Record ID: SUR-664681
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A subrectangular copper alloy plate from a composite medieval strap end, 54.1mm in length. The front end tapers to a blunt point. The rear end has bifurcating projections, each drilled for and retaining a rivet. The front of the plate is decorated with intertwining arcs of rocker-arm zig-zag decoration. The reverse of the plate is undecorated and retains traces of the (now lost) spacer plate around the edge.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-6636B8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper-alloy nummus of Constans dating to the period AD 347 - 348 (Reece period 17). VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN reverse type depicting two Victories holding wreaths, standing facing each other. Mint of Trier. RIC VIII Treveri 195 Diameter: 15.9 mm  Weight: 1.07 g
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-662ECA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast asymmetrical sub-rectangular single looped buckle frame, with one rounded end and one with angled corners, of flat-backed triangular section overall. A simple if uncommon form not featured by Whitehead (1996). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700 Length: 29.9mm, Height: 21.8mm, Thickness: 3.8mm, Weight: 5.63gms
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6608F1
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt pilgrim badge. A circular plate bearing the framed image of the Virgin and Child, the Virgin crowned and with sceptre and the Child haloed, viewed against a cross-hatched ground within a cabled inner border, a gutter, and an outer frame which is externally lined. A probably integrally cast D-section bar passes behind the image and across its flat plain back and is broken at the site of a sharp curve. Gilded overall, chipped. The finder kindly offers the suggestion that the object was a pendant, but the image is designed to be viewed when the bar is horizontal. This feature …
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-66056E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper-alloy nummus of the Theodora, dating to c. AD 337 - 340. (Reece Period 17) PIETAS ROMANA, reverse type shows Pietas, draped, standing front, head right, carrying an infant at her breast in right hand. Mint of Trier. Diameter: 14.8 mm Weight: 1.36 g
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-65E80A
Object type: FOB
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold and glass fob seal, as kindly identified by the finder. A thin casing of reddish gold with a billeted band passing round three sides to afford grip and with a billeted frame for a flat polished opaque black glass gem engraved with the image of a snake passing left through long grass, with the reversed legend above: BEWARE. The base of the casing is dented. Richard Hudson kindly and promptly comments as follows: 'I was just looking through the Finds Database and came across the fob NLM-65E80A. It has been described as depicting a snail in the grass but I’d suggest that th…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-65D4E4
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily worn post-medieval square copper-alloy coin weight. It has a barely perceptible stamped image, probably of a hand, within a circular beaded border on one face but no surviving trace of a design on the other. The hand signifies Antwerp as the issuing town. The metal is patinated pale reddish-brown overlain with patches of pale to mid-green. Late 16th to mid-17th century. Length: 15.1mm. Width 14.7mm. Thickness: 2.0mm. Weight. 2.3g 
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-65C698
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Voided long cross cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272), probably Class 5a issue of 1250-1256, possibly moneyer Willem at Canterbury mint Obverse description: bust lost, inner circle. Obverse inscription: (--)RICVS RE(--) Reverse description: voided long cross, three pellets in each angle. Reverse inscription: WIL/--/--)/AN Diameter: 18.5mm, Weight: 0.60gms, die axis; probably 6
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-65BD15
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper alloy nummus of Constantine I dating to the period AD 307 - 318 (Reece Period 15). SOLI INVICTO COMITI reverse type depicting Sol standing left with globe. Mint of Trier.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-65A7F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), dated 1595 so Sixth issue, London mint. Obverse description: bust left, rose behind head. Obverse inscription: [---]ET.HIB.REGINA Reverse description: Shield of Arms, long cross, date over shield: 15 95 Reverse inscription: POSVI/[--]AD/IVTORE/M’ [--] Diameter: 26mm, Weight: 2.81gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-6598C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely corroded and incomplete Roman copper alloy nummus of the House of Valentinian, dating to AD 364-378 (Reece Period 19). [GLORIA ROMANORVM] reverse type depicting the emperor dragging a captive. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-6586E2
Object type: POWDER FLASK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead powder flask cap. A small cylindrical vessel with thickened rim, now squashed closed. A small loop is flattened against the lower side, for strung attachment to the flask. A vertical strengthening rib appears on one side of the lid, with a mould line opposite. Patinated. The smaller of two similar objects presented together. This is the cap from a powder flask. A powder flask might be used singly by a sportsman or might be carried on a bandolier as one of the ‘twelve apostles’ to equip a musketeer. It held a single measured charge. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-658148
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy coin weight for a Scottish thistle crown of James I (revalued). Square and biface, obverse I R flanking a thistle, reverse IIII [S] / 4D ½, both within a circular beaded border. Cf. Withers and Withers (1995) p15. A.D. 1603-25. Length: 12.9mm. Width 12.4mm. Thickness: 1.9mm. Weight. 1.6g   
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-657F4F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily corroded copper alloy Rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649), Type 2 with single arched crown dating to 1636-1644. Unclear initial mark. As North (1991), p 165, number 2291.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-6568E9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn silver Medieval penny, possibly of Edward IV, first or second reign, c. 1465 to 1476. York mint, unclear type, probably local dies or an imitation and possibly issued under Archbishop George Neville.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-656813
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible mount fragment. A pressed metal openwork plate in the form of a crescentic or lyre-shaped curl surmounted by a pellet at either rounded and expanded end – perhaps representing thistle heads - and with a small vertical leaf motif between them. Textured on one side but gilded on both. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Width: 18mm, Height: 15.5mm, Thickness: 1.1mm, Weight: 0.97gms
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-6544DE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A leg from a cooking vessel, probably a small cauldron of late medieval to post medieval date. The leg has been broken from the body of the vessel and is triangular in shape with hexagonal cross section, tapering to a small flat foot. The surface appears to be heavily fire damaged, perhaps suggesting that the fragment was in the process of being melted down for recycling.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-651E74
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a leg from a small post Medieval cast copper alloy cauldron or skillet, with a triangular cross-section which has a pronounced midrib and flat reverse. Circa 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-650C0A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast double looped or spectacle buckle with a small knop at either end of a central narrowed strap bar. A round cast buckle plate of thickness 1.4mm with a narrower sub-triangular back part is folded round the strap bar and was secured on the strap [lost] by three domed rivets of head diameter 2.6mm with pointed ends. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Length (as found): 26.9mm, Height: 17.6mm, Thickness (frame): 2.3mm, Weight: 4.94gms
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-64F9A7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rounded foot from a small post Medieval cast copper alloy cauldron or skillet, with a triangular cross-section and an outer surface formed of five convex toes with a rounded collar above. The reverse is flat. Circa 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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