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-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-7CEF22
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval Anglo Saxon pin. The faceted rhomboid head has ring and dot on each of the four faces. There is a small collar between the head and the shaft. The circular section shaft is broken and has a small bend just above the break. The head has a length of 10.8mm, a width of 8.7mm and a thickness of 6.0mm. The surviving length of the pin is 29.5mm, the diameter of the shaft is 1.9mm and the weight is 3.22g.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-BBCEE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper alloy Northumbrian Styca of Aethelred II, c. 840-844.
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-A1D863
Object type: PISTOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, kindly identified as part of a pistol or musket of English manufacture by Kevin Leahy. Kevin comments as follows: 'I think I know what this is: the long lug with a pin through it is typical of the way that English guns were fixed together and I think that what you've got is a bit of trigger guard from a flintlock or percussion gun'. Cast curved plate with U-shaped ends, one broader than the other, and with a long U-shaped lug projecting from its concave side. The lug has a filled drilled hole of diameter c.2mm, suggesting the object pivoted when in use. A fur…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Normanby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-672148
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy brooch or mount, of 8th Century AD dating. Gild copper alloy disc, with a central hole. The disc is divided into four fields by a plain cross in the four angles of which are the figures of animals surrounded by interlace. Each of these looks back over its own body and appears to have wings, although the details are difficult to discern. The eyes are marked by incised dots, the forehead and nose are separated by a steep step and, behind the eye of each animal, are two converging lines. The possible wings also bear converging lines and the animals' bodies m…
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-785C03
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A small narrow cast rectangular-section bar of width 3.7mm, with a possibly zoomorphic rounded terminal resembling the eyes of a fly at one end; it is plain at the other end. Two drilled holes of diameter 1.3mm are set near the rounded terminal, between low flanges and a ridge linking them which bears four neatly incised transverse cuts. Here, two pairs of opposed half-round knops project from either side of the bar, slightly offset both from each other and from the holes, perhaps to represent legs. The terminal itself is divided by a tiny central rid…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-01550A
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stirrup mount, as kindly identified by Kevin Leahy, who comments '...see David Williams' 'Stirrup Terminals', Finds Research Group, Datasheet 24, particularly Fig. 3.The Urnes type eye is a give away. It's still a nice find, and David saw them as being an East Anglian/Lincolnshire type'. A small oval-ended cast hollow object, in the zoomorphic form of a quadruped beast with a gaping open jaw, and with short forelimbs resting on a broad flat tail with two grooves at its end. The flat tail may indicate the subject to be a beaver: a creature known to Anglo-Saxon England, if …
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Temple Bruer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-00F321
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Medieval buckle. The fragment comes from the outside edge of square frame and is surmounted by a knop bearing a human face over which is a leaf-motif. The surviving fraction of the side of the frame shows it to have angled, raising the buckle bar above the level of the outside edge. The surviving length is 19.7mm, the surviving width is 15.8mm, the thickness is 2.4mm and the weight is 2.89g.
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 16th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Covenham St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5B60B5
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy Early Medieval Middle Anglo Saxon slide lock key. The sub-circular sectioned shank terminates at one end with a semi-circular shaped bow with a central circular aperture. The rectangular bit has a smaller rectangular terminal, a rectangular aperture near the shank and three circular projections (each 11.5mm high in a triangular formation at the terminal end). The length of the key is 73.2mm, the length of the shank is 5.8mm, the width of the bow is 38.0mm and the weight is 42.18g.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd July 2008
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willoughby with Sloothby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM40
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy strap loop, trapezoid with two projections on the inside of the narrow end. Swelling in the centre of the wider end. Section D shaped. Loops of this type were found in London in context dated to the thirteenth century (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, 233, Fig. 149)
Created on: Thursday 21st May 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM59
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy clasp, frame made from sheet metal, 0.6mm thick, locking mechanism may have been cast. Dated by Egan and Pritchard (1991, 117) to 'late thirteenth to early fifteenth century'
Created on: Thursday 21st May 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.