Record ID: LIN-4A22AF
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Treasure reference 2018 T740; a post-medieval silver-gilt dress hook of Reads' 'Early post-medieval Class D, Type 7' (Read 2008, p. 83, no. 280). The dress hook is formed of four conjoined fleur-de-lis radiating from a central hole inlaid with a large bulbous-headed knop that imitates a cabochon gem. The knop passes through the central hole and splays onto the reverse to stop it from coming loose. The arms of the dress hook are in moulded-relief with openwork segments between. A separate, soldered, hook and rectangular loop are located on the reverse. Dimensions: le…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-4A9772
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. An unusually large cast double looped buckle frame of concavo-convex sub-rectangular form with a central strap bar set back from the rest of the frame. The frame itself is expanded and pointed at either end, and with three rounded lobes along its upper and lower edges. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1550-1650. Length: 95.3mm, Height: 72.3mm, Thickness (of casting, not its protrusion]: 1.7mm, Weight: 57.48gms
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4AA165
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and silver possible cuff link. A pair of copper alloy discs, of diameter 22.8mm and thickness 2.6mm [the front]; and 16.1mm and thickness 0.4mm [the back], the two being linked by a round section shank of diameter 3mm. The larger disc has a silver sheet metal front with a rounded plain edge bearing concentric bands of stamped and/or manually incised decoration. The outermost order is a continuous series of triangles. Next is a narrow plain band, and this encloses a field of groups of straight hand-drawn incised lines, each group at right angles to its neighbour. Next are …
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4AAADD
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead alloy badge. Cast circular badge bearing the naturalistically rendered leftward-facing profile of a man wearing a soft hat, perhaps with badge or cockade; a collar ruff; and a fur-fringed garment with puffed, slashed or thick corduroy sleeves. The figure is set within a border of alternating pellets and bisected ovals perhaps pendent from an outer order of triangles, either as shorthand for the leaves of a wreath or perhaps standing for the vegetal garlands which sometimes frame images in earlier Renaissance art. An integrally cast loop is set centrally on the back. The impressio…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4A7E48
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ampulla. Hollow cast pilgrim badge in the form of a bulbous handled flask with side handles flanking a slightly contracted neck. One side bears a moulded motif apparently including a compass drawn crescent within a round field, possibly with a broad letter M or W above it, and framed by closely-spaced diagonal hatching around the adjacent edge. The other side bears a compass drawn flower of seven or more petals within a circular field, with a frame around the adjacent edge in this case comprising juxtaposed triangles, each filled with diagonal hatching, and with the hatchin…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4A8D3C
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ampulla. Hollow cast pilgrim badge in the form of a bulbous flask with side handles [lost, leaving a scar on one side] flanking a slightly contracted neck. One side bears a moulded compass-drawn flower of four petals with a fine reticulate or net-like field between the petals and around them up to the meeting of the two sides of the object. The other side bears an even finer reticulate field. The object has been neatly and obliquely cut across both its bulbous body and its neck, probably as a single operation. Ampullae would retain liquids with supposedly curative propertie…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.