Record ID: NLM-4F72CC
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy book clasp. A pair of plates of thickness 1.1mm, the outermost with straight sides and with a short U-shaped lug at one end, expanded and bifurcated towards a fishtail terminal at the other, where it is raggedly torn by rough removal from its setting. Howsam Class A.3. A plain subsidiary plate, perhaps a reinforcement or from the inner side of a book cover, is aligned with the main part of the object at its narrower end. Four stamped double ring and dot of diameter 7.1mm appear on the display side, two on the narrower part and one apiece on the branching or bifurcated fish…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4F51EA
Object type: NUT CRACKERS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nutcrackers fragment. Part of one arm of a pair of nutcrackers – or shellfish crackers – with a rhomboid section stem expanded at its outer end to form a rectangular flat textured surface with faceted back, broken across its outer end, probably at the site of its articulation with a counterpart. The stem or handle is bent and broken. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800 Length: 61.1mm, Width: 12.7mm, Thickness (at outer end): 5.8mm, Weight: 20.78gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4F30C5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and lead possible button fragment. Cast lightly biconvex disc with a central round hole marking the loss of a separate loop from the middle of the back. The sheathing of a lead core is an unusual feature of what would be a rather massy form of fastener if the identification were upheld. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1800 Diameter: 24.4mm, Thickness: 6.5mm, Weight: 12.63gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4F03A3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and leather strap end. Cast rounded split inner end of a strap end which tapered towards a narrowed and longitudinally slotted terminal with an oval inner end to its slot. The preserved fabric of a ?leather strap remains trapped in the split end. Up to three large [diameter 3mm] rivets may have attached the object to the strap. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 31.2mm, Width: 19.9mm, Thickness (overall): 4.6mm, Weight: 7.65gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4EE71A
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penknife fragment. Cast medial plate and one end, from a folding pocketknife. The plano-convex section terminal is vertically grooved and the outer side of the plate rebated to receive a separate bone or ivory side plate for the handle [now lost]. A rivet lies at the outer end. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 36.6mm, Height: 13.0mm, Thickness (at terminal): 2.5mm, Weight: 3.69gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4EC586
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy spoon fragment. Cast handle from a teaspoon or similar, with moulded ovulos aligned down the centre line of its display side in a linear series which is continued by two or more stamped dots; bowl lost and terminal chipped. The metal is particularly pliable, so this was perhaps homemade. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1675-1775 Length: 61.7mm, Width: 10.7mm, Thickness (at lower stem): 2.3mm, Weight: 4.34gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Enbsay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4EA2ED
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. Cast acorn knop of elongated form, springing from the rounded end of the spacer plate from a strap end of composite construction. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Length: 21.5mm, Width: 13.9mm, Thickness: 4.3mm, Weight: 1.46gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4E8498
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy button copy. Cast plano-convex uniform button front bearing a Crown Imperial above a bugle with the number 20 between these features, and with a now-crescentic basal legend which probably extended round the button retaining the letters [--]TEERS [--]. This would seem to be the relict of the word Volunteers. There is no trace of a loop or its loss on a featureless smooth back. This is probably a casting taken from a 19th-century military uniform button. What is described above may suggest this to be from the periods of recruitment of volunteer or yeomanry regiments to defend …
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4E5D1D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy finger ring fragment. Cast ring fragment comprising a rectangular flat bezel and straight-sided shoulders, rounded within the band. Worn diagonal strokes, mostly lost to wear, frame the initials P R with additional lines and flourishes on the bezel – though not serving as a signet because the letters are inscribed the right way round. Each shoulder has a linear incised border bearing a rhomboid flower with hatched centre and with rays emanating from the outer corner of the upper compartments lying outside the rhomboid on either shoulder and more – perhaps repre…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D6C056
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead unidentified object fragment. A cast square-section bar, raggedly broken at either end, abraded, patinated and slightly bent. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1900 Length: 33.6mm, Width: 8.8mm, Thickness: 7.4mm, Weight: 16.47gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D69BAE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap fitting. A pair of conjoined cast loops of round section: the larger circular and the smaller an oval-ended rounded form appended. Probably from horse furniture. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 43.7mm, Height: 34.1mm, Thickness (larger loop): 4.5mm, Weight: 15.40gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D67F6B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. A small cast rectangular frame, plain, with opposed housings for a separate steel spindle [lost]. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1720-1790 Length: 18.9mm, Height: 17.9mm, Thickness (at housing): 3.2mm, Weight: 1.68gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D6606B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Milled sixpence of William III (1694-1702), probably dated 1696 Obverse description: bust laureate cuirassed right. Obverse inscription: GVLIELMVS  III DEI.GRA. Reverse description: cruciform shields Reverse inscription: 16 [9]6 MAG/BR.FR.[-]/ET.HIB./REX Diameter: 20.6mm, Weight: 2.74gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D646F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Nummus indeterminate, later Roman issue of 330-410 on a small chipped and worn oval flan. Obverse description: bust possibly left. All other detail lost. Diameter: 15.4mm, Weight: 0.78gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D624A3
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast square uniface weight with an indeterminate motif within a circular panel struck on one side only. The uniface square weight is usually of Low Countries or German origin and of 16th or 17th-century date. Some checked the weight of the Angel gold coin or its subdivisions (Withers and Withers 2011, page 27). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Length: 13.8mm, Width: 13.7mm, Thickness: 1.9mm, Weight: 2.54gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D60336
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Threepence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), fifth issue, dated 1578, London mint, in very good condition. Obverse description: bust left, rose behind head; mintmark Greek cross (7). Obverse inscription: ELIZABETH.D’.G’.ANG’.FR’.ET:HI’.REGINA Reverse description: long cross, shield of Arms of England and France, date over shield: 15 78 Reverse inscription: POSVI/DEV’AD/IVTORE/M.MEV’. Diameter: 19.6mm, Weight: 1.43gms, die axis: 3
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D5E6FE
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and/or tin alloy button. Solid cast globular or biconvex button with a scar on the back from the loss of a separate [probably] copper alloy loop. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Diameter: 10.8mm, Thickness: 7.6mm, Weight: 3.83gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D5A392
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap fitting. Cast round-section D-shaped loop. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 23.6mm, Height: 29.3mm, Thickness: 3.7mm, Weight: 6.43gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D587AC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Probably an As or dupondius indeterminate, early Roman issue of 43-200 retaining no discernible detail on either side. Diameter: 25.2mm, Weight: 8.68gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D5540A
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible bridle fitting fragment. A part of a cast and probably oval loop, separated by a bulbous moulding from a constricted round-section bar across which it is broken. Fiercely abraded. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1100 Length: 30.9mm, Width: 23.8mm, Thickness: 8.2mm, Weight: 12.60gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.