Record ID: NLM-511B49
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle fitting. Cast cheekpiece comprising a pair of rhomboid loops connected by an integrally cast D-section bar with a central boss standing proud from its convex side. A smaller boss or pellet is moulded on each of the outer angles of each of the loops. The metal has a reddish tint often associated with Anglo-Scandinavian material. One loop is partly lost. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1100 Length: 57.7mm, Width: 21.8mm, Thickness (at central boss): 9.5mm, Weight: 14.28gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D5540A
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible bridle fitting fragment. A part of a cast and probably oval loop, separated by a bulbous moulding from a constricted round-section bar across which it is broken. Fiercely abraded. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1100 Length: 30.9mm, Width: 23.8mm, Thickness: 8.2mm, Weight: 12.60gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-38ECC4
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle firtting fragment. Fragment of a heavy cheek piece with large central knop. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000 Height: 43.8mm, Width: 41mm, Thickness: 19.8mm
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B5CEDB
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible bridle fitting fragment. Fishtail-shaped fragment with incised line decoration. Looks a little like the fragment of a Viking cheek piece. Very uncertain. Suggested date: possibly Early Medieval, 850-1100 Height: 35.2mm, Width: 17.1mm, Thickness: 2.5mm, Weight: 5.98gms
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-401BB5
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle fitting fragment, red-purple tint, corroded. Large fragment of a viking cheek piece, corroded. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1050 Length: 71.4mm, Width: 26.6mm, Thickness: 6.5mm, Weight: 25.63gms
Created on: Monday 9th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-3C766C
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle fitting fragment. Fragment of a typical Viking cheek piece, corroded. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1100 Length: 60.5mm, Width: 11.2mm, Thickness: 10mm, Weight: 15.88gms
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-966FEC
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible bridle fitting fragment. Cast plate with projecting integrally cast loop of 11mm diameter and with curved outer edges; a drilled hole at a trefoil end is probably a fixing point; broken at the other end. Fiercely abraded. Suggested date: possibly Early Medieval, 1000-1100 Length: 32.5mm, Width: 27.7mm, Thickness (at loop): 3.2mm, Weight: 6.88gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Faldingworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-08D557
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead medieval to post-medieval bridle mount dating to c.AD 1200-1800 Circular mount with a prominent raised border in a beaded or 'rope-like' style. In the centre is an applied or attached flower, now partially broken, with curvilinear petals and a central circular pistil surrounded by a curvilinear stamen. On the reverse are two iron rivets, now shallow iron bumps. There is a sub-circular dark grey areas between the rivets, possibly the remains of the attachment, piercing from one side to the other. The reverse is undecorated. Mid-greyis…
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Welbourn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6C5F29
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle fitting; the finder kindly suggests usage connected with horse gear. Cast oval loop of lentoid section with a bulbous block within one end of the loop from which project the horns of a ?[now] open smaller loop set at right angles to the other. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1850 Length: 75.3mm, Width: 31.8mm, Thickness (larger loop): 3.7mm, Weight: 39.71gm
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Claxby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B0CE6B
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Reddish-green copper alloy bridle fitting fragment. Fragment of a Viking harness fitting, possibly a cheek piece. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1100 Length: 46mm, Width: 20.4mm, Thickness: 8mm, Weight: 12.91gms
Created on: Friday 9th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-D85362
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle fitting. Small Viking cheek piece, corroded. Plain. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000 Length: 54.5mm, Width: 19mm, Thickness: 7.1mm, Weight: 7.01gms
Created on: Tuesday 12th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-755409
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron probable bridle fitting. A massy tubular copper alloy bar of round section and diameter 11.8mm with a pair of symmetrically disposed expanded flanges which pass all around it, both set c.16mm from its ends. The ends of the copper alloy tube are bevelled or worn to rounded form. Ferrous corrosion and the mass of the object both suggest there is an internal iron rod or stiffener of diameter 8.5mm, which has yet to cause any damage to its external sheathing through its expansion as it rusts. The combination of metals for decorative and functional reasons is typical …
Created on: Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-38721A
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle boss, as kindly identified by Simon Maslin, who comments: 'This is a late medieval to early post med bridle boss. See here for an example: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1012092; These are detailed in FRG Datasheet 54'. Cast circular plate with a broad [diameter 25mm] protruding [by c.12mm] central boss surrounded by a plain field. Three decorative rivets pass through the brooch: two at opposed sites towards its outer edge, and one through the top of the boss. Each rivet has a sub-spherical head of diameter 5mm and a strip shank of w…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thoresway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2B73C6
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bridle fitting, as identified by the finder. Cast D section bar with an oval loop at one end, tapering towards a hook at the other. The stubs of two fixing pins of diameter 3.9mm occur on the flat back close to the loop. Now bent, probably by stress imposed at the hooked end. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900. Length (as found): 88.3mm, Width: 31.3mm, Thickness (bar): 4.4mm, Weight: 40.07gms.
Created on: Monday 7th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-6E6345
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two loops at right angles, fragment of a bit/cheekpiece. Dimensions: height 76.5mm, width 33.8mm, thickness 5.6mm, weight 29.31g.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2018
No spatial data available.

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Record ID: NLM6455
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Raised circular centre surrounded by scroll or wave decoration that is connected to the centre by lines, with pellets in between. Evidence for an iron fitting on the back.
Created on: Wednesday 25th September 2002
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BINBROOK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM6155
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Viking cheek-piece, stylised animals, lines follow the outline.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE UFFINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM4498
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cheek-piece, both ends diamond shaped.
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE SCOTTER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM1110
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The object is formed of two copper-alloy hoops joined by a short, biconcave bar. One of the hoops is incomplete, appearing to be broken. The broken hoop extends into the bar. The bar terminates in a ridge where it meets the complete hoop. Fragment of a mirror handle or possibly of a horse bit.
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 1998
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH KESTEVEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM1066
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Long and narrow, very dainty, with rectangular hole off centre, decorative incised lines, ending in little balls.
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 1998
Last updated: Monday 6th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EAST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.