Record ID: NLM-65E80A
Object type: FOB
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold and glass fob seal, as kindly identified by the finder. A thin casing of reddish gold with a billeted band passing round three sides to afford grip and with a billeted frame for a flat polished opaque black glass gem engraved with the image of a snake passing left through long grass, with the reversed legend above: BEWARE. The base of the casing is dented. Richard Hudson kindly and promptly comments as follows: 'I was just looking through the Finds Database and came across the fob NLM-65E80A. It has been described as depicting a snail in the grass but I’d suggest that th…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1B1275
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and silver furniture fitting. Head of a young adult male, wreath with ivy leaves, some trace of futher attachment on front, now lost. Eyes inlaid with silver, a fur is worn over the left shoulder only. Bust seems to be emerging from leaves which look decidedly like lotus petals. Belongs into the context of the oriental religions. Is there such a thing like a Bacchus -Nefertem??Groove on back, furniture fitting Suggested date: Late Roman, 200-300 Height: 49.6mm, Width: 32.1mm, Thickness: 21.6mm, Weight: 111.79gms
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A36366
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy possible toy. Plain ampulla or toy jug. Lead cast. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500 Height: 33.0mm, Width: 26.3mm, Thickness: 20.3mm, Weight: 31.56gms
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-8EA4FE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Small pressed sheet belt mount, scallop shaped. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Height: 15.1mm, Width: 14.4mm, Thickness [i.e. protrusion]: 2.0mm, Weight: 0.42gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-7D0AFD
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy fragment. Hollow-cast head and neck of a bridled horse modelled at a scale somewhat larger than 54mm/1:32, with a distinctively broad brow and protruding eyes and with a mane falling to one side. The metal retains a greyish tint. The scale and somewhat coarse modelling point to a product of one of the early 20th-century competitors of toymaker William Britains - Johillco made slightly larger figures - probably representing a mounted soldier or cowboy. Abraded. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1939 Height: 29.7mm, Width: 35.4mm, Thickness (wall of casting): 1.2mm, Weigh…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holton le Clay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-67C7B8
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button fragment, as kindly suggested by the finder. Part of a cast disc with incised figurative Neo-Classical decoration on its display side. A draped facing figure holds a vertical palm in its right hand, there is perhaps a vertical column to the right. A cabled border appears at opposite edges. A lug on the back bears rust suggesting the loss of a ferrous metal loop. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Diameter: 36mm, Thickness (clear of loop site): 1.1mm, Weight: 3.74gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E6BCF3
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver possible spoon fragment. The upper part of a cast naturalistically rendered figurine modelled at a scale of c.1:25, representing the shoulders of a bearded man wearing a top hat at a rakish angle and smoking a large-bowled pipe with curved stem; there is a moulded hollow under each armpit at about the level where the figurine has broken. The flat top of the hat is polished by light wear. This object is here taken to be part of a secular version of an apostle spoon and may represent a fictional character: possibly a member of The Pickwick Club, a fictional society whose adventure…
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1D89A6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle plate fragment. Fragment of a sheet metal buckle plate with incised animal decoration. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1300 Length: 30.2mm, Height: 26.2mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 3.62gms
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-F21676
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy basket of fish. Lead cast toy, a basket with fish. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800 Length: 40.7mm, Width: 18.6mm, Thickness: 4.3mm, Weight: 8.95gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-F09749
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Ae cast figurative apostle mount, with deep cells for enamel, now only traces of some red enamel left, trace of gilding, Limoges. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1300 Length: 52.6mm, Width: 18.4mm, Thickness: 6.6mm, Weight: 7.87gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B77B58
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible vessel fragment. Very stylised leg, possibly from a statuette or a knife handle [from database accompanying source record]; this reporter [MF] would see this as a vessel leg, possibly representing the mailed leg and fooit of an armoured knight. The absence of reference to sooting and a gracile form may suggest the vessel was an item of tableware like a ewer, rather than a cooking vessel. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1350 Length: 42.8mm, Width: 11.4mm, Thickness: 20.1mm, Weight: 25.70gms
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B659D4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Arrow shaped cast sword belt mount with two cast prongs on back. Remains of silvering/tinning on front. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Length: 20.5mm, Width: 11.7mm, Thickness: 2.8mm, Weight: 2.41gms
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A54334
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness pendant. Very small scallop shaped mount suspending a very small scallop shaped harness pendant. Some trace of gilding. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Height: 32mm, Width: 9.8mm, Thickness: 7.9mm, Weight: 2.95gms
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A41479
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Led figurine. Lead cast Sheila Na Gig, dancing, in a garment resembling a ballet dancer's tutu, raised to expose slit female genitalia. MF considers a post-medieval date to be possible. Suggested date (source record): Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Height: 38.8mm, Width: 29.4mm, Thickness: 9.3mm, Weight: 29.48gms
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-77D30B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast silver Roman ring with an oval cornelian in the bezel c. 3rd century AD. The loop has prominent angles/keels, above are triangular shoulders. The ring aperture is slightly ovoid, with a ‘D’ shaped profile. The oval cornelian sits within a broadly octagonal bezel (17.8mm x 15mm). The charioteer is driving a biga (a two-horse chariot) to the left, and is more unusual, depicting Cupid rather than the more commonly found Victory variation. The representation of the charioteer is naively chip carved, characterised by the Maaskant-Kleibrink as ‘i…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B81D3A
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly copper alloy seal matrix; source record comprises only an image of a circular seal impression, running hare in centre. *S' LOV FOLET. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1350 Diameter [of impression]: 18mm.
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9137E4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle plate. Small square cast buckle plate, animal decoration. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1250 Height: 16.0mm, Length [possibly]: 25.4mm [decimal point misplaced on source record], Weight: 3.04gms
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-39848B
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark green copper alloy figurine fragment. Small human figure with one arm raised onto the head, the other arm lowered. Rivet hole at lower end. From the posture, possibly representing Joan the Wad, a luck-bringing fairy. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1950 Height: 38.7mm, Width: 16.2mm, Thickness: 9.6mm, Weight: 18.39gms
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-264FCF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy brooch. Small lead cast brooch, bearded face surrounded by zig-zag line and dots. Face of Jesus, analogous to decoration of dresshooks [and biconical spindle whorls - MF]. Central casting seam on back. Suggested date: Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval, 1450-1550 Length: 19.2mm, Width: 22.7mm, Thickness: 2.9mm, Weight: 3.83gms
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: WMID-BD7BB4
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy terminal, 'end-cap' or pommel from a knife of Post Medieval dating (AD 1500 to AD 1600). This terminal is likely to have come from an iron scale tang knife. The terminal is in the form of a human head wearing a pointed hat or helmet with multiple vertically engraved lines perhaps suggesting hair with a double-banded ruff around the neck. The face comprises of two circular indents for eyes, a protruding, pointed nose, now partially worn, and a straight groove for the mouth. There is a slot for a tang at the base, extending up the length of the neck,…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.