Record ID: NLM-039468
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount fragment. Small thin fragment, possibly from a mount of cross-shaped form with concave sides to its arms, retaining interlace strap-work with relict gilding on one side, with plain borders, one lightly convex and the other concave. Lightly bent, broken along one edge. Kevin Leahy kindly comments as follows: 'I think that this piece represents a fragment decorated in what the Staffordshire Hoard report called the 'Early Insular Style' which was dated to c. 630-660. The matting-link interlace formed from three strands is characteristic of what was, in the Staffs. Hoar…
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby cum Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-42CC0B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. A small cast asymmetrical tapered strap end with an expanded wedge-shaped split end occupied by a large bordered eye-shaped element of interlace; a pair of stumpy protrusions [legs or fins?] on one side only; continuing arcs of deeply defined interlace along its narrow body; and a longitudinally grooved and narrow pointed tongue with chevrons along its length protruding from narrow jaws, one possibly undershot and the other perhaps bearing a small rounded protruding eye. The interlace which begins strongly at the wedge-shaped end may continue in a pattern perha…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Monday 3rd February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D69A09
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint possible edge-polished fragment. A chunk of lentoid section with an apparently curving cutting edge with polishing immediately adjacent to it, but otherwise bearing the scars of covering scalar working entailing hard hammer removal of a small number of large flakes. Though the putative cutting edge is crisp, the object is broken c.40mm behind it. All surfaces, including the putative fracture surface, are identically covered by a dense creamy patina and are iron stained, features suggesting a prolonged exposure to a calcareous environment followed by incorporation in gravels. Thi…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-55DD82
Object type: BLOOM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron metalworking debris. A large oval-ended furnace bottom or bloom [the finder's identification] with a flat top and near-vertical if irregular sides, formed either in the base of an iron ore burning furnace or in a channel cut to receive molten metal from such furnace. The object was retrieved from a reported depth of c.0.9m, and involved the cooperative labours of two people working at arms' length to extract it from the hole. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly comments that the object has the superficial appearance of cast iron, and that this would carry with it an implication of a date af…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9FDE5A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Narrow pointed strap end made from two sheets of thickness 0.5mm joined at the belt end by a rivet of diameter 1.6mm and length 3.3mm. It is uncertain how the pointed ends of the sheets were joined; perhaps by a spot of brazing. Though the form and construction is simple, it does not appear amongst numerous strap ends of medieval date reported from London, where comparable shapes were achieved by folding sheet metal. Kevin Leahy kindly notes similar strap ends to be common finds from 14th-century contexts at York. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400. Length:…
Created on: Friday 23rd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-5D3FCD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probable annular brooch of medieval date, probable about AD 1200 - 1400. The brooch is incomplete with part of the frame missing, including the presumed constriction for the pin. The frame is oval in plan and rectangular in section. The front face is decorated with incised symbols, perhaps intended to be letters, but none are clearly identifiable as Roman or lombardic letters. It is perhaps an inscription rendered by an illiterate maker. If the inscription is in blackletter, the lines are outlineing letters rather than forming letters themselves, but the legend still ap…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-1F5FB7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly Early Medieval (late Anglo Saxon) copper alloy zoomorphic strap fitting with a suspension loop; a form described by Egan and Pritchard as a bar-mount with pendant loop, or in record LON-B3DD46 as a ring-link connector. The strap fitting possibly dates from the 9th or 10th century. This strap fitting has been cast in one piece with a front and back plate connected via a tapered loop which has a D-shaped cross-section. The front plate is ornate. The upper end is incomplete, broken across three prongs of an openwork design. The breaks are patinated. Two moulded curved ridge…
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-53E540
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy with gilding mount fragment. Cast flat backed plate in the form of the head of a bird with curving bill, probably one of a symetrically addorsed pair, as adduced by ragged broken edges behind the body. An eye is defined naturalistically in relief, as is a nostril at the top of the beak, but the neck and upper body afford fields for curvilinear interlaced ornament, each strand of which comprises paired ridges highlighted by deeply incised (or appearing thus) gutters between them. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly identifies this piece as of Salin Style 2, and as such an indication of …
Created on: Friday 28th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F24D77
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy pin. Cast slightly tapering pin of round section with a flat openwork head with engrailed edges and a balanced curvilinear composition, possibly abstracted from the popular motif of a hand grasping a fruit or pearl. On one side - the better preserved - a collar is provided at the base of the head by a horizontal series of tiny and closely spaced punched dots of diameter c.0.5mm; similar dots also form a border motif for the open parts of the head, probably on both sides. The shank is bent through 90 degrees at its mid point, a feature of hair pins sometimes thought to rel…
Created on: Tuesday 10th September 2013
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-906357
