Record ID: NLM-C1A758
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), seventh issue of 1601-1602 Obverse description: [bust left], two pellets behind head. Obverse inscription: [E.D.G. ROSA. SINE.]SPINA Reverse description: Shield of Arms of England and France, long cross, heavy outlines to shield; mintmark 1 (1) Reverse inscription: CIVI//[TAS/LON]/DON Diameter: 16.2mm, Weight: 0.88gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B0581C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Probably a penny of Charles I (1625-1649), pierced at 2 O’clock obverse from that side. Obverse description: [bust] Obverse inscription: CARO(-)D.G. Reverse description: Arms in cartouche Reverse inscription: IVSTITIA THRO(N)[VM] FIRMAT Diameter: 13.5mm, Weight: 0.39gms, die axis: probably 6
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stockwith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B03626
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle fragment. Cast single looped frame with a pointed lip and integrally cast V-shaped spacer plate; a drawn wire pin remains looped round the cleft between prongs. Slight traces of solder appear on the prongs from the attachment of plates [now lost]. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1450 Length: 37.6mm, Height: 15.3mm, Thickness (frame): 2mm, Weight: 3.15gms  
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B00EDB
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal matrix. Cast circular matrix with a tapered faceted handle with a collared trefoil suspension loop. The handle and loop are abraded but the engraved matrix remains crisp. It depicts [on the imprint] a stag running left, with the legend: *TIMET  E DEVM [he fears God?] – this reporter would welcome a reading making better use of the middle E character. Malcolm Jones kindly comments: 'It's the common inscription TIMETE DEVM [fear God] -- a (plural) imperative -- the E between the stag;s legs belongs to the incomplete TIMET'. Suggested dat…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-FD134C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy weight. Cast square apothecary or chemist’s weight with stamped symbol resembling a 3 with FS in florid script adjoining, representing one half scruple. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900 Length: 10.4mm, Width: 10.5mm, Thickness: 2mm, Weight: 1.78gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stockwith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-65CB02
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Long cross penny of Edward I (1272-1307), Class 10cf3 issue of 1305-1307 Obverse description: facing bust with bifoliate crown with curved band, big hair, drapery of angled wedges. Initial cross pattee. Obverse inscription: +EDW[A R A]NGL DNS [hYB] Reverse description: long cross, three pellets in each angle Reverse inscription: CIVI/[TAS]/LON/DO[N] Diameter: 18.5mm, Weight: 1.34gms, die axis: 10
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A74C7F
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Cast livery button with the front depicting a facing stag’s head of twelve points over an heraldic bar within a pronounced bordering rim; the front is plated with white metal. The back bears a maker’s back stamp in two orders: C & J. WELDON 130 CHEAPSIDE/LONDON. A drawn wire loop is brazed to the back plate, where a tiny scrap of textile was observed. The company was active 1851 to 1910+. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1851-1900 Diameter: 26mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 1.7mm, Weight: 6.99gms
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DE3212
Object type: RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ring. A cast rectangular section ring with a single slightly tapered bar or spoke projecting from its rim. The ring is textured with a series of indentations on one side of its rim, which is plain on the other. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Diameter: 25.9mm, Band Width: 3mm, Band Thickness: 4.1mm, Weight: 5.85gms
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Westwoodside', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DE11F4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy unidentified object fragment. A rectangular fragment of a strip with a raised rectangular panel with moulded relief on one side, and a circular mark confining a legend rendered in modern-style capitals on the other, reading: SA LE T. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 15.6mm, Width: 11.4mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 3.17gms
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Westwoodside', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DDEF81
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead bag seal. Cast disc with a slot in one side and an opposed bifurcated slot, to function as a drawstring bag closure. Both sides bear the motif of the Pelican in its Piety, which served as the brandmark for Earles of Hull, who ran the cement factory at South Ferriby for the first half of the 20th century. Folded sharply and patinated. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Diameter: 20mm, Thickness: 4.8mm, Weight: 10.86gms
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Westwoodside', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-12EB52
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy possible vessel fragment. Cast rim fragment from a small vessel with a flat-topped square rim which overhangs the wall slightly; fiercely abraded with an incised circumferential line below the rim on the outer side. The finder kindly reports that Roman finds have come from the vicinity. The grey tint of metal, however, might point to a more recent date. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1700 Height: 24.3mm, Width: 26.8mm, Thickness (rim): 10mm, Weight: 13.64gms
