Record ID: PUBLIC-905BCB
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 A probably Post-Medieval cast lead bi-face, pierced token of Powell Type 4/14 (Fleurs / Crosses), probably dating to c.1500-1800. Circular and flat with a piercing at 7 o'clock to the obverse, that depicts a fleur-de-lis. The reverse depicts a straight cross, with the arms encircling, forming circles in each quarter. The surface displays a whitish grey colour. Diameter 18.2mm, thickness 1.5mm, weight 3.9g. Broadly similar examples at: CAM-1FB82B, PUBLIC-C250C2 and SUR-BCB6DA.
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-86629D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post Medieval cast lead uniface token of Powell type 14 dating c. AD 1400-1700. The token is disc-shape with worn tabs projecting from opposing edges and a flat reverse. The front face has a cast  raised cross design with four circular pellets - one in each angle - within a slightly raised, very worn, boarder. The patina is light grey. The token measures 18.7mm in length, 14.2mm in width and 2.5mm in thickness. It weighs 3 grams.
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-861F54
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead octagonal 153.1g (5.4 oz) weight of uncertain age, but possibly dating to the Medieval period. Sub-octagonal in plan, slightly bevelled sides to a domed central body. The face has a deeply moulded voided cross with a single pellet in each quarter and the remains of an iron suspension loop in the centre. The reverse is plain and slightly concave / dished, with the ends of the iron suspension loop wire showing as oxidised points. The surface displays a light grey colour. Diameter 43.5mm, height 17.4mm, weight 153.1g. Broadly similar examples on this database at: …
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-73A1E7
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead ampulla that has a circular chamber and long rectangular neck, flanking the neck are two angled handles. The chamber is decorated with raised detailing consisting of, on the obverse, a raised design of a compass-drawn flower of four large pointed petals and four small petals in each angle with details also in relief. The reverse depicts a crown, the lining of which is hatched. The object has a light grey patina.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-734A14
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy biconical spindle whorl of Medieval to Post Medieval date that is circular in plan with a large central hole. Both sides are decorated with a series of radiating lines.  
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2024
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Record ID: NCL-6206E2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified lead artefact of unknown date.  Cast in one piece, the artefact comprises a solid sub-circular flattened sphere with integral casting sprue with a flared end. The artefact has a central linear casting seam, and appears to have been miscast resulting in the misalignment of both hemispheres.  Possibly this artefact is an unfinished attempt at casting a weight, shot or other ingot.  Quantity: 1 Length: 44.52 mm Width: 36.03 mm Thickness: 23.39 mm Weight: 154 g
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-5D6CED
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight. Cast heater-shield-shaped plate with an indistinct symmetrical motif on its display side, possibly a lis or a crowned motif; patinated. The finder kindly suggests an identification as a pilgrim badge. The quasi-heraldic form, and perhaps the charge as well were it clearer, might both associate this with the 14th-century English vogue for heraldic motifs, which might be worn or carried by those with no noble connection or pretension. There is no apparent means of attachment. The mass equates to about one half of an averdepois ounce, thus respecting a system introdu…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walesby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5D1F37
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast conical weight with a pinched apex with drilled hole for suspension, flat-based, patinated. A flat base would permit use as a standing weight in a scale pan. The approximate mass of this object recurs amongst lead weights of other forms from medieval London; its correspondence with the values of early medieval weights is less exact than would normally be deemed significant by this reporter, while the finder kindly suggests a Roman date and a function as a steelyard poise. The apical hole could also permit use as a line weight, also a probably medieval usage. Suggested…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-5CD5D6
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead probable spindle whorl. Cast cylindrical whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 9mm, Walton Rogers form B. Eight deep symmetrically distributed cuts radiate from the hole on the lower side [as cast – perhaps the upper side as used]. Though tidy enough to be deemed decoration, such features are actually rare on whorls of this simple form, and so many such cuts are perhaps an unparalleled feature. They might serve as tying notches, though a primary use as a whorl or a secondary use as a fishing line would usually require only one tying notch. Patinated. The spindle …
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-4C469F
Object type: PHALLIC OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead/lead alloy phallus of uncertain date. The object is in the form of a phallus and is naturalistically rendered with an erect shaft and a glans. The shaft is broadly sub-rectangular in plan with a broadly square cross-section with rounded corners and sides; the base end is domed. At the opposing end of the phallus shaft is a defined head that presents a crudely incised traverse groove through the tip. The object has a white/cream patina. Dimensions: Length 38.62mm; width: 18.19mm; thickness: 15.54mm and weight: 54.83g Similar phallic objects have been conside…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-4C21EE
