Record ID: NLM-F7D84A
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy tankard. Cast cylindrical model of a tankard, hollow, with an integrally cast moulded handle projecting from the mould line along one side. It is possible that other features were set opposite, where two surface irregularities may be either stubs from another handle or casting flaws. At least four rows of tiny moulded dots ascend the vessel wall, and it has a slightly expanded foot ring. Forsyth and Egan (2005, page 293 no. 8.128) illustrate a toy lidded tankard of 17th or 18th-century date from London. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1675-1775 Height: 23.7mm, Diameter (…
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

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-2B102F
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Small discoid button of composite construction with a stamped front depicting Britannia seated left with a tree to the right within a circular band bearing an undeciphered legend. The back retains a drawn wire loop in a mass of encrustation. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Diameter: 15.2mm, Thickness (overall): 5mm, Weight: 1.50gms
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B00EDB
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal matrix. Cast circular matrix with a tapered faceted handle with a collared trefoil suspension loop. The handle and loop are abraded but the engraved matrix remains crisp. It depicts [on the imprint] a stag running left, with the legend: *TIMET  E DEVM [he fears God?] – this reporter would welcome a reading making better use of the middle E character. Malcolm Jones kindly comments: 'It's the common inscription TIMETE DEVM [fear God] -- a (plural) imperative -- the E between the stag;s legs belongs to the incomplete TIMET'. Suggested dat…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

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-EF8659
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible toy fragment. Cast solid disc or wheel with a thin outer rim with faint fine radial lines and with a small central pit, possibly from a toy motor car with a tyred wheel or spare wheel represented. Patinated. The character Noddy, a creation of 1950s children’s author Enid Blyton, drove a yellow car which would be equipped with wheels like this. Suggested date: Modern, 1920-1960 Diameter: 18.7mm, Thickness: 3.4mm, Weight: 7.09gms
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9D2CDB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. Cast circular spacer plate fragment from a strap end of composite construction with a collared acorn knop on its outer edge with the cup of the acorn textured by cross-cuts, with silvery traces of solder. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1450 Length: 37.7mm, Width: 20.6mm, Thickness (at knop): 4.5mm, Weight: 3.89gms
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B437FE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Pressed metal annular frame with four cabled and symmetrically distributed loops, each springing from a cabled band on the loop. The object appears to represent a life-saving ring. A pin seat and curled catch are brazed to the back. The introduction of flotation aids for fishermen was documented by photography in 19th-century Whitby, so a recent date may be inferred, and a possible seaside, maritime or humanitarian interest might be invoked. Bent. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1875-1925 Diameter: 25.4mm, Band Width: 4.8mm, Band Thickness: 1.1mm, Weight:…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CF8E1D
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead plaque [source record]. Circular lead plaque with female bust wearing an odd, possibly feather headdress or crown. suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600 Diameter: 31.0mm, Thickness: 5.0mm, Weight: 17.78gms
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BAE8AA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-gilt brooch. Silver gilt anthropomorphic annular brooch, rude. On left naked female, on right male wearing a piped headdress; the pin projects from the [draped] groin of the male and extends towards the pudenda of the female; a phallic conceit would be emphasised by the passage of pin through a hole in a strap. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400 Height: 16.1mm, Width: 11.5mm, Thickness: 3.4mm, Weight: 1.34gms.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
No spatial data available.

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-8E38E9
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy game piece. Lead cast figurine of a standing man with folded arms, wearing a tailcoat. Looks very Napoleonic, could well be the black king from a contemporary chess game. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1820-1900 Height: 33.1mm, Width: 11.5mm, Thickness: 18.0mm, Weight: 12.30gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-0CB70D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy and iron unidentified object fragment. Cast concavo-convex object moulded as the top of the head or frontlet of an antlered stag, with the stubs of two naturalistically modelled antlers rising from its crown. A possible garland of oak leaves may be represented round the base of the object as it survives. Rust and the possible relict of an iron object appear in the hollow base, which is broken all around. This object appears to have become detached from a figurative ornament of venereal [i.e. relating to hunting] interest, possibly a themed table decoration or similar. Severa…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7D765F
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy badge, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast openwork badge representing St Michael the Archangel, winged, bareheaded and hirsute, dressed in full plate armour and brandishing a sword above his head in his right hand. A small oval shield possibly charged with the cross of St George is carried on his left. The left foot of the figure tramples on a small dragon with four folds to its fan-shaped wing with head turned up to face its assailant – as usual, the combat appears unequally in favour of the Archangel. A cabled border runs round the sides and base of the …
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

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-8533F4
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pilgrim badge. Lead cast rectangular plaque, remains of two attachment on back; the subject could be the Annunciation. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500 Height: 20.3mm, Width: 17.8mm, Thickness: 5.6mm, Weight: 4.35gms
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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.