Record ID: SF-4424E5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete hone stone of uncertain date. It is formed from a grey schist and terminates in old breaks towards its base. The hone is triangular in form and section, with flattened and slightly rounded suspension end and flaring base. At the suspension end is a drilled central circular aperture that is slightly wider in diameter on one face than the other. The two wider faces of the hone demonstrate signs of use-wear and become substantially thinner towards the old breaks probably as a result of extended periods of usage. This object measures 42.99mm in length, 16.68mm in width, 9.3…
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-848D45
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fine grained, dark grey, oval-ended sandstone, broken at one end, used as a whetstone. A cone shaped stone with 3 sides having flat surfaces that have been smoothed by wear, and show evidence of being used for sharpening blades. The back is slightly concave and rougher. The improvised use of various stones from glacial drift for sharpening or rubbing stones is characteristic of the Roman and early Medieval periods until the Viking Age, when Scandinavian stones from the Telemark region became widely available. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to early Medieval, 43 - 850. The known hist…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-776B49
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine grained dense grey stone, possible rubber or whetstone. Flat-sided oval ended river-washed pebble; one end chipped. The surface is possibly smoothed by wear overall. The form is probably natural and the stone derived from glacial drift. This might have been used as an improvised polisher for organic materials, including textiles, or alternatively as a whetstone. The use of adventitiously recovered stones for such functions is especially characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon period, sandwiched as it is between eras characterised by more systematic exploitation and marketing of stones …
Created on: Thursday 16th July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2015
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Record ID: NLM-6D1CB4
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine grained compacted sandstone whetstone fragment. A rectangular section fragment probably from the middle of a whetstone, possibly of hog-backed formAll the faces save for the broken ends are smoothed by wear. Two faces meeting at an obtuse angle are likely to mark the top of the whetstone, and a dished face opposite these faces its most heavily used and worn face. The selection of a local [to northern Britain] rather than an imported stone may suggest a pre-Viking date. The hog-backed form in such stones occurs amongst early medieval finds at Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire (Fo…
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6D2E8B
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ferruginous limestone probable whetstone fragment. Stone shaped like an oversized finger with one markedly smoothed broad surface which is lightly dished by wear and lightly scored by diagonal and transverse grooves suggestive of the sharpening of pointed pins or needles. Limited patches of wear have also partially smoothed the opposite face. Broken raggedly at its wider end. The use of a relatively local stone is likely, which is characteristic of hones of the Later Iron Age to Early Medieval periods. Accompanying material tends to point to the later part of this date-range. Suggeste…
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-F85E33
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fine grained, pale grey, oblong shaped sandstone, with some plough damage at one end of the reverse face, used as a whetstone. Both faces are smoothed by wear, and the edges are rounded and show evidence of being used for sharpening blades. The improvised use of various stones from glacial drift for sharpening or rubbing stones is characteristic of the Roman and Early Medieval periods until the Viking Age, when Scandinavian stones from the Telemark region became widely available. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-850. The known history of the site leans towards…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-192B23
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone of probable early-medieval date, c. AD 410 - 1100. The whetstone is formed from a grey, fine-grained schist. It is sub-rectangular with sloping sides and trapezoidal in cross section. One end is broken. Two sides are flat and smooth. The other sides are damaged. At one end is a centrally positioned drilled hole with a diameter of c.7 mm. Length 88 mm: Width 36 mm: Thickness: 14 mm: Weight 120.06 g
Created on: Wednesday 30th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Osbournby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-9FE32C
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, early medieval whetstone, dating to the period c.AD 410-1066. The whetstone is broadly rectangular with a tapering point and rectangular in cross-section. The tapered terminal is faceted, creating a flat-topped rectangular pyramid. The other terminal is angled to an off-centre rounded point. At its widest is it 27.85 mm and 17.78 mm at the thinnest end. The stone is grey-brown in colour, with micaceous inclusions. The whetstone measures 54.27 mm in length, 27.63mm in width (at widest) and 16.17 mm (opposite end), 13.69 mm at thickest and 11.18 mm at thinnest part and we…
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Carlton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-05E756
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular late Saxon lead weight in abraded condition. On one face a S-shaped groove is inlaid with black material, probably niello, while on the other a reversed S is similarly inlaid. 20.5 x 18.5 x 8.5mm. Weighing 26.86g. A rectangular form is not the norm for Late Saxon weights, but the weight of this piece is quite close to the suggested weight unit of 26.6g for Viking Dublin (Kruse 1992, 86).