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Pump seal Weights, as kindly identified by Dr Kevin Leahy. Two cast plates (a and b). Each object is a plate with one rounded end and an opposed straight edge, formed like the heel of a boot. The objects have bevelled edges, which for a heel would be angled inward and forward. The 'upper' surfaces bear integrally cast waisted studs with rounded heads of diameter 22-25mm. The larger of these objects retains fragments of thick (circa 4mm) leather in the waist of the stud, which probably passed through a slightly smaller hole cut in the leather. The leather would be oiled to serve…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AB2595
Object type: HINGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible hinge strap fragment. Wrought iron strip of rectangular section with a flattened oval end; the object is broken at its other end next to a circular hole of estimated diameter 7mm. This identification was kindly offered by Dr Kevin Leahy. Given there is only a single hole for a nail to attach the putative strap to a door or shutter, and given that the hole is far from its finished end, an alternative interpretation as a tine detached from a tool such as a hay rake or eel spear might also be entertained. The finder's suggestion that this could be a weapon fragment is not s…
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-499221
Object type: BOX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Weight Box. A cast box with separately cast hinged lid. The box is circular, expanding in size from base to lid, and bears eight external vertical ribs; two pairs of ribs are closely set, defining the opposed positions of a hinge and a catch. An irregular stamped pattern on the lid resembles ring and dot decoration, and is apparently arranged in a cruciform pattern. Several tiny fragments of stone or metal were contained in the box, which was opened at the time of discovery, broken during this investigation, and is now glued shut. The finder initially considere…
Created on: Thursday 30th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 29th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-FEEF24
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval gilt copper alloy mount. It is square with concave sides with an animal's head protruding from each of the four corners. The surface is flat and decorated with Borre style knotwork. Gilding survives over much of the surface. On the back are four rectangular projecting tabs, three of which have broken off at the base. The use for the mount remains unknown. It has a length of 25.1mm and a width of 24.8mm, it has a thickness of 4.4mm and it weighs 10.92g. It probably dates from the late 9th or 10th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 17th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Appleby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7440C4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a late seventeenth or eighteenth century two part, cast copper alloy buckle frame. The surviving part is in the form of a human head, possibly a king's head. The head is facing and has a curved hand on his head which has three grooves and may be the band of a crown. Above the band, is a triangular projection at end with a square pellet on, which may in fact be the side fleurs of the crown. The face is very stylised with a large nose which is connected to the eyes by swirling line. The curved bushy, chin length hair is decorated with square pellets. At the back of pin hea…
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2008
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hibaldstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-202521
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast copper alloy Early Medieval Anglo Saxon cruciform brooch. The trapezoidal head plate has a rectangular wing either side. There is a decorated vertical line of punched dots down the side of the head pate and also down a raised central band on each wing. Above the head plate is an integral half-domed knop with a collar and a grooved line around the bottom of the dome. The side knops are also integral but are not identical with the left one being slightly smaller and lower. On the back of the head plate is the remains of an incomplete single pierced hinge and the …
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby Le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7A7F76
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a copper alloy bracelet of Roman date. The bracelet consists of two strands of copper alloy wire which is D-shaped in section and has been twisted together. Both ends of the bracelet are truncated. The surviving length is 38.7mm, the width is 3.9mm, the thickness is 3.4mm and the weight is 2.01g.
Created on: Monday 22nd September 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby Le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7A5950
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Roman shale spindle whorl. The plano-convex spindle whorl has a circular perforation through the centre which has a diameter of 8.1mm. On one face, around the central perforation is a groove and the other face is incomplete. The surface of the spindle whorl is cracking all the way around. The external diameter is 36.7mm, the width is 21.7mm and the weight is 19.48g.
Created on: Monday 22nd September 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby Le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B86632
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Early Medieval Middle Anglo Saxon pin. The rolled copper alloy sheet shaft splays out at one end to form a fragment of a plate. The tapering shaft is slightly bent midway down and is truncated. The surviving length is 29.9mm, the maximum diameter of the shaft is 2.0mm and the weight is 0.54g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby Cum Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8F5587
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Medieval Mount. The rectangular panel is decorated with two vertical rows of incised chevrons with a thick plain band between them. The decoration has traces of gilding surviving on the edges of the chevrons. At the back of the panel is an integral circular sectioned rivet. Along one of the long edges of the panel is an integral smaller band, which is truncated at the other end. The band is much thinner than the panel and is slightly and has had much wear. The length is 33.0mm, the width is 25.8mm, the thickness of the panel is 3.3mm, the length of t…
Created on: Friday 6th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-3EFB71
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Bronze Age thumbnail scraper of a mid brown translucent flint. The dorsal face has fine retouch starting midway on the left and continuing along the distal end to the bottom of the right side. The ventral face has a concoidal fracture and a small bulb of percussion. The length is 22.8mm, the width is 18.1mm, the thickness is 5.7mm and the weight is 2.64g.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby Le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.