Record ID: NLM-88953A
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery strainer fragment. Greyware: pale grey sandy fabric, with a very slightly darker core; basal angle from a flat-bottomed wide bodied strainer. The sherd bears signs of six holes of diameter 3.5mm which have been pierced from the inner side while the pot was green or unfired, three of which are complete. The finder kindly suggests the holes were made with a quill. The vessel was of estimated basal diameter c.80mm. The form is especially apt to cheese making, where holes permit liquid whey to escape leaving the firmer curd behind, though it may also have served for brewing or oth…
Created on: Monday 23rd September 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1431BD
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strainer. Cast near semi-circular plate with a raised curving rim of height 6.7mm and with a thinner [4.4mm] flanged straight side. These enclose a thinner [c.2mm] plate with multiple piercings. These are mostly of hour-glass form which may imply drilling from both sides, or possibly drilled finishing of an imperfectly cast object. The curved edge bears incised decoration comprising paired vertical lines and single diagonal lines in alternation. This strongly defined motif may have enhanced the secure lodgement of the object in the spout of a large vessel. The heavy casti…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E95639
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strainer. Cast circular plate with 16 holes of diameter 3mm punched through it from one side, apparently in a series of arcing rows. The heavy character of the casting and most accompanying finds may suggest a Roman date. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410. Diameter: 28.7mm, Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 4.47gms.
Created on: Thursday 7th January 2016
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-02C2C6
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery possible strainer base fragment. Greyware. Abraded sherd retaining twenty round apertures of diameter 3.5mm, probably from a cheese press or related utensil. The holes do not all - so far as may be seen without aggressive investigation - carry through the sherd. This sherd was kindly identified by Helen Fry, Sandra Firth and Hazel West of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410. Weight: 12.30gms
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BC7CF5
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery base sherd. Greyware, fragment from base of a strainer bearing two holes of diameter 3mm. Heavily abraded. Suggested date: Roman, 40-400. Weight: 8.90gms.
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middle Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E9C992
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery Greyware. Base sherd bearing five holes of diameter 2.5mm, from a strainer or colander with a grooved foot ring, of estimated basal diameter 70mm. Suggested date: Early Roman, 40-100. Kindly identified by members of the Community Archaeology Programme. Weight: 12.3gms
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickenby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5642B3
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery, reduced sandy fabric, Greyware. Vessel. Sherd from base and lower body of a strainer or cheese-press with foot-ring; ten round basal perforations were pressed from outside the base of the vessel before firing. Length: 51mm, Thickness (body): 8mm, Weight: 26.46gms.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.