Record ID: NLM-E7A4C8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A narrow straight-sided strip with a drilled rivet hole of diameter 1.7mm towards one end and possibly broken across a further hole at the other. The rivet hole may hint at a medieval date. A function associated with a strap or as a strap fitting might be implied by its narrow form. Suggested date: possibly Medieval, 1250-1400 Length: 29mm, Width: 6.6mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 0.77gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E72EA6
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A rectangular sheet metal plate with a series of closely spaced [8 per cm] fine grooves of length 15mm extending from one straight edge, and with faint traces of grooves and a split in the opposite side. Probably for a craft usage. Marks of this form on bones have been associated with the making of pins, on ‘pinner’s bones’, though at a larger scale. Similar close spacing is also seen on comb teeth, so this object might have figured in the cutting of comb teeth – small one-piece bone combs for beards and moustaches are known fro…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-519808
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object fragment. A small shard from a flat thin [1mm] plate which is broken on all sides and bears a figurative inscribed scene on one flat face. This depicts the head of a creature, perhaps a fish or serpent with a rather human-looking eye and expression, with flames or other issue from its elongated snout. This might represent some entirely different subject in this form, for example a constellation. A border interrupted by a triangular-topped feature appears below the image and indeterminate elements of the wider composition appear above. Suggested date: Late Medie…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2C874B
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A plate of sheet metal of lobed form with one straight edge and with three stamped intersecting swags with floral motifs between them on its front. A U-shaped drawn wire fitting lay flat on the back – detached during examination – as well as a thicker [diameter 1.7mm] wire fragment which is curled at either end presented along with the larger object. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Width (plate): 38.6mm, Height: 29mm, Thickness: 0.5mm, Combined Weight: 4.71gms
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-2B8636
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A fragment of pressed metal sheet with a series of closely-spaced grooves with a central impression, and with a small [diameter 1.7mm] fixing hole to one side. The use of a riveted fixing may point to an earlier date than would usually be considered for an otherwise non-diagnostic scrap. Possibly a mount from the corner of an object. Suggested date: possibly Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Width: 18.1mm, Height: 19.3mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 0.96gms
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-C4E04E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Triangle of thin sheet metal with two rounded corners and two tiny [diameter 1.1mm] holes, one blind. Possibly for a small value from a set of chemist’s weights. The discovery of a scale of Roman lorica squamata (NLM-C42002) which also has cut corners, reported along with this object, might alternatively suggest this to be another piece of scale armour, albeit of different form. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1850 Length: 12.9mm, Width: 13.3mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 0.45gms
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-ABD185
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A cast D-section object now forming an oval penannular loop which is tapered towards either end, with a slightly thickened roughened zone on the flat back near its midpoint. The massy character of casting may commend a Roman date. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Length: 40.8mm, Width: 19.1mm, Thickness (clear of midpoint): 3.6mm, Weight: 6.22gms
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-ED3B79
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A tiny sherd from the slightly thickened edge of an object with a curving edge; flat-backed, so probably not part of a vessel rim. A groove on the outer edge may hint at the lathe finishing of the object. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700 Width: 25mm, Height: 15.1mm, Thickness: 3.2mm, Weight: 4.11gms
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-B04985
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A scrap of thick [1mm] sheet metal with the impression either of a domed rivet head or a stamped ring and dot, of diameter 10mm and rust-stained, on one side; and the edge of a punched hole of diameter 2.4mm on the other. Suggested date: possibly Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Length: 21.3mm, Width: 18.1mm, Thickness: 1mm, Weight: 2.29gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AD1FF6
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. Cast T-shaped fragment with four knops, flat on the back linked by short integrally cast bars. Presented with buckles and strap fittings. Suggested date: possibly Medieval, 1250-1400 Length: 23.6mm, Height: 19.8mm, Thickness: 5.1mm, Weight: 3.95gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4C7A47
