Record ID: PUBLIC-9145BF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval silver sixpence of William III (AD 1694-1702). Description: The coin is a first bust variety. The reverse depicts crowned cruciform shields with large crowns and an early harp. The coin is bent in two places to form an S-shape. It is dated 1696. Measurements: Diameter 21.33mm: Weight 2.72g. Discussion: This coin is probably a 'love-token'. Mint of London. Spink no. 3520. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, it was common practice for men to give such a coin to their sweetheart as a token of love. If she kept the token it meant that his affection was…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4E5005
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman nummus (AE3) of the house of Valentinian I (AD 364-375) Description: The coin is heavily worn and abraded with GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type depicting Emperor advancing right, holding standard and dragging captive. Obverse is a diademed bust facing right. Measurements: Diameter 15.96mm: Thickness 1.67mm: Weight 1.16g. Discussion: Minted between 364-378, Reece Period 19. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Thursday 27th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-AFAEF8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small handle and fragments of the body of a Roman greyware vessel. Description: The handle is sub-square in cross-section and formed into a semi-circular curve, each end attached to the body of the vessel. There are small fragments of the vessel body remaining. The handle is formed around a 10mm circular hole which has smooth sides and has been applied by pushing a former through the wet clay during manufacture. The fabric is hard and smooth and banded with grey reduced outer surfaces and a darker grey reduced inner core. It is sandy with profuse, small, rounded white limestone a…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th September 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-16FF37
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy ball of probable mid 17th century date. Description: The lead shot is roughly spherical but has multiple ridges and uneven indentations covering most of its surface. Measurements: Diameter at widest point 13.1mm: Weight 7.48g. Discussion: The damage appears to be teeth marks and Harding, 2012 suggests that they are caused by marks left after chewing the ball, possibly by animals post-deposition (Harding 2012).
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-029E8B
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy fragment of a probable post-medieval child's toy or shy. Description: The fragment is flat with a design, in relief, integrally-cast into one face. The design depicts a thatched roof of a building with radiating lines and timber frame The reverse face is flat and undecorated. Measurements: Width 22mm: Height 15mm: Thickness 1.72mm: Weight 2.36g Discussion: This may be a fragment from a child's toy or shy. The suggested date for these type of objects is late 17th to early 18th century. Two similar fragments from the same area of the same field are recorded as…
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-01A5FB
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated strip of sheet copper-alloy of unknown date or function. Description: The object is a thin plate, roughly oval in outline, widening in the centre and narrowing at each end. The object is broken across both ends. One face is decorated with three lines of rocker-arm zigzags, one along the centre line and two around the perimeter. The back is undecorated. Measurements: Length 30.6mm: Width 8.85mm: Thickness 0.81mm: Weight 0.77g. Discussion: The strip is obviously part of a larger object and probably dates from the later medieval to early post-medieval period from the…
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F0D5E4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast copper-alloy, medieval single loop buckle with integral plate c. AD 1250-1400. Description: Only the plate remains and is broken across the lower part of the buckle frame. The plate is trapezoidal in shape with two rivet holes, one at the rounded terminal and one towards the centre of the plate. Both copper-alloy rivets remain in-situ. A further hole, just before the remains of the frame, would have held the pin. The pin is missing. Measurements: Length 25.88mm: Width 9.94mm: Thickness 1.54mm: Weight 1.08g. Discussion: Whitehead (1996, 34 fig 196 and 198) …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EF3D81
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy spindle whorl dating to the medieval period. Description: The whorl is unevenly cast and cylindrical with flat sides and a central moulded aperture of diameter 10.65mm. One face is slightly domed and the opposite face is concave with a moulded pattern of five, straight, raised lines, overlapping at their ends to create a pentagon. The lead-alloy has started to decay and delaminate and there are areas of lost material. Measurements: Diameter 30.65mm: Thickness 8.09mm: Weight: 30.42g.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D873E4
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy purse frame fragment, dating from c. 1450 - 1550, probably Williams Class C. Description: The fragment is part of the frame of a purse where it would have attached to the purse bar. It is formed from a long thin rod of copper-alloy with one end bent at 90 degrees to the main rod and flattened and widened before piercing to create the suspension loop. The loop is now broken. Along the majority of its length the frame is a slightly flattened oval in cross-section, gradually becoming thinner and more flattened, with a deep channel on the upper surface creating a U-…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D78E4D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a medieval silver halfpenny of Edward III. Withers Type 5, London mint. Description: The coin is very worn and has some post-depositional damage with approximately 1/3 of the flan missing. The coin is very darkly coloured and detail is difficult to see, on the obverse in particular, but the bust has distinctive hollow eyes and mouth, typical of these coins. Measurements: Diameter 16.01mm Weight 0.37g.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CC75CD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of Edward II. The coin is a mule of class 11b1/11a2, Durham mint. Description: The coin is very worn and has some striking weakness in some areas. There are both rounded-backed and pointed-backed C's and E's, a crosier at the end of one arm of the reverse cross (at 12 o'clock) and a CIVI/TAS/DVN/ELM reverse legend. Measurements: Diameter 18.16mm Weight 1.06g. Discussion: The different styles of C and E indicate that this is a mule of a class 11b1 obverse with an 11a2 reverse.
