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Record ID: NMS-B42DE5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead 4 oz weight. Thick, discoidal with slight hollowing on both faces. Diam. 30mm. 16mm thick. Weighs 1701.2 grains, 3.8885 oz, 110.23 g. Cf. Biggs (1992), 42-3. A mercantile pound of 16oz Troy was in use during the 14th and 15th centuries (Biddle 1990, 911 Table 91 f.n.2). 14th-15th century.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-B678AB
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy spindle whorl, probably dating from the late medieval to early post medieval period (c AD 1300-1600). It is bi-conical, with a circular perforation. The perforation has an internal diameter of 8mm. The object is very worn and has a greyish/white patina. The diameter is 25mm and the weight 33.72g. Similar examples of spindle whorls have been found in contexts from the Roman through to the Post-Medieval period. However most are typically dated to the Medieval period. The diameter is 22mm and the weight 25.77g.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-B68174
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy trade weight of medieval to post-medieval date, c.AD 1380 - 1600. The weight is shield shaped with rounded edges and corners. A raised leur-de-lis design is present on the upper surface. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The metal has a mid-white/brown patina and is worn. The length is 39mm, the width is 34mm and the weight 58.57g. Lead weights have been used in trade since the Roman period and were used for weighing quantities of coin as well as goods. Shield-shaped weights are a distinctive group of trade weights which are used from c.AD 1380 and con…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: NLM-B2A981
Object type: WEDGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron wedge. A wrought iron blade approaching hourglass form, with a broad curved cutting edge, a constriction a little above its midpoint where the profile is slightly thickened, and a flat narrower butt. One side of the blade is thicker towards the cutting edge, with a sharp stepped edge to the thickened part. The straight edge opposite the cutting edge is burred by recurrent impact from the use of the object. This appears to be a tool for cutting wood, possibly in thin slices as with the manufacture of roof shingles, whose manufacture would involve a blade and mallet. The finder kin…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-B39793
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval ceramic stoneware Siegburg drinking bowl dating from AD1350-1500. The sherd consists of part of the rim and bowl of the vessel. The vessel is unglazed and has a light grey fabric with some discoloration from its deposition environment. The complete vessel would have been a shallow drinking bowl with a thumbed pedestal foot, see Gaimster (1997:168 Fig 2) for a complete example. Dimensions: height: 53.53mm; diameter: 126.39mm; thickness: 4.11mm; weight: 133.44g Similar Siegburg drinking bowls on the database are LON-B8D305 and LON-4759B1. Gaims…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B5F56F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy large triangular lug from cauldron, oval-sectioned (14.5 x 12mm), broken around scrap of integral vessel wall at one end and at change of angle at other end. Extant length 52mm. Weighs 62.23g. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: KENT-B707B4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy vessel fragment, likely dating between c.AD 1500- 1800. Description: The fragment is part of the rim of a cauldron or similar vessel with the rim formed by a thickened section at the top of a thin wall. The entire fragment is heavily patinated dark green and the breaks roug. Measurements: 49.25mm high, 36.44mm wide, 4.85mm thick and 36.12g in weight
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
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Record ID: NLM-B2D232
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A straight-sided sheet metal strip with one irregularly pointed end, and with the edge of a punched hole of diameter 2.5mm at the other end on one side; folded. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1900. Length (as found): 17.5mm, Width: 9.7mm, Thickness: 0.6mm, Weight: 1.59gms
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B643CB
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a cast, lead alloy toy handle possibly from a petronel gun, of post medieval date (AD 1700-1900). The handle is a dark grey in colour with some patches of corrosion. The object is curved and broken at potentially both ends. The handle does have some engraved decoration but is difficult to distinguish through wear and corrosion. Similar objects on the Portable Antiquities Scheme include: DUR-3BE03A. The length is 43mm, the width is 13mm and the weight 5.68g.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B4B6BE
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy late 19thC trade token (c1870-80), issued by G. Housham of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. The token reads on one side across the centre of the token, GO TO, with a short raised line above and below those two words, with G HOUSHAM'S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING GAINSBOROUGH in raised lettering around the circumference, with a fine line encircling them at the outer edge of he token. The reverse of the token reads FOR HATS across the centre, also between two short raised lines, and G. HOUSHAM GAINSBOROUGH around the circumference. On this side the outer words are encircled by laurel …
