub of a casting sprue, lightly patinated overall. The size and mass suggest this would be used in a light fowling piece or 'rook and rabbit' gun. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800. Diameter: 10.4mm, Weight: 6.62gms.
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-3321E0
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast plano-convex whorl with larger and smaller flat surfaces and a central moulded aperture of diameter 8mm, Walton Rogers form A2. The upper (wider) surface has an annular dimple around the aperture which, along with irregularities in the sides, probably arises from casting and cooling in an open mould. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-1000. Diameter: 22.7mm, Thickness: 12.2mm, Weight: 29.49gms.
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-330758
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pendant. Cast disc with a punched countersunk aperture of diameter 2mm close to its edge and the opposite edge bevelled, though on the other side. A crudely inscribed design on the side from which the hole was punched comprises a circle with a cross within it, with three shorter strokes extending from the lower arm of the cross, one to the right (as viewed) respecting the circular border, and two to the left passing across it. The other side bears a smaller and even more erratically incised circle with more deeply knife-cut cross and saltire superimposed. The disc is unpatinated …
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.