Created on: Sunday 21st October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-857A0E
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast lead-alloy object, probably a post-medieval spoon handle. Description: The object is a thin rod, broken at both ends and facetted with six faces to give a flattened hexagon in cross-section. The upper facet is decorated with a moulded zigzag pattern along its length with a pellet in each angle. Measurements: Length 38.67mm: Width 6.0mm: Depth 4.0mm: Weight 4.44g.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-64BC92
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone of probable early-medieval date (c. AD 800 - 1100). Description: The whetstone is formed from a very fine-grained, sedimentary, mica-rich stone. It is sub-trapezoidal in plan with tapering sides and is trapezoidal in cross section although there is significant post-depositional damage that has changed its profile. Both ends are broken, probably in antiquity. Two sides are flat and smooth. The other sides are damaged. Measurements: Length 86.72mm: Width 25.09mm: Thickness 16.29mm: Weight 63.33g Discussion: Dating of whetstones is difficult as they were …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-647D74
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy thimble of early post-medieval date. Description: The thimble has a tapered body, pointed crown and manually-punched, rectangular pits. The pits on both the body and the crown of the thimble are in a right-hand spiral pattern. The pits on the body begin about one quarter of the way up from the base. Between the pits and the base there is a circumferential groove above a decorated band. The decoration on the band is a pattern of repeated, facing half-annulets. Measurements: Height 18.16mm: Diameter 15.94mm: Weight 2.24g. Discussion: This style of thimble is dat…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 29th May 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-09E8BE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval, sheet copper-alloy probable buckle plate. Description: The plate consists of two rectangular sheets of copper-alloy held together by two, in-situ, copper-alloy, circular rivets. There is a 1mm gap between the sheets. Both sides of the plate are incised with two, parallel longitudinal lines. One end of the plate is intact but the other end, where it was attached to the buckle, is broken across the rivet hole. There is some gilding visible on both sides. Measurements: Length 22.99mm: Width 7.85mm: Thickness 1.81mm: Weight 1.25g. Discussion: There has been some discu…
Created on: Friday 12th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-092518
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A biconical, cast lead spindle whorl dating to the medieval period. Description: The whorl has been badly cast and the decoration is faint but both sides are decorated with a circumferential zigzag line creating triangular cells. Alternate cells are decorated with a single moulded pellet in the upper cells and three moulded pellets in the lower ones. There is a central hole 10.2mm in diameter. The edge of the whorl has a flattened area at one point with an elongated hole. This is a casting flaw rather than damage. Measurements: Diameter 30.49mm: Thickness 13.20mm: Weight: 51.08g.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-084ECD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval, silver, long cross cut halfpenny of Henry III class V. Mint is London but moneyer is unknown. Description: The coin has been clipped and is poorly struck on the obverse. Measurements: Diameter 16.15mm: Weight 0.54g.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A26F28
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval, silver, long cross cut farthing of Henry III class III. Mint and moneyer unknown but the reverse legend of NE suggests York [O]/NE/[VER] or Oxford [OXO]/NE. Measurements: Maximum radius 10.25mm: Weight 0.32g.
Created on: Sunday 7th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-752843
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, medieval, cast copper-alloy, single loop buckle. Description: The buckle has a kidney-shaped frame with a concave outer edge and an offset and narrowed strap bar. There is a shallow pin notch in the outer edge. There are file marks across every surface. The pin is missing. Measurements: Length 10.42mm: Width 16.93mm: Thickness 2.15mm: Weight 1.12g.
Created on: Friday 5th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1EF4AA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, copper-alloy, composite strap end of medieval date. Description: The strap-end comprises two sub-rectangular, slightly tapering plates of sheet copper-alloy with a straight edge at the wider attachment end and a rounded terminal at the opposite, narrower end. There are the remains of a leather strap in-situ between the plates at the attachment end. The plates are held in place with two copper-alloy rivets, one at each end, along the centre line. Measurements: Length 25.43mm: Width 9.94mm: Thickness 1.88mm: Weight 1.51g
Created on: Monday 1st October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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