Record ID: LIN-1483E9
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete late Early Medieval to Medieval cast copper-alloy stirrup mount, dating to AD 1000-1100.  Williams Class A, Type 11A. The mount is sub-triangular with convex sides and a curved base with two rivet holes. At the top is a circular attachment loop. The plate is decorated with a moulded animal(possibly a  lion) facing right with head facing left. The animal is enclosed by a plain border. The animal's tail is raised. The back of the mount is flat and undecorated. The mount is mostly covered with a da…
Created on: Friday 14th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Normanton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LIN-48917C
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A zoomorphic post medieval to modern copper alloy snake-shaped strap fitting dating to the 19th to 20th century.  The cast strap fitting is S-shaped and sub oval is cross section being wider than it is thick.  Both sides of the sinuous fitting have a moulded decoration giving the impression of scales.  The reptilian head is decorated on one side only with a snout, oval eyes above and a slightly raised crest on top.  The strap fitting is dark brown with a light green patina and has been bent.  Similar to LIN-C66051. Length: 35.69 mm, Width 17.44 mm, Thickn…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-3E9E8D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, copper alloy, snake-shaped strap fitting with double headed zoomorphoric terminals, possibly goose heads, that curve back towards the centre.  The centre of the strap fitting is wider than the terminals and is decorated with a central band around the circumference holding feathers or wings.  Post medieval, 1600-1800AD.  Mid brown in colour with a green patina.  Similar to BERK 360764. Length: 36.38 mm, Width: 15.93 mm, Thickness: 4.54 mm, Weight: 9.74g.
Created on: Friday 27th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-C5AB8F
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy flat cast object bearing the image of a fish on one side, the reverse is plain with no indication of a fitment. The fish is well depicted  with a tail, a dorsal and a basal fin and eleven raised pimples across its body and fins. Unknown period. Length: 18.3mm; width: 14.5mm; thickness: 2.2mm; weight: 1.34g See - DUR-EB76EC and WMID-581A84
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2022
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-3F2693
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic clasp dating to the late medieval period c. AD 1300 - 1400. The frame is sub-rectangular in form and section with a sub-rectangular bar and a zoomorphic end.The face comprises small nodular-shaped ears on the side bars, V-shaped brows above small v-shaped eyes. The nose extends from the tip of the brow with the nostrils flaring above the mouth on the outer edge. The reverse is recessed and undecorated. The strap plate is missing. Length 19 mm, width 9 mm, thickness 3 mm and weight 2.1 g.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-89F702
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early medieval Irish enamelled buckle plate dating to c.AD 600-900 The buckle plate is sub-triangular with concave edges, gently tapering to one end and terminating with a circular recess that would have held a setting. It is ornately decorated on one side with zoomorphic and geometric fields filled with alternating yellow and pale cream champlevé enamel. The plate is decorated with a pair of parallel open-jawed zoomorphic creatures depicted in profile, appearing to frame or 'bite' the circular recess. Inside the circular recess are faint concentric grooves an…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th April 2022
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Record ID: LIN-CDF0BC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of a bird (cockerel or hen) dating to the period AD 100-200. The brooch takes the form of a strutting cockerel (or hen) with a flat body, forward facing head, curved tail, leg and foot. The pin is missing and part of the catch plate has survived. The body is crescentic in shape with a prominent curved breast and inwardly arched back. The body is decroated with a sub-rectangular recess with a dog-tooth or serrated edge, still carrying a vivid red enamel. At one end the body extends into a curved neck that is sub-triangu…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 30th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Kesteven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-130A7B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch dating to c.AD 475-550. The brooch has a rectangular head plate, decorated along the border borders with a stamped zig-zag line design with one half now very worn. The head plate has a central rectangular panel which is slightly raised. The panel is the same width as the bow; the two long sides have a border design of regularly stamped motif of a triangle and dot at the apex. The head plate has three integral knobs. The one opposite the bow and the one on the right (viewed looking at the fro…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nettleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-7BFE9B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy, partially enamelled, T-shaped ('Sawfish') sprung brooch with a zoomorphic crest, a moulded recumbent dog seated proud from the bow, dating to c.AD 75 -200. The wings are D-shaped in cross-section, flat at the front with a rounded back and a seam along centre back containing an axis bar for a hinged pin. The top of the wings is decorated with two parallel incised lines at the tip with multiple small incisions between these lines and a diagonal groove from the lower open end to the upper point either side of the bow with multiple small incisions b…
Created on: Friday 19th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-1DD870
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy early medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) strap end dating to the 9th century AD. Only a small portion of the object has survived - the zoomorphic terminal. The object is sub-rectangular, tapering towards the zoomorphic face. The detail of the animal head is very worn, comprising rounded ears with central annulets and a slightly raised head. The snout has broken off. A small portion of the strap end body has survived: it is decorated with a column of an interlaced pattern. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The piece is of Thomas' Class A design with…
Created on: Monday 27th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
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Record ID: LIN-1AB38A