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A pressed metal openwork object, possibly of cylindrical form but now flattened, with a billeted basal band with a fringe below and a dense arrangement of florets above. The form and decoration might both be apt to a pomander, but other equipment ranging from items for a lady’s dressing table to her costume jewellery might equally bear such motifs. A feminine interest might be adduced. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Height: 29mm, Width: 30mm, Thickness: 0.9mm, Weight: 4.28gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-48A2D8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified objects. Two similar cylindrical objects of sheet metal (a and b), apparently rolled with butted seams, and both bearing groups of two or four neatly circumferentially incised lines. The finder reports the objects were closely associated if not interleaved. Similar objects have been speculatively identified as needle cases of late medieval date or more authoritatively as ramrod pipes from muskets of early post-medieval date, albeit the construction seems rather light for the latter usage. The tubes have both been opened by light squashing. Suggested date: Unkn…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-4641B9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. Cast rectangular section bar, curved so as to suggest a diameter of c.70mm had the original form been circular, now broken at one end and with a small hooked projection at the other, also with a rounded edge. Now lightly bent. The recurrent curves and form might hint at this being from a mechanism, as for a large clock, or from early agricultural machinery. The form might equally suggest a vessel handle though what remains would not be comfortable to hold or carry. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 74.7mm, Width: 7.8mm, Th…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scredington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B80469
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. The finder kindly suggests a function as a book clasp. Cast straight-sided plate, now lightly concavo-convex, with a rectangular tab at one end, engrailed at the other. Two large [diameter 4.7mm] rivets pass through the plate and are burred on the reverse having apparently passed through a thinner sheet metal plate – if the scraps remaining pinned under the burred ends of the rivets are not improvised roves. The form might equally be apt to a buckle plate, though as either book fitting or buckle plate there seems no allowance for any intervening …
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-62D4BC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A two-part object comprising a flat-backed symmetrical moulded bar with finely cross-cut hemispheres linked by a double collar with a collared triangular loop at either end, one loop retaining a narrower [width 5.2mm] folded moulded bar with rounded ends linked by a rivet; the loss of an equivalent part from the other end is presumed. Gilding traces appear on the broader bar. There is a vague resemblance to chains for domestic use (Egan 1998 fig. 40) though the flat-backed presumably central part may have been set against a surface such as a casket. Su…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A4B635
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Little scoop-like object with hole on one side and incised lines on outside. No idea whatsoever [source record]. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Length: 21.5mm, Width: 8.1mm, Thickness: 8.1mm, Weight: 3.75gms
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-8CF32D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A fragment of cast copper alloy with a sharp angle, bent and broken around all edges and fiercely abraded. A broad date range is commended by an accompanying fragment of a socketed axe-head. Suggested date: Unknown, Late Bronze Age to Post-Medieval, 1000 BC-AD1700 Length: 18mm, Width: 17.7mm, Thickness: 3.8mm, Weight: 9.02gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-0EDFBC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. Cast terminal from an object; a lentoid or ogival plate with opposed pointed spurs projecting from its base, broken from a continuing stem close to the spurs. The dull back of the object might suggest it had been set as a mount on or into a flat surface. The display side bears fine longitudinal lines and the stamped legend: PATENT. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 33.6mm, Width: 12.4mm, Thickness: 1.4mm, Weight: 2.71gms
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-F82AAB
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A concavo-convex sheet metal object with a narrow border and two drilled fixing holes of diameter 1.9mm at its slightly narrower end. A concave form appears to be integral to an uncertain function while the riveted fixing may point to a medieval date. Possibly bent. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Length: 22.7mm, Width: 14.5mm, Thickness: 1mm, Height (i.e. protrusion): 2.2mm, Weight: 1.48gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E954EC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A short round-section bar with rounded ends and with an integrally cast short [length 10.8mm] conical object which is separated from the bar by a shallow gutter on either side. Possibly from a mechanism; if so, subjected to heavy wear. The form might alternatively suggest an attachment bar at one end of a fob chain, but other possibilities may include part of a toy. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950 Length: 28.7mm, Width: 12.6mm, Diameter (bar): 5.4mm, Weight: 6.75gms
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
No spatial data available.