Record ID: NLM-D7B7D0
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained Sandstone possible whetstone fragment, as kindly identified by the finder. A fragment from the tapering end of a cobble whose sub-triangular section may initially have been defined by natural erosion by wind-blown sand or water. These smooth faces, however, appear to have been further smoothed by use as a sharpening stone, resulting in the formation of a shallow concavity or dishing on one of the sides. The improvised use of erratic pebbles as sharpening stones was common from later Prehistory, through the Roman period, and into the Early Medieval period. Suggested date: …
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 12th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B3A54B
Object type: NET SINKER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sandstone cobble probable net sinker. A flat-sided oval pebble with a hole towards one end of diameter 5.3mm apparently drilled from both sides. Probably subsequently water-rolled and smoothed. The form may suggest a small netsinker or a heftier weight for a fishing line. Larger versions of comparable forms from the River Thames are loosely ascribed to the medieval period (Steane, J.M. and Foreman. M. 1988). Suggested date: Early Medieval to Medieval, 900-1500 Length: 37.6mm, Width: 27.7mm, Thickness: 8.6mm, Weight: 13gms
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cleethorpes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-090ED8
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey composite stone whetstone fragment. A fragment of a cylindrical sharpening stone, with one narrow longitudinal flattened face from use, subsequently broken raggedly at both ends and bearing deep surface chips. The composite material appears glittering and sandy in its texture, is almost certainly artificially formed to this shape, and may also have been absorbent if treated with oil. These are all features suggesting a recent date. Suggested date: Modern, 1925-1975 Length: 105mm, Diameter: 37.6mm, Weight: 192.27gms
Created on: Tuesday 17th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 17th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Ravendale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-33CDD7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained compacted Sandstone whetstone, as kindly identified by the finder. A narrow boat-shaped fragment of stone, rubbed smooth and flat on its opposed broader faces, and to a lesser extent by wear which has left its narrower sides lightly rounded. Broken at both ends, the larger break probably being recent. The use of varied sharpening stones is characteristic of the period between the Roman-era Iron Age and the Middle Saxon period. Suggested date: Unknown, 43-850 Length: 87.8mm, Width: 35.1mm, Thickness: 12.7mm, Weight: 59.50gms
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-33C309
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale Limestone possible weight fragment, as kindly suggested by the finder. A small pebble with a deep [3mm] groove at one end, and a flattened area aligned with this. The groove may initially have served as a tying notch. Its continuation is truncated by another flat and smoothed surface. The stone is probably too soft to have served as a plough pebble, but some form of reuse as a rubber or polisher may have produced the flat surface as it now appears. The exploitation of erratic pebbles as sharpeners or rubbers is particularly common between later Prehistory and the end of the Early…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C6D5DC
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained compacted Sandstone whetstone fragment. A rectangular-section bar hone fragment, tapered towards a slightly worn wedge shape at one end, broken at the other. One of the broader flat sides is lightly dished by wear and all four sides are smoothed with a reasonably sharp aris where each side meets its neighbour. The simple form and material may together point to a Roman or Anglo-Saxon date, as Scandinavian stones would later come to dominate the medieval market for sharpening stones. This reporter has suggested a broad division between personal hones, which might be worn at…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C6CA91
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale limestone spindle whorl. A discoid cylindrical form with rounded edges, formerly to be described as bun-shaped, though this term is now decried for its imprecision, cf. Walton Rogers form B. A drilled aperture of diameter 9.4mm is set centrally. Abraded. The mass would make this suitable to spin a fine yarn. The spindle-hole size may indicate an Anglo-Scandinavian rather than an earlier date. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1000 Diameter: 33.1mm, Thickness: 14.7mm, Weight: 20.72gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FEC0CD
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Compacted Sandstone water rolled cobble, probable whetstone; a sparkling surface indicates the presence of mica or other abrasive constituents in a sandy matrix, and hence suitability as a sharpening stone. This large sub-triangular flat-sided stone has one large flat surface smoothed and dished by wear. Other surfaces are unmodified, though scratches from plough strike appear on all. The use of improvised hones is characteristic of a long period from later Prehistory to the Viking Age. A rock of this size might be used to sharpen large tools such as a scythe or spade iron. It may hav…
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Ravendale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-804A3E
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-green fine grained compact Sandstone, possible whetstone fragment, as kindly suggested by the finder. A small and probably water-rolled pebble of sub-rectangular section, possibly dished by wear on one of its wider flat faces, but with no other trace of utilisation. Rounded, probably naturally, at one end, and broken at the other; subsequently abraded. This may be a small or personal hone improvised from a chance discovery from glacial Drift. The use of varied improvised hones, rubbing stones and smoothers was common from later Prehistory to the Middle Saxon period. Suggested dat…
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-800F98
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained compact grey possibly Sandstone with occasional sparkling flecks on its sides; whetstone, as kindly identified by the finder. The material has a superficial resemblance to the volcanic Greenstone used to make Neolithic group 6 axes, and specialist examination of the broken surface might determine whether such an axe may have been reworked and reused in this case. At all events, this is now a straight-sided bar-shaped hone of rectangular section, rounded at one end and broken at the other. All flat surfaces are lightly dished by wear towards the centre of the object; a fac…
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4605B6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone weight. Bright white limestone, possibly magnesian limestone outcropping near Tadcaster, Doncaster etc. Yorkshire. Now of sub-ovoid form, possibly due to a large chip along one side incurred in antiquity. The weight is flat-sided and has an hourglass-shaped aperture of 55-34mm diameter drilled from both sides. The finder kindly notes a carved feature on one flat side. This may be formed as a simple cross with the ends of two adjacent arms bent at right angles in the manner of a swastika, or, if one arm is discounted for its relative shallowness, as a letter Y or H [see inset ill…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9019C2
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chalk spindle whorl. Crudely knife cut cylindrical whorl with a central waisted aperture drilled from both sides to a maximum diameter of 14mm, and at its narrowest circa 10mm. An incised interlace pattern is carried over one face, with some lines carried over onto the outer edge. Linear scratches, some intersecting though appearing fresher than the cuts defining the interlace, and less structured in their pattern, appear on the other side of the whorl, along with spalling of that face. The finder notes Viking Age finds from the vicinity, and both form and decoration are consistent wi…
Created on: Tuesday 7th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-02CF15
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey micaceous Mudstone possible hone fragment. Fragment from a possible hone; a needle or point sharpening groove of width 3mm runs along the one unbroken edge. The use of such stone, perhaps derived from glacial Drift, may argue an early date and local manufacture. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410. Length:49.6mm, Width: 20.2mm, Thickness: 13.3mm, Weight: 15.10gms.
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A780B0
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Buff Coloured medium compacted Sandstone (non-specialist identification by MF). Whetstone. Tapered hone of square section, carefully shaped and smoothed by use on all four sides, chipped at its narrow end and broken at the other. Either point-sharpening grooves or, more likely, post-depositional damage, occurs on one flat face; one aris also bears damage post-dating use of the object. The rectangular form is common for Roman hones, but continued in use - as perhaps did some of the same hones - into the Anglo-Saxon period. At this later period, large and carefully shaped hones,…
Created on: Wednesday 10th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM6072
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Saxon limestone spindle whorl, very roughly made with incised line decoration.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2001
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HUMBERSIDE STALLINGBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.