Record ID: PUBLIC-83F0C2
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An amorphous piece of copper-alloy probable casting waste of unknown age. Description: The piece has no distinct shape or form and incorporates pieces of stony material. Associated finds range in date from Bronze-Age to modern with a bias towards Roman-period objects and coins. Measurements: Length 25.79mm: Width 30.05mm: Thickness 15.04mm: Weight 32.03g
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th May 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-827E94
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, post-medieval copper alloy buckle, dated 1600 - 1720. The buckle is double looped with a sub-retangular frame that has rounded edges. the pin is missing. The buckle frame is concave in cross section and narrows to the central cross bar where it is flanked by trefoil mouldings with upturned leaves on either side of the trefoils, The outer edge of each frame is expanded to a rossette which is topped with a knop. The buckle has a dark green patina. Dimensions: Length 68mm Width 43.5mm Weight 20.20g
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8259E2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper alloy livery button of the Water Lane Brewery. The button is made of two pieces the front and the back plate to which the shank is attached. The front is concave. The design on the front surface consists of the letters 'W' ' L' ' B', the letter L being larger than the other twp letters.The word 'WATER' is at the top above the letters and the word ' LANE' is at the the bottom below the letters. The words follow the curve of the rim. On the reverse the attatchment shank is placed directly in the centre of the button and is circular in shape. The makers name is not …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Caister', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PUBLIC-8257C7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged copper-alloy rectangular (long) buckle plate in 3 pieces dating to the medieval period 1200-1400 CE. The front plate is almost complete, and its outer surface is embossed with a pattern of zig-zag lines. The internal side has one end half lightly coloured green where textile was found next to it. Weight 5.2g, length 51.5mm, width 24mm, thickness 1.5mm. The rear plate is mostly complete but damaged in the middle, and its outer surface has 2 small rivets, one at each of the 2 corners of one end. On the inner surface of the same end of this plate there is the remians of w…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 18th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-825637
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy single loop buckle with integral, forked spacers dating to the 14th century. The buckle frame is a narrow oval with a pointed lip on the outside edge for the pin to rest on. The pin is looped around a narrow bar between the bulbous start of two stepped prongs of an integrally cast forked spacer designed to connect the now missing buckle plate. The pin is formed from a long thin tapering piece of copper-alloy, cylindrical in cross-section. The loop has a bevelled surface on the front of the buckle and the loop is a very shallow hemisphere in cross-section. …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 18th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-824B27
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper-alloy heraldic shield-shaped stud mount of date (AD1200-1400). The face is slightly bevelled and shows a lion rampant. The reverse of the object is flat, undecorated and has an integral, projecting shank, 4.3 mm long. The shank is sub-circular. Length: 19.3mm, width: 15.4mm, thickness of shield: 1.5mm, weight: 2.3g
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8211C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver half groat of Elizabeth I Dated to 1587-1589. Obverse: crowned bust facing left, two pellets behind E D G ROSA SINE SPINA Reverse: shield with the royal coat of arms divided by a long cross CIVITAS LONDON Initial Mark: Crescent.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-820ED8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead Spindle Whorl of Medieval date (AD 1066-1550). The object is circular and in profile is plano-convex, there is a single, central circular perforation running through running through the object (11mm in diameter). The exterior is decorated with seven pairs of pellets. It measures 25mm in diameter and 10mm thick. Helen Geake writes: "Dating of lead whorls is difficult. The drop spindle with which they were used continued in use until the end of the medieval period in London and Winchester (Egan 1998, "The Medieval Household: Daily Living c1150 - c1450"; and Biddle, 1…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-81FB64
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy spur buckle. This dates from the late 17th or early 18th century (c.1660-1720). The buckle is of an asymmetrical type with a rounded loop at one end and a squared loop with diagonal cut corners. It is slightly curved up at both ends. It is drilled with a tiny circular hole in both sides of the centre to hold a separate spindle. The bar is of an iron-rich material. The iron pin is heavily corroded. A separate copper alloy plate sits beneath the frame and extends from the bar to beyond the rounded loop. The plate tapers to two knops and then is curled back o…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PUBLIC-81F3BB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy farthing of Charles II (AD1660-1685). Obverse shows a laureate and cuirassed bust left. Obverse legend reads CAROLVS.A./CAROLO.​ Weight 5.63, Diameter 22MM. Reverse description and legend illegible.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-81D1ED
