Record ID: NLM-9F1D4E
Object type: TANK
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead tank fragment. A substantial offcut from the wall of a cylindrical lead tank or vessel, with a V-shaped chamfered rim with a broad [9.8mm] cabled moulding projecting from its outer side, passing 11.5-13mm below the top of the rim. The fragment bears two long cut edges, one of which is angled to converge with the other at the lower end. If the outer cordon were horizontal, this would imply the reduction of the vessel wall in diagonal or angled strips. On what is taken as the inner side, two neatly converging V-profile strokes of height 35mm might represent part of an incised Chi R…
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-95F01A
Object type: TANK
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete panel of a decorated Roman lead tank or font with a phallic motif. The tank measures c. 1005mm in length and 300mm in height. The panel was discovered rolled and folded and has subsequently been unfolded by the finder. The surviving unrolled section consists of one incomplete side formed of three fragments: Fragment A, measuring 500mm in length and 300mm in height, Fragment B, measuring 150mm in length and 283mm in height and Fragment C measuring 300mm in length and 290mm in height. All fragments are decorated with applied lead pleated bands: Two parallel horizontal p…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 25th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preshute', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D21663
Object type: TANK
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Roman circular based decorated lead tank, found cut into pieces and folded into a hole with a lead spout, and excavated professionally. The excavation The full excavation report, (Graham 2018), including drawings of the pieces in situ, is available from the Somerset Historic Environment Record. Excavation revealed that the hole appears to have been open for very little time suggesting it was dug for this deposition and refilled rapidly. The tank Form The tank was formed of a thicker base sheet and thinner sides formed of two sheets. It appears to have had a flat …
Created on: Monday 4th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trudoxhill CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-713036
Object type: TANK
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
White metal Fragment of sheet metal, possibly aluminium from a tank wall. The finder ascribes this object to the debris cloud generated by the late 20th-century explosion of the Nypro facility at Flixborough. Suggested date: Modern, 1960-1980. Length: 63mm, Thickness: 1.3mm, Weight: 11.50gms.
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 30th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby cum Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E8F806
Object type: TANK
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of a Roman lead font. The panels are both flat roughly rectangular panels, clearly from the same original tank, which fit together at the rim and again towards the bottom. Both panels have a slightly expanded rim decorated with a row of incised chevrons, and one of the panels has a moulded vertical double-cable motif. The upper edges of the rims of the panels show a series of linear marks made by a chisel as the initial strikes to split the tank were made from above. Along the inside edges of the panels are a number of complete chisel marks and sides of the panels consis…
Created on: Thursday 14th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ludford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NLM6361
Object type: TANK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
fragment of lead possibly from a water tank. Raised floral decoration with vines and leaves on face, flat on back.
Created on: Friday 30th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BINBROOK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NLM6222
Object type: TANK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
five holes punched on the left side, a thick band running down the middle either for extra support or decoration, remains of two iron nails within the thick band.
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.