Created on: Friday 14th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2FB546
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Saxon discoidal lead weight with a cast openwork copper alloy sheath or cover. On both faces, two sub-triangular and two D-shaped apertures are outlined by a reserved pair of addorsed C-shapes. The edge is convex. The surface of the lead within the apertures is not flush with that of the sheath, but is pitted to varying depths. It measures 27mm in diameter, is 10.5mm thick and weighs 46.66g. This is 1.5000oz Troy / 720 grains / 30 pennyweights or 2 shillingweights and 6 pennyweights, i.e. precisely one tenth of a mercantile pound of 7200 grains or one eighth of a Troy pound. …
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 27th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton with Fishley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E00012
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy cast discoidal un-inscribed weight, convex sided ('truncated sphere'). Diameter 22mm, thickness 13mm. Weighing 44.25 g, 1.5610 oz, 682.8 grains. Some slight damage to surface. The weight may (although slightly underweight) represent 2 of the postulated Scandinavian units of 24.4 ±0.8g (Kruse 1992), i.e. 47.2g to 50.4g.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6BE546
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with a rectangular figure scored on one face and small (length 1.25mm) wedge shaped punch marks on both its flat surfaces, some arranged in groups, and one group of five forming a rosette pattern. Patinated overall. The mass could suggest this to represent five Anglo-Saxon units of 3.1gms (Smith 1923 and Kruse 1992, cited by Wastling 2009 [Flixborough finds] page 422). The rosette motif resembles motifs in the repertoire of stamps used to decorate cremation urns of the Early Anglo-Saxon period, and its construction here from five stamps might allude to…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2015
Last updated: Friday 26th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2217D2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast discoidal weight, flat face with nineteen ring-and-dots arranged in the form of a cross potent, rounded chamfer around edge on base. A small almost central perforation in the face splays on the reverse and contains the remains of a plug comprising decayed pale grey/whitish material, probably lead. Diameter 14mm, thickness 4mm. Weighing 53.6 grains, 3.48 g. This weight bears resemblance to some Early Anglo-Saxon weights and may relate to a weight system based on a unit of c. 3.1 g (Scull 1990, 187). However if the plug were intact the difference in weight would be even greater.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-360DF6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy tinned weight, polyhedral, rectangular-sectioned square with corners cut-off (13 x 13mm, 11mm thick), engraved bordering lines on each of the facets, opposed larger faces with tapering perforation, single dot on each of the remaining facets. Weighing 13.32g / 205.2 grains. This weight is less than 0.01% overweight for three of one of the three postulated weight units (4.43g) of the Late Saxon period. (Kruse 1992, 80).
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morton on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-1DA0A5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval lead-alloy weight with inserted copper-alloy decorative panel. The artefact takes the form of quadrant-shaped block with vertical outer sides and a flat base. A chip carved copper-alloy panel has been inserted into the upper surface of the weight, occupying most of the weight's upper surface, with which it sits flush. The decoration is skilfully executed, comprising an elaborate interlace pattern of ridges and 'V-shaped' grooves. The design is that of a stylised, winged, dragon-like animal, entwined with foliate spirals. The left-facing head of the beast is located…
Created on: Friday 7th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weymouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-BACA51
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy weight (c. 450-c. 1000). This weight is circular in plan. The sides are facetted and chamfered curving to a smaller, slightly convex, almost flat base. It is unclear how many facets there are. The flat upper face is decorated with seven ring-and-dot motifs. Six motifs form a circle close to the edge and another is close to the centre. This object has a coarse surface with a greenish brown patina. There are small breaks on the edge of the upper surface. Diameter: 12.6mm; thickness: 4.0mm. Weight: 3.21g. (49.6 grains)…
Created on: Saturday 21st October 2017
Last updated: Saturday 28th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-747ACC
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object, possibly an early Anglo-Saxon weight. It is an irregular oval, 15.2mm long and 10.0mm wide, and flat, tapering very slightly from 3.8mm thick at one end to 3.3mm at the other. One face is decorated with seven dots set in a cross, again slightly irregular. The other face is smoothly polished and undecorated. It weighs 2.85g. It is similar in size to an object from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site of Ozengell but now lost, thought to be a weight; another from the same site has five dots perhaps corresponding to a weight-standard of 2 tremisses (Scull 1990, f…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-A6A12E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Medieval lead-filled copper alloy pan weight (c.AD 950-1150). The weight consists of a circular lead-filled copper alloy sheath. Both faces are decorated with an openwork saltire of two opposing arches, one pair semi-circular and one pair sub-triangular with a pointed apex. On both faces the semi-circular arches are framed by an incised line following the outline of the arch, but which in several places has pierced the copper alloy sheath to reveal the underlying lead core. Where visible the lead core is pitted but in places protudes above the encasing sheath. The lateral sur…
Created on: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CBE8A6Z
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Weight, discoidal with chamfered outside edge, weighs 71.2 grains, 4.62g. This is close to Scull's (1990) standard weight of c.1.55g x 3 (= c. 4.65g). Mid 5th - 7th century.
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 6th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caistor St Edmund', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-58E485
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Post-medieval one ounce trade weight, dating from the reign of George III or George IV (AD 1750-1820). The trade weight is circular in plan with a raised outer rim and a concaved central reverse; on the upper face are four symbol or control and identification marks; at 12 o'clock, a sword (for St Paul, the City of London Guildhall mark); at 3 o'clock, a crowned letter G (King Geroge); at 6 o'clock, a ewer (for the London Founders Company); and at 9 o'clock, a capital letter A, for Averdepois which denotes the type of scale). The weight is 27.6 grams, or 0.976 ounce…
Created on: Wednesday 11th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.