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete, Post-Medieval copper alloy buckle dated AD 1770-1790.The buckle frame is rectangular in plan. The separate drilled spindle is present. The chapes are both broken; one is mostly present with only the last part, which would attatch to the frame, missing. The second chape remains as a small stub attached to the spindle.The tongue is also broken and only remains as a forked projection from the middle of the spindle. The front face is convex and decorated with a continuous, moulded pattern around the frame of scrolls and florets. There are six florets: one in each corner o…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-81BA4A
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy harness mount (c. 1170 - 1300). The mount is circular with three rivet holes protruding from its edges at 90 degrees to each other at the top and the sides and a hinge projecting from the bottom edge. The pendant is decorated with a three-towered castle and covered in gilt. The three towered castle is part of the arms of Castile and is depicted on an example illustrated in Ashley (2002: p. 25 and 41, Fig. 24 , no. 245) and on other harness pendants and fittings on the PAS database, e.g. NMS-E10804, BH-8A06BD, CORN-F5A046, IHS-0CF962, IHS-0D2BA1. The background …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-819E01
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy William and Mary farthing dated 1694 in exergue. Obverse has conjoined busts facing right, with reverse showing Britannia facing left with date of 1694 in exergue. Obverse inscription GVLIELMVS / ET MARIA and reverse BRITAN/NIA. Diameter 23mm, weight 5.53g and die axis 6 o'clock.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8184F2
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete, modern, copper alloy, discoidal plate badge, from the early 1930's. Around the circumference on the front are the raised words, 'BOBBY BEAR CLUB. DAILY HERALD', which are surrounded by red enamelling. In the centre circle is the 'golden' profile (left facing) of the head and shoulders of a 'teddy bear'. On the reverse is a small, soldered tube, which would have held the pin, opposite a soldered on hook. The pin is missing. In small, raised letters on the back is the makers mark, 'RODEN LONDON'. Dimensions: Diameter: 25 mm, Thickness: 1 mm. Weight: 7.17 gm.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8169E3
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy dress hook, probably 16th century 1500-1550 CE. Read's Class E, Type 3. The front of the dress hook has moulded relief open work decoration, whilst the back is flat. The body is broadly circular with a rectangular attachment loop. The body is decorated with an equal armed cross, and the edge of the body is beaded and engrailed. Each of the 4 quarters of the body has 4 small holes. The hook is present and is bent forward, returning by 8.9mm. Weight 2.55g, length 34.1mm, width 16.1mm, thickness 1.6mm. Similar to YORYM-1D23FF
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-815967
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of a post medieval pewter spoon terminal. The larger fragment is sub triangular in form and has an image of a figure holding a sceptre in its right hand. possibly an apostle. The smaller fragment is subrectangular and continues the human image to show the feet.The reverse of both fragments is plain. Length of larger fragment :35.6mm, width: 21.3mm, thickness: 2.7mm weight: 6.9g Length of smaller fragment: 16.1mm, width: 9.5mm, thickness: 3.2mm weight: 1.9g
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8142EA
Object type: CHAFING DISH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy vessel handle of medieval to post-medieval date - circa 1400 - 1600. The object is a drop or loop-handle from a chafing dish which would have been suspended and heated over a fire. The handle is sub-triangular in plan and square in section with two rounded corners and a flattened apex. An attachment lug is present around the apex with a waisted collar. The copper-alloy attachment lug is crescent shaped, shouldered and square in section, while the ends of the crescent are tapered. It has a narrowed neck that terminates in a squared section and a circular ri…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-813AF1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval, pressed copper alloy, domed, sexfoil mount with a central fixing hole. Green patina. Dimensions: Diameter: 15 mm, Height: 4.mm, Thickness: 0.6mm. Weight: 0.72 gm
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8131AA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Saxon copper alloy Ansate brooch. The terminals are flat, ovoid and decorated with four l grooves which form an oval. The inner oval is divided in to quadrants by four grooves; a further four grooves outline the quadrant into a diamond shape. The bow was probably D-sectioned but has been squashed. The double pin lug retains part of an iron spindle. An integral hooked catchplate is located on the reverse. Overall length 29mm, diameter of terminal 10mm,weight 76.4g. Height of pin lug.7mm,width of bow 4mm. 8th - 9th century.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Caister', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PUBLIC-81267E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy farthing of William and Mary, AD1688-1694. Obverse shows conjoined busts facing right. Obverse legend GVLIELMVS / [ET MARIA]. Reverse shows Britannia seated left, coin date 1694 in exergue. Reverse legend illegible. . Coin diameter 22.3m, weight 5.1g, and die axis is 6 o'clock.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.