Record ID: NLM-239E88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast cruciform brooch, comprising head, mid bow, lower bow and foot and retaining a single U-shaped lug behind the middle of the head and a folded catch plate between lappets at the top of the lower bow. Bent across the head by plough or spade strike. A rectangular plate has slightly indented or concave upper and lower edges, a central trapezoid panel, also plain, and is surmounted by an integrally cast half-round collared top knob which is lightly hollowed behind. An incised horizontal groove passes across the base of the central panel on the head, with oppo…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thoresway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM80
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy pin from a brooch, round shank with a ring fitting at one end, between the ring and shank is a well defined collar. Probably the pin from a Medieval ring brooch
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-160081
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete cast copper alloy Medieval rotary key. The hollow tubular stem terminates with a collar of three mouldings and a circular bow. On either side of the bow are a number of spurs that could represent animal heads. The symmetrical rectangular bit has two clefts on each side and a cleft on the bottom. The length of the bit is 12.2mm, the width is 18.3mm and the thickness is 5.5mm. The external length of the bow is 23.5mm and the width is 17.9mm. The complete length of the key is 68.5mm, the diameter of the stem is 7.3mm and the weight is 27.39g.
Created on: Friday 7th September 2007
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ranby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BBEF82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval silver penny of Cnut, quatrefoil type (N781), c. 1017-23. The moneyer is probably Leofwine, the mint signature is damaged but [ ]OD can be seen, the most likely mint would be Thetford (DEOD) but it could also be Norwich mis-spelled (NORD).
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 11th November 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-E8A768
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd from the shoulder of an Early Medieval, Early Anglo Saxon pottery vessel with stamp decoration. The dark brown fabric has about twenty percent poorly sorted sub-rounded quartz grain filler. Two stamp dies have been used, a plain die and a complete whorl design. There are also two incised circumferencial lines below the stamps. As decorated pottery is rare on settlement sites, it is possible that this sherd came from an urn.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-C38E40
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of a Bronze Age pottery vessel. The light brown sherd is heavily abraded and has voids of varying sizes on both faces.
Created on: Monday 20th October 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-AA6A96
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey flint knife. Oval knife with abrupt hard hammer working from various directions covering both sides. There is a suggestion of battering along one edge of what may have been the dorsal aspect, to judge from the curved profile of the flake. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly suggests that the low angle retouch should suggest the identification of this object as a knife, rather than a scraper, which was the initial suggestion advanced by this reporter. Suggested date: Bronze Age, 2350-800 BC. Length: 53.1mm, Width: 33.0mm, Thickness: 13.1mm, Weight: 24.14gms.
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 5th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelstern', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-93F645
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mottled grey flint with cortex at edge knife. Oval flake with long broad parallel flake removal scars on its dorsal side, and with broader scars on the ventral, the latter probably struck from the other end but in both cases with prominent rippling. Together these conferred a sharp cutting edge. Suggested date: Bronze Age, 2350-801. Length: 51.8mm, Width: 36.5mm, Thickness: 8.2mm, Weight: 17.63gms.
