Record ID: NLM-E3C94D
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead bag seal. Cast disc with a slot in its edge and an opposed bifurcated slot, to function as a drawstring bag closure. Both sides bear the central motif of the Pelican in its Piety, the brand mark of Earles Cement Co. Partial legends on both sides read: [EAR]LES LIMITED. Patinated. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Diameter: 21.1mm, Thickness (at edge): 7.5mm, Weight: 10.07gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Faldingworth', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

Record ID: NLM-64E96A
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast biconical whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 10mm. Moulded decoration on one side comprises thirteen or fourteen rays, some converging with their neighbours to form the points of an irregular and incomplete star, and with [usually] a single pellet in each of the compartments so defined. The other side appears to bear fewer lines and pellets in pairs. A moulded circumferential rib marks the meeting of the two halves. Crushed on one side with consequent local distortion. Patinated. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, …
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: NLM-64B75A
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. Patinated. 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, and contained a measured charge. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700 Width: 32.1mm, Height: 18.3mm, Thickness (overall at base): 18.4mm, Weight: 23.78gms
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: NLM-54C694
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with an uneven surface with off-centre dimple and a flat base; perhaps cast in an open mould suggesting the flat side to have been uppermost at the time of fabrication. Opposed pairs of nicks appear on the flat side. The metal retains a grey tint suggesting its relatively recent date. Though a weight close to this mass was reported from the London waterfront (Egan 1998, table 15) though it was not thought to respect any prevailing standard. This object might alternatively represent one and a half averdepois ounces, perhaps as a homemade weight for the k…
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-54544C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with an uneven upper surface on which appear straight lines moulded in bold relief. The lines may represent two separate arrowhead forms or perhaps an untidy monogram including letter forms resembling M and V. On the base – or the top as cast in an open mould - there is a central dimple with a crudely incised triangle around it. Patinated. The combination of relief features, dimple and incised base recur in medieval London (e.g. Egan 1998 fig. 233 no. 993, see also no. 990) where they may respect a medieval standard (ibid. table 15), and were poss…
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-4F30C5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and lead possible button fragment. Cast lightly biconvex disc with a central round hole marking the loss of a separate loop from the middle of the back. The sheathing of a lead core is an unusual feature of what would be a rather massy form of fastener if the identification were upheld. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1800 Diameter: 24.4mm, Thickness: 6.5mm, Weight: 12.63gms
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-4E8498
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy button copy. Cast plano-convex uniform button front bearing a Crown Imperial above a bugle with the number 20 between these features, and with a now-crescentic basal legend which probably extended round the button retaining the letters [--]TEERS [--]. This would seem to be the relict of the word Volunteers. There is no trace of a loop or its loss on a featureless smooth back. This is probably a casting taken from a 19th-century military uniform button. What is described above may suggest this to be from the periods of recruitment of volunteer or yeomanry regiments to defend …
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-D53320
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast flat-sided whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 7mm and  rounded outer edge. Patinated. The spindle hole size could admit a Roman or Anglo-Saxon date while the mass would permit use spinning a fine yarn. Patinated and fiercely abraded. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-850 Diameter: 19.2mm, Thickness: 4.6mm, Weight: 8.16gms
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-D0E78B
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead seal matrix. Cast oval or vesica-shaped matrix with relict traces of a central fleur de lis motif with circumferential legend, the latter defying translation or reproduction as an imprint though including adjacent letters of W and M forms as they appear on the matrix. A stub at one end of the back may be an integral handle. Patinated. The back is partly melted; bent. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1300. Length: 32.3mm, Width: 20.5mm, Thickness: 4mm, Weight: 14.04gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Linwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D88896
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead and iron Roman steelyard weight dating to c.AD 43-410. A bi-convex lead weight with evidence of iron at one terminal. Originally an iron rod would have passed through it and the uppermost would have housed a separate iron loop. Patinated.  Height: 37.98 mm, Width (waist): 22.99 mm, Weight: 72.32g
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Greetham with Somersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D86CD4
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead pendant or mount, probably medieval to post-medieval in date. The object is drop-shaped, plano-convex with a piercing at the narrow end. It is decorated on both sides with radiating oblique grooves around the perimeter. Mid-grey patina. Length: 15.92mm; Width: 11.67 mm; Thickness: 3.26 mm; Weight: 3.91g
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Greetham with Somersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D4C018
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead medieval spindle whorl dating to c.AD 1150-1450. It is triangular with a circular flat base and top with a circular hole running through the object. Pale-cream patina. Diameter: 23.9 mm; Height: 24.72 mm; Weight: 32.92g
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Greetham with Somersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-C56C03
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead plaque of probable Georgian/Victorian date c. AD 1700-1900. The piece is the form of arcading with a small cherub figure lounging over the top and holding onto a textile piece. The archading is decorated with foliate motif and is triple banded around the curved and longitudinal sides. There are two circule indenatations on the reverse, probably to fix it to another piece. The reverse is flat and it has a lozenge shape with illegible shape/writing. Max Length (diagonal from broken curved frame): 70.09 mm; Thickness: 13.83 mm; Weight: 85.79g
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-224968
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead spindle whorl of medieval to post medieval date (c. AD 1150 - 1600). The whorl is sub-circular, plano-convex and the reverse has a slight rim around the circumference. There is an irregular central hole of 8 mm in diameter and four smaller holes of 4 mm and 2 mm in diameter equally spaced around it. Diameter 30 mm, thickness 9 mm and weight 34.19 g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-21AEE9
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post medieval to modern lead leather workers' palm guard, dating to c. AD 1600 - 1900. It is D shaped in plan with a broad shallow domed cross section. The flat side has several random scratches. The other side also has some scratches and some depressions caused by poor casting.  In the middle is a 12 mm in diameter circular depression, which is 2 mm deep. Such objects would have been wrapped in cloth or leather with a hole above the depression. They were then strapped to the hand to protect the palm when tightening cord or using awls a…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-0CDB92
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval lead weight, dating to c. AD 1600 - 1900. In plan the weight is a tapering rectangle and in profile is wedge shaped. The base is flat. At the flat top there is a loop made of copper alloy wire which appears to extend internally to the base as some of the wire is exposed at one of the base corners. There are no markings on the weight body. It weighs 83.78 grams which is equivelant to being just under three ounces. Height 47 mm, width 22 mm, thickness 17 mm and weight 83.78 g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-F7A2DC
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval lead seal matrix, dating to c. AD 1200 - 1300. The body has broken roughly through the middle with some small parts missing from the outer edge. The centre has three 'petals' of an eight petalled motif which is fully within a circle. The remains of the legend around the edge reads I PREST.  The 'I' is most probably the last letter of a personal name.  PREST could possibly mean Priest, Priest like or un-Priest like (Reaney and Wilson (under Priest)). There is one other seal matrix on the database wi…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-F72A86
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crude medieval to post medieval unifaced lead token, dating to c. AD 1400 - 1800. The reverse is plain except for some scratch marks. The obverse has a slightly raised outer rim with numerous randomly spaced punched round indentations within. Diameter 28 mm, thickness 3 mm and weight 12.7 g.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.