Record ID: LIN-F41F5C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval lead shield-shaped weight. It has a stepped perimeter deocrated with pellets. The raised body is decorated with three lions passant guardant to the left. The reverse bears perhaps five inscised letters, though some of these are obscured by a deep scar that appears to have damaged the object in recent times. The inscription reads [ ]?R I L (annulet) S' (annulet) V. Other shield shaped weights with an inscription on the reverse are recorded on the PAS database as YORYM-E4E3D6, NLM-083882, FAKL-672982, SWYOR-8F79E7, YORYM-E92766. Similar weights can be seen in Biggs, p.4…
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snarford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-F3DA5C
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete lead spindle whorl of Medieval date (AD 1066-1500). The object is sub-circular, 28mm in diameter, and bi-convex in cross-section with a single central sub-circular aperture with a diameter of 11.55mm. Both faces have an integrally cast decorative pattern of a repeating raised radiating lines and pellets. The surface is smooth but heavily worn, with some evidence of post-depositional damage in the form of irregular, incised lines. The metal is a mid-cream in colour. Spindle whorls of this type appear to start use in around 1380 and continue to be used for most of the 1…
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd December 2014
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Record ID: YORYM-F3C7BC
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead weight of probable Medieval date (AD 1066-1500). The object has a sub-circular, conical form with a single, central, sub-circular apature (Diameter 11.48mm). The base of the object is flat. The surface of the object is heavily corroded and there is no indication of a decorative pattern. The lead is a light cream in colour. Weights of this type appear to start use in around 1380 and continue to be used for most of the 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 11th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-F3B257
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shield shaped weight of Medieval date (AD 1400-1500). The shield weight is a uniface form with a raised central section with incised decoration in the form of a standing lion facing left. The object has a circular perforation in the upper right field. The reverse of the object is smooth and flat. The lead is light cream in colour. Trade weights of this type appear to start use in around 1380 and continue to be used for most of the 15th century. Biggs & Withers (2000, p.34) discuss the difficulties in dating shield weights as links between documentary evidence…
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 11th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: SF-F24D1D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A roughly oval lead Medieval or Post-Medieval pot mend. The larger surface measures 36.77mm in length, 34.06mm in width and the smaller surface measures 36.68mm in length and 25.57mm in width. Fragments from an orange ceramic vessel are still visible between the two surfaces. This pot mend measures 12.14mm in thickness, 67.97g in weight. There are similar examples recorded on the PAS database (SF-B68191).
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Framlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F23FB2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A roughly oval lead Medieval or Post-Medieval pot mend. The larger surface measures 35.56mm in length, 30.68mm in width and the smaller surface measures 28.15mm in length and 20.49mm in width. This pot mend measures 12.15mm in thickness, 65.56g in weight. There are similar examples recorded on the PAS database (SF-B68191).
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Framlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F051BC
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval lead cloth seal dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1700. The cloth seal consists of two discs pressed together, missing the connecting strip. The obverse depicts a large A within an incomplete circular segmented border. The reverse features a stylised pine cones within a circular segmented border. The design on the reverse has been struck slightly off the flan. The seal originates in Augsburg. The lead is a mottled off-white-grey colour. The seal measures 19.58mm in diameter, is 4.09mm thick and weighs 8.03g.
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th August 2014
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Record ID: NMS-EF2C27
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with broken pierced lug at top, pointed oval, 30.5 (>34mm including lug) x 24.5mm. Inverted fleur-de-lis. Engraved setting-out line and initial +, but no inscription. Both faces damaged by multiple sub-triangular punch marks. On the reverse, with a lightly inscribed bordering line, there is a partly unreadable and damaged lower case inscription: + sigill tome fili ... w...t..i miltit...lli (seal of Thomas son of ?Walter knight ??) 13th century AD.
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.