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-D6C056
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead unidentified object fragment. A cast square-section bar, raggedly broken at either end, abraded, patinated and slightly bent. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1900 Length: 33.6mm, Width: 8.8mm, Thickness: 7.4mm, Weight: 16.47gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

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-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-F279A2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Moulded part of what should be a two part fastener, remains of solder on back, tiny trace of gilding. suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800 Lerngth: 44.5mm, Width: 10.7mm, Thickness: 6.6mm, Weight: 4.37gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-EEC763
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Database accompanying source record comments: 'Large hook with decorative lines sawn into it on both sides. No idea what it is, but another archaeologist has seen another one, so there you go!'. Suggested date: possibly Post-Medieval, 1500-1800 Length: 53.6mm, Width: 51.7mm, Thickness: 3.1mm, Weight: 13.52gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9C8579
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Ae turned conical object, with apical hole, hollow. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1800 Height: 15.6mm, Diameter: 18.6mm, Weight: 11.03gms
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-5AF61D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy object of Roman or medieval date. The object is an incomplete shank of octagonal section. There section is essentially a square with a narrow facet at each corner. File marks are visible along all sides, and the object has a dark brown patina. One end is broken while the other terminates with two prongs. The prongs are curved and appear to be a modification of an object that once served a different purpose. The object seems too thick to be a needle or bodkin. The prongs are suggestive of a nail cleaner, but again the spacing between the prongs seems to wide f…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caistor area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B38AE8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver unidentified object fragment. A scrap of thin beaten silver with the gilt letter Y inlaid on its display side, and with a trapezoid border and offset continuation on its reverse. The upper edge [as viewed] may be fringed in decorative fashion. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 14.5mm, Width: 12.5mm, Thickness: 1.1mm, Weight: 0.44gms
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E85D71
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. Cast loop with opposed oval-ended lobes, of a crisp and probably die-stamped section overall, and with a rivet with expanded head and shank length 5.4mm passing through one of the lobes. Possibly distorted, possibly through mechanical failure. Staining on the side where the rivet head projects may indicate a thin lost element formerly set flush with this surface. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800 Length: 23.9mm, Width: 15.2mm, Thickness (clear of rivet): 2.9mm, Weight: 3.65gms
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby Cross', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-76149E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver unidentified object fragment. A chip from a silver disc with turned-over edge, deeply scored and with either an irregular edge or broken across a small hole, abraded, possibly part-melted. The finder kindly suggests this may be a coin fragment, for which this reporter discerns no evidence other than its possibly circular form. Suggested date: Unknown, Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1200-1900 Width: 10.7mm, Weight: 0.17gms
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Willingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-A3748A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of hollow cast copper alloy, possibly a miscast item of possible Bronze Age date. The object is rectangular in plan and appears to have been a hollow rectangle in section. Only one complete side and two incomplete sides survive. The object flares gently along its length, and also thickens to a triangular section at the widest end. The interior is covered with black soot and charcoal deposits much like is often seen on late medieval and post-medieval cooking pot legs. However, the exterior is smooth and has patches of mid brown patina as is commonly encountered on copper alloy …
Created on: Monday 14th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BAA288
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sheathing an iron core, unidentified object fragment. Source record suggests Late Bronze Age to Late Iron Age date; the accompanying database gives this as Late Iron Agel. Suggested date: Late Iron Age 100BC-AD100. Length: 41.2mm, Width: 30.9mm, Thickness: 8.6mm, Weight: 21.69gms
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A36ECC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron unidentified object fragment. A cast concavo-convex conical object, with an indication of a square feature, perhaps lost from this site, and with a conical hollow 23mm deepwithin. Chipped at top and bottom. The finder kindly notes this comes from an area of Roman finds. However, Dr Kevin Leahy considers almost all cast iron objects are likely to date to the later medieval or early post-medieval periods at the earliest. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1900 Diameter: 43.2mm, Height: 37mm, Weight: 156.12gms
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-698B5F
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy unidentified object. A fragment from a short cylindrical object of stepped construction with a bevelled edge at either end and with a wall thickness of 1.9mm. The overall diameter of the object when complete was probably 30mm or one pre-metric inch. The finished edges at either end suggest its complete extent is preserved by this fragment, while the grey tint of metal points to its relatively recent date. An internal deposit may hint at a connection to water supply. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1750-1950 Length: 28.9mm, Width (as found): 20.4mm, Thickness (…
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby Cross', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-D785A8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete unidentified lead object of uncertain date and function, possibly post medieval or later in date (1500-1750AD). The object is sub rectangular in plan and section.  Each of the long face of the object is decorated with a series of grooves or cut marks – each side is different.  On one face there is a line running the length of the object that suggests a fold, perhaps indicating how the object was original formed.  Neither end of the object is decorated. Measurements:  Length. 47.1mm; width: 10.3mm; thickness: 10.6mm; weight: 45.47g
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Kyme', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-545A6D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green copper alloy object, retaining one rivet. Sub-annular form; accompanying database suggests this may be from machinery. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 35.8mm, Width: 26.1mm, Thickness: 4.7mm, Weight: 6.88gms
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-3F82BB
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green copper alloy unidentified object. Small object in the shape of a male bearded head with wide open mouth. Perforation that goes from the mouth to a hole in the back of the head, but avoids the sideways slot [ from accompanying database; the source record suggests the two apertures are joined]. Suggested date: Medieval, 1100-1200 Height: 25.9mm, Width: 19.8mm, Thickness: 18.8mm, Weight: 25.28gms
Created on: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BFA524
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Light brown lead unidentified object. Disc with criss-cross shield motif, also described as a circular lead plaque with cross hatched shield shaped centre. Source record is amended to describe this as a post-medieval token, though the cited weight is excessive for this usage. The accompanying database identifies this as a late medieval brooch or badge. Suggested date: Unknown, Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1350-1700 Length: 27.3mm, Width: 26.1mm, Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 6.30gms
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-8660E1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A small billet or partly melted copper alloy, flat on one side and probably convex on the other and perhaps originally straight sided. The flat side seems to have been lowermost when the object was exposed to the intense heat which has partly melted it. Possibly a fragment of a blade. Associated with a group of other copper alloy metalworking waste, and perhaps part of a recycled item. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1750 Length: 35.6mm, Width: 21.1mm, Thickness: 5.6mm, Weight: 9.65gms
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swallow', grid reference and parish protected.