Record ID: NLM-E6E0CA
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron and copper alloy penknife fragment. Two iron blades and possibly another implement for a folding knife, retained between fragmentary flat plain copper alloy side plates of thickness 0.7mm by long rivets – whether one or two is now uncertain. A flat oval plate with faint traces of cross-hatching marks the end of the knife handle. Side plates of bone or ivory would have been secured outside the copper plates which remain and would have butted up to the end plate. The object has been exploded by the expansion of its corroding iron blades. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-190…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4EE71A
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penknife fragment. Cast medial plate and one end, from a folding pocketknife. The plano-convex section terminal is vertically grooved and the outer side of the plate rebated to receive a separate bone or ivory side plate for the handle [now lost]. A rivet lies at the outer end. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 36.6mm, Height: 13.0mm, Thickness (at terminal): 2.5mm, Weight: 3.69gms
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-F9E628
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penknife fragment. Cast plano-convex section handle side plate fragment with incised lines at one end, broken at the other. The section view shows a thin inner plate flush with the handle itself. The function is betrayed by rust staining from the blades of a folding knife against the back of the inner plate. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 26mm, Width: 10.7mm, Thickness: 2.4mm, Weight: 3.50gms
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-3B130C
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron penknife fragment. A pair of copper alloy side fragments or end plates with U-shaped terminals confines a mass of ferrous corrosion incorporating a pair of blade fragments and an intervening plate. A rivet appears at the end of each plate and one bears a pair of incised grooves. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 27mm, Height/Width: 16.7mm, Thickness (overall): 13.1mm, Weight: 12.34gms
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Halton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-389770
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Modern copper alloy and mother-of-pearl penknife, c.AD 1850-1900. Rounded end from a penknife retaining a sheet metal plate [thickness 0.3mm] formerly separating its folding blades, and retaining a scrap of a mother-of-pearl side plate on one side. A single metal rivet passes though the pearl near the terminal, holding it to the copper alloy plate fragment. The terminal is undecorated.
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FE72EE
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible penknife fragment. Cast trapezoid side plate, here taken to be from a handled folding knife of composite construction, broken at its wider end, of plano-convex section with a pattern of moulded curls crowded onto its convex display side. These would confer grip. Abraded. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 22.3mm, Width: 15.9mm, Thickness: 3.6mm, Weight: 5.06gms
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Springthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-06FCBA
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible penknife fragment. Cast trapezoid plate retaining traces of white metal plating on both sides; possibly broken across a fixing hole. Here suggested to be the end of a plate separating the blades of a small folding knife. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 19mm, Width: 11.6mm, Thickness: 1.8mm, Weight: 1.92gms
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-236FD3
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable penknife fragment. A curved concavo-convex terminal and its narrow continuation – a counterpart is lost – with a drilled fixing hole and internal rust staining at one end. Initially deemed to be from machinery; the form and iron staining - from a blade or blades - suggest the identification now advanced. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950 Length: 48mm, Width: 27.6mm, Thickness: 6.3mm, Weight: 10.04gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scawby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AF9F85
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible copper alloy penknife fragment. A small flat cast trapezoid strip broken from one end of a larger object, with a square-headed rivet projecting from one side, rust-stained on the other. These characteristics might qualify this as a side plate or middle plate [to separate a blade from its neighbour] from a small penknife. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 17.9mm, Width: 10.1mm, Thickness (plate clear of rust): 0.7mm, Weight: 0.89gms
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ryther', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-18DE93
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron probable penknife fragment. A pair of oval-ended copper alloy end-plates c.1.8mm thick bearing faint traces of vertically incised ornament and the stub of an iron blade of thickness 3mm held between them. The finder kindly suggests this to be a domestic knife pommel while this reporter would see a small folding knife or penknife with metal ends and side plates of a different material [now lost]. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 10.1mm, Height: 10.5mm, Thickness (overall): 5.9mm, Weight: 1.90gms
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ryther', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1D19B1
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable penknife fragment. Cast oval-ended straight-sided side plate from a small folding knife, with a thin inner plate extending for most of its length. A fixing point is suggested by a drilled hole of diameter 1.8mm towards the curved outer end; the straight inner end bears three narrow and one broad vertical grooves. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 25mm, Height: 8.8mm, Thickness: 1.7mm, Weight: 1.98gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-889F2F
