Record ID: LANCUM-37510C
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cache of twenty lead alloy musket balls and one lead alloy fragment of post-Medieval date, about AD 1600 - 1800. The diameter ranges between 15mm to 13mm and the combined weight is 206.29g suggesting that they were intended for use in a pistol (Harding D F, 2012, Lead Shot of the English Civil War). The remains of the casting seams and two casting sprues are visible. The fragment is probably a scrap fragment intended to cast into a pistol ball.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-373D50
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead object, possibly a gaming piece of later Early-Medieval date. It is solid and pyramid shaped with a flat base with four regular sides. The lead surface is heavily oxidised resulting in a cream/white patina.The length is 20mm, the width is 18mm and the weight 28.37g. Similar conical lead objects, but which are hollow, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire (for example SF-C01997, SF-50B784, SF-6F5256 and SF-6F7361). They are interpreted as possible Viking gaming pieces or small weights and indicate a probable date range in the 9th-11th centuries AD for the current example. Object…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-3737E8
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy weight probably a spindle whorl Medieval dating 1100 - 1500AD.. The object is damaged and partially circular in plan and slightly conical. In the centre of the object the perforation has an internal diameter of 9mm. Each face appears to have been decorated with vertical and horizontal, cross-hatching lines, although the decoration is damaged, faded and unclear. The object has a light grey patina. The length is 20mm, the width is 20mm and the weight 16.42g.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-372B66
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead alloy toy petronel (gun) probably a pistol, of Post Medieval dating (AD 1600 to AD 1800). The length is 17mm, the width is 15mm and the weight 11.91g. Guns of this type were based on the match-lock 'petronels' of the 16th and 17th centuries, and were fully working models. This gun is possibly an Egan and Forsyth's Type 2 dated 1600-1640 (Egan and Forsyth, 2005, Toys, Trifles and Trinkets, Museum of London, page 92). Forsyth, H. and Egan, G., 2005. Toys, Trifles & Trinkets: Base-Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800 London : Unicorn Press, pp92.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2023
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Record ID: BERK-36A3D6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An illegible lead alloy token or tally of post-medieval date, c. AD 1500-1800. The token is worn almost smooth on both faces.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2018
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Record ID: BERK-369A5B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval lead alloy (pewter) token of probable late medieval date (c. AD 1400-1600). The obverse of the token is decorated with a raised design consisting of a voided cross. The reverse of the token is plain and flat.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
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Record ID: BERK-368D27
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval lead token of post-medieval date. The obverse of the token is decorated with a raised design which is now illegible. The reverse of the token features a quadraped with curved tail and head turned to look over towards its rear, and below is the date 1700. The obverse probably featured the issuer's initials however these are now illegible. Several similar tokens featuring dates and animals have been reocrded on this database, for example BERK-D3AA39, BERK-C65F78 and BERK-C8CFAA.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2018
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