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy spindle whorl of Early-Medieval to Medieval date, c.AD 700 - 1200. Walton Rogers Form B. The spindle whorl is circular with two flat faces, flat sides and a central perforation running through it. The object is undecorated. The metal has a light brown patina and is worn. The spindle whorl is 29.75mm in diameter, 9.36mm thick and weighs 47.65g. The perforation is 10.19mm in diameter suggesting an Early-Medieval to Medieval date (Walton Rogers, 1997, p.1731). It also fits into Walton Rogers Form B2 which dates to AD 700-1200 (Walton Rogers…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-4C0A4C
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead spindle whorl of possible Early-Medieval to medieval date, c.AD 800 - 1100. Walton Rogers Form A2. The spindle whorl is circular in plan and rectangular in cross section, perforation running through it. The upper the upper surface is slightly domed, whereas the lower is flat. The spindle whorl has no decoration. Dimensions: Diameter 28.0mm, Thickness 7.3mm, Weight 27.24g. The metal has a cream patina and is worn. It fits into Walton Rogers Form A2, which dates to AD 800 – 1100 (Walton Rogers, 1997, p.1738). Spindle whorls can be hard t…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-4BF606
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead spindle whorl of possible Early-Medieval to medieval date, c.AD 800 - 1100. Walton Rogers Form A2. The spindle whorl is circular in plan and rectangular in cross section, perforation running through it. The upper the upper surface is slightly domed, whereas the lower is flat. The spindle whorl has no decoration. Dimensions: Diameter 27.6mm, Thickness 6.9mm, Weight 28.50g. The metal has a cream patina and is worn. It fits into Walton Rogers Form A2, which dates to AD 800 – 1100 (Walton Rogers, 1997, p.1738). Spindle whorls can be hard t…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4A85CB
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead trade weight, uniface with a large crowned IR puncheon centrally and an uncertain punch mark above it. The weight of 24.68g suggests that this is somewhat underweight for an ounce. Period of James I, 1603-25.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-4A1B6C
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pencil. Cast round-section rod with a moulded blunt point at one end, rounded at the other. Lightly patinated. The good condition should probably suggest a 19th-century schoolroom use with a writing slate though similar objects were in use from the 13th century onwards, probably ancillary to craft or building works. Suggested date: probably Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 54.2mm, Diameter: 5.2mm, Weight: 10.13gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-48D1C4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pot mend. A large cast plug to mend a hole in a vessel wall of thickness 4mm. The inner side of the plug [as poured] bears a scratched graffito resembling a kite, with a central cross for struts. The finder kindly suggests this may represent a mitred face, though there are no features to suggest eyes, mouth or nose.. Patinated. The neat finish might commend a Roman date. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Length: 40mm, Width: 38.9mm, Thickness: 8.5mm, Weight: 93.25gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton Night Soil Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-464CA9
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An edge-chipped Post Medieval lead bi-face token of Powell type 2/11 (initials / tavern utensils) dating to c.1550-1850. Circular and flat. The obverse depicts the initials I N (or N I) within a pellet formed border. The reverse depicts a tankard within a pellet formed border. The surface displays a grey/buff colour. Diameter 16.1mm, thickness 2.3mm, weight 3.2g. Similar examples on this database at: PUBLIC-5BC928, IOW-F5A44E and SUSS-C29242.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-38B49E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-Medieval lead one-piece button (1600-1750). The domed head is circular in plan and decorated with curved radiating lines. The reverse is flat with a stud in the centre which would have been the shank of the rear loop.
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-36A4BB
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval lead spindle whorl of Walton Rogers form A1 dating from AD 850-1000. It has one flat face and one domed with straight sides forming a median band, and is undecorated.  Form A1 whorls are known from AD 500 - 1000, but the size of the central hole makes a late Saxon date more likely.  Thickness: 6.78mm Weight: 23g Diameter: 27.81mm Diameter of central aperture: 9.77mm
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-363318
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub-triangular, cast lead perforated artefact, probably a weight, dating from the Post Medieval period, AD 1600 - 1900. It is flat in profile, and sub-triangular in plan, with curved sides and rounded corners. The edges are bevelled. The reverse is pitted, perhaps from the casting process. The narrow end is perforated with an irregular hole of 3-5mm diameter. The weight is 41.9mm long, 23.9mm wide and 5.9mm thick. It  weighs 36.4g. The mass does not obviously fit into standard units of measurement, but the weight may have been used to add mass, such as a line or net weight.
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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