Created on: Wednesday 17th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E2A911
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Roman bone object, possibly a pin dating to c.AD 43-410. The object comprises a squashed globular, faceted and sub-rectangular-sectioned head with an off-centre circular hole or aperture. A sub-rectangular shaft, sub-circular in cross-section, extends 11.04 mm in length from the head, it is slightly facetted and terminates with a broken blunt end. Total surviving length: 19.75 mm; Width: 9.56 mm; Thickness: 4.96 mm; Weight: 0.65g Kevin Leahy notes there are parallels for this object at Aldborough (Yorkshire), described as possible needles and broadly da…
Created on: Wednesday 25th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-DF43C3
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Iron plough coulter, as kindly identified by Dr Kevin Leahy, intended to cut the sod which is then lifted by the plough share and, when it was introduced, turned by a mould board. Heavy wrought iron blade of V section of length 290mm, with an angled back towards its point and worn to a convergent point on its cutting edge, and with a thick and [now] rectangular tang of length 83mm; the junction between tang and blade is angled at forty-five degrees. The blade is at its broadest just before the convergence of the upper and lower edges begins. Dr Leahy notes the object resembles Anglo-S…
Created on: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8D0A92
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Cast fragment with a flat back. The reddish tint below an abraded surface patina is a feature of many objects of Anglo-Scandinavian date. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly comments that, rather than being a distressed artefact fragment, this may be a fragment of casting spillage.Suggested date: Unknown, 43-1800. Length: 18.8mm, Width: 13.4mm, Thickness: 2.2mm, Weight: 1.58gms.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-372891
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron early-medieval bridle fitting: a cheekpiece. Curving plate with a rectangular loop at the top and a possibly openwork arrangement of ten apertures, mostly sub-circular. Extensive ferrous corrosion suggests this was attached to an iron object. Degraded moulded decoration comprises possibly zoomorphic terminals at the ends of the plate, apparently with long tongues projecting from the gaping jaws of beasts; vertical groups of ribs, and a possibly devolved beast head or mask ornament below the loop. David Williams here kindly identifies a projecting animal head (a l…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1F5CE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch with enamel and gilding. Circular, with an enamel design resembling a seven pointed star - or a six pointed star with a thick stalk - on its raised pedestal, which is of thickness 2.9mm, and detached from a separate back plate of thickness 1.2mm, which retains gilding, and which may have had a series of projecting lugs. Though the enamel was confined in cells, there is little visible of their walls. A central square cell contains brick red enamel. The star motif is of light blue enamel, and the field between the points of the star is dark blue. The rim of the back …
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-578FC3
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron balance fragment. Central beam and one hinged arm from a tiny balance. The arm has a bulbous end, perhaps to permit tied attachment of a pan. A separate pin of diameter 1.5mm and length 3.8mm joins arm and beam. Ferrous corrosion at the centre of the beam suggests provision for the suspension of the set of scales. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly suggests this may be of Roman date, though no other material of that date was reported with it. Suggested date: Possibly Roman, 43-410. Length: 27.9mm, Width: 6.7mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 2.12gms.
Created on: Wednesday 9th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-1B6554
Object type: BROOCH PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible brooch pin, as identified by Dr Kevin Leahy. Cast square section pin with flat discoid terminal with a semi-circular loop; the end of the shank is lost. Suggested date: probably Medieval, 1200-1350. Length: 33.9mm, Diameter (head): 10.6mm, Thickness (shank): 2.7mm, Weight: 3.52gms.
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-7CAD37
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Post Medieval button. The three-part button has a plano convex sheet metal lower disc to which the missing shank was once attached. The upper part of the button is pressed sheet metal, openwork and decorated with four panels of lead and fruit motifs. In the centre of the upper part is a six petal flower. Around the lower part of the openwork decoration is a rung of open loops. The openwork cover and basal disc are over a core, the nature of which cannot be determined. The diameter is 17.3mm, the length is 18.0mm and the weight is 6.80g.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-7CD7C3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval key. The hollow shank is circular in section and is truncated at the shoulders. The bow is missing. The complete sub-rectangular bit is S-shaped when viewed from the end. The surviving length is 78.3mm, the width is 27.6mm, and the thickness is 9.3mm. The diameter of the shank is 9.3mm and the weight is 42.01g.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-7CFBC4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Irish Medieval silver penny of Edward I, class 1b, c. 1279-1284. Dublin mint. Alan Smith kindly comments as follows: '... I think there may be a wrong image on here. As far I can see the image is definately a solid long cross Irish Edward 1st penny (second coinage) class 1b, the Obverse legend reads .EDW.R. / ANGL'D / NS.hYB' (unusually with a bar over the "S" and possibly a further mark at the end of the legend) The reverse reads CIVI / TAS / DUBL / INIE so definately Dublin mint............ as Seaby 6247 I believe'.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-7D7D12
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver voided long cross penny of Henry III, class 3, c.1248-50. Moneyer's name is Adam and mint is Oxford.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-7E0943
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval silver penny of Henry I, Type XI, North No. 867, Double inscription type, c. 1115.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.