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
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Record ID: SUR-B4D2A6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A uniface lead alloy token with a long cross and a single pellet to each quarter. One quarter appears to have an additional feature within it, possibly a letter p or L. The reverse is flat and has features which may correspond to crude letters N and possibly p.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: SUR-B4E41C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A uniface lead alloy token stamped with a crude five pointed star within a circle.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: KENT-B5C647
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 5 lead tokens dating to the period 1500-1900, one is dated to the 1860s, another to 1762. Description: The tokens are all circular and all but one are decorated and of uniface type (decoration on one side Token 1: Undecorated, slightly abraded. 28.06mm in diameter, 3.55mm thick and 17.46g in weight. Token 2: Uniface, Design in relief 'WC/1782'.Powell type 2 (initials) hybrid with type 8 (numerals). 29.7mm in diameter, 3.21mm thick and 16g in weight. Token 3: Uniface, Design in relief 'TR/186[_]'.Powell type 2 (initials) hybrid with type 8 (numerals). Slight tab …
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
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Record ID: SUR-B4EE23
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A uniface lead alloy token or tally, 21.6mm in diameter. One side is stamped with a triple-stranded cross with chevrons in each quarter, possibly intended to represent a millstone (Powell Type 12). Circa 17th-18th century.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
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Record ID: NLM-B2939D
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. Cast domed or beehive-shaped thimble with a plain basal zone above which circular hand-stamped pits of maximum diameter 1.4mm are arranged in eight horizontal rows around the body. This arrangement continues with a further two concentric rings of similar character on the top, though these pits are diminished by heavier wear; there is an apparently blank apical area. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500. Diameter: 19.3mm, Height: 21.7mm, Thickness (wall): 0.6mm, Weight: 5.20gms
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Normanby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B37041
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble fragment. Cast domed or beehive-shaped thimble with an indeterminate extent of its lower wall lost. What remains bears closely-spaced hand-stamped pits of diameter 0.9mm in closely juxtaposed vertical rows. The top was occupied by similar pits arranged in at least five concentric circles. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500. Diameter: 16.8mm, Height: 11.4mm, Thickness (wall): 0.9mm, Weight: 2.90gms
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B63EC3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy open-topped thimble or sewing ring dating from the late Medievl to early Post-medieval period 1400 to 1600AD. The thimble is circular in plan and rectangular in profile. The surface is corroded and the edge is possibly broken. The outer face has been hand punched with four rows of regularly-spaced circular pits or indentations. The length is 21mm, the width is 18mm and the weight 5.37g. Egan (2005) on page 132, fig.126, no.648 illustrates a similar sewing ring from Fastolf Place, Southwark which is dated from the late 15th to the early 16th century. Egan, G.,…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
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Record ID: NLM-B2C8C1
Object type: SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible surgical implement. A cast blade of elongated sub-triangular form, resembling one side of a pair of tweezers, thinned at its broader end and thickened as it narrows, terminating at a small sharp curved rhomboid point. The pointed end might have served as a scoop or pick, though it is now dangerously sharp for this to be attempted. The broader 'tweezer' blade may have had a counterpart, though again, how attached is now unclear. Traces of white metal plating appear on one side of the object. Now bent or curled and approaching an S shape in profile. Suggested date:…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-B34DDE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post Medieval copper-alloy sword belt fitting with foliate decoration, a pendant loop and one rivet hole. Circa 16th-17th century.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
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Record ID: SUR-B3D7DC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Medieval copper alloy strap distributor comprising a round terminal with bevelled sides and a central convex roundel with several broken surfaces indicating two or more lost projections. The object is undecorated, has a flat reverse and a trapezoidal to plano-convex cross sectional profile.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2019
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