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penknife fragment. Cast side plate fragment from a penknife, with a rounded end with drilled hole of diameter 2.7mm, and with stamped letters T Y probably set centrally; the object is now broken beyond this point. The back is hollow to retain the blade or blades of a small folding knife. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1850 Length: 47.5mm, Width: 17.0mm, Thickness (at end): 2.9mm, Weight: 7.52gms
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-098E93
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and mother-of-pearl penknife fragment. Rounded end from a penknife retaining a sheet metal plate [thickness 0.3mm] formerly separating its folding blades, and retaining a scrap of a mother-of-pearl side plate on one side. A white metal rivet passes though the terminal, with another retaining the side plate fragment. The terminal is vertically grooved on either side. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 24.3mm, Width: 10.9mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 2.11gms
Created on: Monday 21st December 2020
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A27B9A
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron penknife fragment. Part of one side plate with a rounded end and chevron-textured display side, with a rivet hole of diameter 2.4mm close to its end, and an adhering part of a steel blade which is rusted to it. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850 Length: 25.9mm, Width: 10.6mm, Thickness (overall): 3.8mm, Weight: 2.80gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 2020
Last updated: Thursday 17th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FC6B9B
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and steel penknife fragment. A pair of long oval-ended side plates of thickness 0.6mm, each with a shallow curved notch in its upper edge, formerly attached to each other [now] by a single rivet, and retaining tensile strength. A steel blade and the base of another remain between the plates. The plates bear a lightly textured surface and a narrow oval panel on one side, and possibly lettering at one end on the other, all probably being die-stamped details. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1940 Length: 81.3mm, Height: 13.2mm, Thickness (as found): 5mm, Weight: 13.63gms
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 30th November 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-B48A41
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast copper alloy artefact, probably a side plate from the handle of a Post Medieval or Modern folding knife or penknife dating from about AD 1800 - 1950. It is trapezoidal in shape, gradually widening from a rounded end to a break. It is a flattened semicircle in cross-section. On the front of the rounded end is a wide transverse groove showing signs of iron corrosion. The rear face has a raised edge leaving the reverse concave, except at the rounded end which is solid. There are the remains of an iron rivet set off centre in the solid area which aligns with the corros…
Created on: Monday 7th October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-B2C080
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kirklees
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy handle plate from a scale tang penknife or knife of probably Post Medieval to Modern date, about AD 1800 - 1950. The plate is sub-rectangular, with one rounded end and one slightly concave end. It is D shaped in cross-section, the outer face being convex and the reverse being flat where it was riveted to the flat tang of the handle. It is decorated with four transverse ribs, with concave areas between them. There is an iron rivet through the rounded end of the plate. Compare NLM-78BBA5. The knife fragment is 22.7mm long, the width is 15.7mm and it is 3.9mm thick. 4.75g.…
Created on: Monday 7th October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-78BBA5
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penknife fragment. U-shaped end plate from one side of the handle of a folding knife, with a groove at its inner end flanked by ridges, and with a steel rivet of diameter 1.7mm off-centre towards the outer end. Rust staining and spots on the back suggest the knife may have been lost in assembled form, retaining its steel blade/s [now lost]. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 22.4mm, Height: 15.5mm, Thickness: 2.7mm, Weight: 4.30gms
Created on: Thursday 29th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 29th August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-756DD6
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy, iron and bone penknife fragment. A die-stamped side-plate with one rounded end and one straight end, from a folding penknife with a scrap of an internal iron fitting attached on the inner side along with rust staining from the blade [lost]; and a scrap of an osseous handle plate on the outer, between flanged edges at right angles to the plate. The bone handle was secured by cylindrical rivet of diameter 1.7mm and length c.2mm. Bent and broken in two pieces. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 77mm, Width: 13.8mm, Thickness (plate only): 0.8mm, Weight: 8.52gms
Created on: Monday 17th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-79AB03
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penknife fragment. A terminal from a die-stamped plate probably set within or between the blades of a small folding knife, incorporating a sub-rectangular end with vertically incised linear decoration. One side of the plate is heavily rust stained, suggesting a blade lay flush against this surface and that the object has fragmented after its initial loss or deposition. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 27.1mm, Height: 11.2mm, Thickness: 2.1mm, Weight: 2.22gms
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.