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval mount (hook escutcheon) from a hanging bowl with champlevé enamel dating to c.AD 550-700. The plate is sub-triangular with a rounded knop at the pointed end and a curved hook at the rounded end. Both elements are integral to the plate, which has outwardly bevelled sides resulting in a slightly concave reverse. The hook is in the form of a bird's neck and head. There are very worn short grooves on the outer longer edge of the beak perhaps delineating worn facial features. On one side of the bird's head is a circular recess filled with red enamel, perh…
Created on: Monday 27th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
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Record ID: LIN-1F3D6D
Object type: SHIELD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) iron and copper-alloy gilded shield boss-apex disc dating to the 6th century AD. The object consists of a narrow-rimmed apex disc measuring 39.95 x 37.48 mm that is decorated with a pair of confronted crouched creatures consisting of two profile Style I animals in a gilded, relief-cast field. The two creatures are quadrupeds, each with a raised front limb. the animal's heads comprise curved profile heads that flare at the terminal and curl upwards at the opposite end. They have a small oval pellet for an eye, below are curved ridges for the e…
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Record ID: LIN-1A6792
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) florid cruciform brooch, dating to the 5th to 6th century AD. Only a small portion of the brooch survives, probably part of the footplate or headplate knob. The object is irregular with broken edges. It is decorated with a central triangular element that would have originally formed the crescentic terminal, now broken and worn, delineated by a band with incised grooves. On both sides of the central aspect are a pair of upturned scrolls also carrying short incised grooves. The reverse is undecorated. Dark green p…
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 25th November 2021
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Record ID: LIN-6337A9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an unidentified object of unknown date. The object is in the form of a horse and only the long face, curved neck and slightly raised shoulder and forearm have survived. The creature's lips appear slightly parted. The reverse is undecorated and flat. Measurements: Length: 17.28 mm; Width: 11.66 mm; Thickness: 1.82 mm; Weight: 1.09g
Created on: Monday 6th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th October 2021
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Record ID: LIN-62DAA2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a late Roman copper-alloy dolphin buckle, either Hawkes and Dunning Type IA or IIB, dating to c.AD 350-450. Only one part of the confronted dolphin heads now survives, with its mouth open, a recessed circular dot for an eye, a rectangular mane or ridge decorated with diagonal grooves, the neck tapers to a broken blunt point. Hawkes and Dunning Type IIB. The reverse is flat and undecorated. Measurements: Length (from upper lip to neck): 22.21 mm; Width (Top of mane/ridge to lower lip): 15.63 mm; Thickness: 3.68 mm; Weight: 3.48g
Created on: Monday 6th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Record ID: LIN-CB5E43
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman zoomorphic plate brooch in the form of a running hare or rabbit. It is missing its pin but is otherwise complete. The plate is flat and in the form of a hare or rabbit with a rounded snout. The eye is indicated by two incised rings one inside the other. Only the stub of the ear remains. The body is oval in form with an extended forepaw that has been broken off. The body arches upwards and then curves down to the short remaining part of the leg. The front face is divided into three panels. The central panel is a parallelogram the sides of which slo…
Created on: Saturday 13th March 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
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Record ID: LIN-183D6D
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) grave assemblage consisting of one cruciform brooch, two applied disc brooches from a purported cremation burial. Assemblage: Cruciform brooch dating to c.AD 475-550 It is of Martin Type 1.2.2 dated to c.AD 475-550 which has a distribution of Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the East Midlands with some outliers (Martin fig, 8, p.27). The brooch consists of a rectangular headplate with notches along the upper and lower edges and a central top knob positioned on the uppermost edge. The top knob is domed with a flat circular element on the…
Created on: Friday 15th January 2021
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cammeringham area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-33FD52
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic object, probably a Roman nail-cleaner, with a small three-dimensional duck-shaped bird on the top sitting on a horizontal cone, which is phallic in appearance. The lower half is a trapezoidal plate-projection with a tiny attachment hole 10mm from the bottom. Holding the object with the bird facing left the lower half also has a sub-circular decorative pattern of tiny pits carved onto the surface. There is no decoration on the reverse of the mount. The lower portion of the toilet article is missing. The whole object measurements are: length 28.7mm, w…
Created on: Sunday 11th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Rauceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-8CF176
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast, copper-alloy, gilded early medieval brooch dating to the 6th century AD. Most likely a fragment of a laterally expanded headplate knob decorated in Style I. Possibly belonging to Martin's Group 4, the 'florid' series. The design consists of central pelta form filled with the sinuous chip-carved Style I disarticulated animal bodies, this motif is framed by a pair of upturned beaked heads. Below each beak is a circular perforation. In the upper portion of the pelta design is another circular perforation that could represent an old break and repair during its …
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2020
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-CEE464
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) stirrup mount, dating to AD 1000-1100. It consists of a sub-rectangular plate, which has a lower edge slightly flanged backwards and pierced with a circular hole at each corner, now blocked. The upper edge of the plate has three rounded protrusions at the corners and one at the centre; below are a transverse row of circular grooves. The front face of the plate has a protruding cast animal head, which bears several curved grooves to mark the face's details. The head is surrounded by four circular grooves; to the right of th…
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 10th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Welton le Marsh', grid reference and parish protected.