Record ID: NLM-F32D44
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark brown patinated copper alloy possible figurine fragment. Severely damaged, arm with hand, joint at the top, incised decoration. Very weird. Suggested date: possibly Late Medieval, 1350-1500 Length: 55.1mm, Width: 7.8mm, Thickness: 8.6mm, Weight: 13.14gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BD7407
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Denarius of Trajan (98-117), as kindly identified by the finder who suggests it to be an issue of the mint of Rome 112-114, celebrating the completion of a road. Robustly cleaned by the finder. Sear vol. 2 no. 3173, citing RIC vol. 2 no. 266 Obverse description: Bust laureate right. Obverse inscription: IMP TRAIANO AVG CO[----] Reverse description: Figure reclining right but looking left holding an eight-spoked wheel; subsidiary legend in a broad exergue. Reverse inscription: [---]O OPTIMO PRINCIPI[O] In exergue: VIA TRAIANA Diameter: 19mm, Weight: 2.00…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-26EF28
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buttons. Two buttons: one is flat discoid with a drawn wire loop in a boss on the back and possibly painted black on its front; the other is a concavo-convex front from a composite button with rust-impregnated material in its hollow back. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Combined Weight: 7.76gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-26E804
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead shot. Cast ball, with faint mould line; patinated. A flattened patch of diameter 7mm may represent the use of a ramrod or impact damage. The mass may suggest this to have been for use with a light fowling piece or 'rook and rabbit' gun. Suggested date: post-Medieval, 1700-1800. Diameter: 11.1mm, Weight: 7.57gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-26E0DD
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button fragment. Probably die stamped flat discoid button with a low boss on the back for a loop [lost]. An incised radial design with a right hand spiral originates from central concentric lathe made rings at the centre of the front. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850. Diameter: 23.4mm, Thickness (clear of boss): 0.6mm, Weight: 2.45gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-26D4B9
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight. Cast object, probably originally discoid, with a sunken oval panel of length 7mm on one side, and subsequently hammered to an irregular sub-rectangular form, probably with further post-depositional damage; patinated. The mass may suggest this to represent four units of 4.07gms, as used in Viking Age Scandinavia for silver bullion transactions. The sunken panel might indicate the loss of an embedded object, a common feature of weights of the period, though it may per se have distinguished this object from others. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-950, Length:…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th June 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-26C987
Object type: TAG
Broad period: MODERN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dog tag. Milled disc, at first sight retaining no features on either side. One side does bear a splash of white metal, possibly as molten spillage. A magnified view, however, reveals the end of a legend in lettering of modern unseriffed style on one side. Now bent. Suggested date: Modern, 1940-1980. Diameter: 18.4mm, Thickness: 0.6mm, Weight: 1.48gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-26C00D
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible spoon fragment. Cast baluster-shaped stem from a spoon, with a collar at one end and an expanded and tapered moulding at the other, broken beyond either site. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1750. Length: 57.4mm, Diameter: 6.7mm, Weight: 9.52gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-26B7C2
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal matrix. Cast discoid matrix with engraved face and the stubs of a suspension loop at the end of a low rib on the back. The central motif may represent a quadruped, or possibly a hanging fleece; other figurative schemes might be suggested. The worn circumferential legend defies interpretation, but appears to include: [--]D [-] O V [-] E C R. Abraded. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1350. Diameter: 22.4mm, Thickness (clear of handle and rib): 2.1mm, Weight: 5.91gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-26AD27
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Three piece hollow composite discoid uniform button, with a drawn wire loop threaded into its back. A die stamped button front bears the image of a cannon and rammer/sponge below an arched Crown Imperial. The image may suggest an artillery unit, though not necessarily the Royal Artillery, as the Regimental motto is omitted. A separate back plate bears a stamped maker's back mark: [---]& WRIGHT LIMITED.BIRMINGHAM. The button front retains traces of green paint, suggesting it was attached to a uniform of khaki drab. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1920. Diameter: 22…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-269D67
Object type: SOLDERING LAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible soldering iron. Cast square section bar with a lightly waisted mid-part and expanded at either end. One, taken to be the working end, tapers to a four-sided point. The other end is curved around an aperture of diameter 8.9mm, part of a broken socket. This identification is offered following the lead of a commentator on another object of comparable form; this reporter would welcome better-informed comment on this object. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950. Length: 108.2mm, Thickness (at socketed end): 11.4mm, Weight: 56.33gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-13F527
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Concavo-convex discoid uniform button. A probably die stamped front bears the motif of a grenade with flame issuing from its touch hole, signifying in a British context a Fusilier or Grenadier Regiment, or possibly an artillery unit. An unusual form of four-stranded sub-pyramidal loop appears set centrally in the concave back. Suggested date: post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Diameter: 16.9mm, Height (overall): 7.4mm, Weight: 2.42gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-13EB8C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Cast plano-convex one piece plain discoid button with integrally cast and drilled loop. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700. Diameter: 9.0mm, Height: 9.9mm, Weight: 1.46gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-13E316
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead shot. Cast ball; patinated. The mass may suggest this to have been for use with a light fowling piece or 'rook and rabbit' gun. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800. Diameter: 11.3mm, Weight: 7.06gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-13DB96
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and lead candle holder. Cast vase-shaped holder with fluted body with curvilinear mouldings around its expanded top. A stepped rim surrounds a lead lined aperture of diameter 17.3mm. Grey metal also appears on the base of the object, as a flat plate with central rounded protrusion, which presumably met a further element here. The style is broadly Neo-Classical, which may indicate a later post-medieval date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850. Height: 42mm, Diameter: 26.2mm, Weight: 66.11gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-13D21C
Object type: MUSKET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible musket fragment. A symmetrical pair of cast copper alloy plates with moulded decorative detail, resembling a leaf or wing in their form, brazed to and linked at their upper ends by a round section open loop, and at their lower ends brazed to and linked by the square section arms of a Y-shaped object with a round section screw threaded shank below it. Possibly from the mechanism of a muzzle loading gun; the loops and Y shaped object appear aptly sized to permit a gun barrel to pass through or between them. It is, however, uncertain whether the current orientation …
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-13AF73
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Cast rectangular plate with bevelled edges and with an integrally cast square section fixing pin set centrally on the back, which is lightly hollowed. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700. Length: 13.7mm, Width: 12.9mm, Thickness (clear of fixing pin): 1.5mm, Weight: 2.43gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-13A05B
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible pencil; formerly termed a stylus. A cast rod of square section, crimped at one end and pulled to a four sided tapered point at the other; patinated, and now bent at its end. This may be a writing or marking implement made from lead scrap, and quite possibly only for use on, for example, a building site where such waste might be available (Foreman, M. 1991, 'The lead and lead alloy', in Armstrong, P. et al, Excavations at Lurk Lane, Beverley 1979-82, Sheffield Excavation Reports 1, John Collis, Sheffield, pages 155-163). Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500. Leng…
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 1st April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wheldrake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-138D25
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button fragment. Concavo-convex button front with the stubs of an attached loop; covered in white concretion, possibly burned. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Diameter: 21.5mm, Height: 4.3mm, Weight: 2.05gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elvington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-12E3DC
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buttons. Two small flat discoid buttons: one with a flat plain front and a boss on the back for its loop [lost]; and one black painted with a drawn wire loop flat against the back. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Combined Weight: 2.84gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elvington', grid reference and parish protected.