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misson', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FC6FF5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin. Cast pin with plain biconical head with flattened medial band, collar, and a round-section shank [diameter 2.1mm] of undifferentiated section in so far as it survives, Flixborough type 331. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 800-850 Length: 33.2mm, Diameter (head): 9mm, Weight: 2.92gms
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunham on Trent', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FC4F91
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ampulla. Hollow cast miniature vessel in the form of a flattened bulbous flask with thin side handle loops projecting from its plain neck; the body of the vessel is of peltate form with upswept ends; the mouth is slightly expanded and now open. Bilateral decoration comprises the moulded rays resembling the fluting of a cockle shell on one side, the same ribbing carried over to the medial zone or sides of the flask, and a plain circular panel on the other side. Elements of the design recall a class of ampullae whose distribution may centre on Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire, tho…
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunham on Trent', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FC2C9C
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead seal matrix. Oval or vesica-shaped cast plate with the incised motif of a cross with a ray between each arm, or possibly a simple floret as the matrix. Patinated. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1350 Length: 29.7mm, Width: 15.6mm, Thickness: 2.1mm, Weight: 6.21gms
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stokeham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FC01BA
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible padlock case. A cast sub-cylindrical object of lightly keeled section with one flat closed end and one end open, and with large opposed rectangular cut-out windows of length 22.4mm in its sides. The pointed or keeled side of the object bears a probably separately moulded object of symmetrical form, with a curved and corrugated or ridged rectangular element [of length 10.3mm and width5.9mm] which clasps the cylinder wall, with opposed integrally cast rings at either end, both with a central pin and all now reduced to projecting stubs. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250…
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FBDD03
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast line weight, of elongated oval or teardrop form and of an angular rhomboid section with a projecting beaded edge all around. There may be a faintly moulded herringbone pattern on one or both sides which seems to have randomly been supplemented by crudely incised strokes. Torn at its narrower upper end, probably marking the loss of a suspension loop. Patinated. A group of similar weights come from a stratified context at Hull, Myton Street, where a 14th-century date is proposed, and others occasionally nod to their primary function with piscine ornamental motifs. Sugge…
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FBB927
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Halfgroat of an indeterminate later medieval ruler, Canterbury mint, probably Henry VI or Edward IV, issue of 1422-1483, probably clipped with loss of most of legends; a star may appear in upper legend obverse side which could point to an issue of 1335-1343, though this might equally be the indented ends of lettering. Obverse description: facing bare shouldered bust with tall bifoliate crown whose ornaments appear to touch, within a heavily rendered nine-arched tressure. Obverse inscription: possibly [--]DI GRA[--] Reverse description: long cross, three pellets in each …
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FB96CB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy finger ring or signet ring fragment. Cast cylindrical bezel detached from a signet ring, with a stepped or bevelled top and side which may have been clasped by the edge of a tall collet. The matrix bears the prominently inscribed letters, reversed: VIV/SA, which would produce an imprint reading VIV/AS [may you live/flourish], a formula deemed to imply the Christian belief of the user. Tiny straight serifs have been added to the letters using a thinner bladed implement. The back retains greyish traces, probably of a fixative. Suggested date: Late Roman, 250-410 Diameter: 1…
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stokeham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FB7164
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy book fitting. Cast plate with a short folded tab at one end and slightly expanded to fishtail form at the other, Howsam type A3. A fixing hole at the wider end bears doubled concentric rings around it. Stamped decoration comprises billeted lines and a billeted zig-zag motif at the tab end. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1550-1650 Length: 38.1mm, Width: 13.7mm, Thickness: 0.9mm, Weight: 2.39gms
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Drayton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FB51C2
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sword belt fitting. Cast hemispherical slightly concavo-convex pear-shaped mount with a collared and knurled or wrythen terminal retaining rust traces from an iron fixing pin, and an opposed uncollared short backward-pointing hook which passes through a light triple loop whose edges are thinned by localised wear. There is the stub of an integral fixing pin behind the top of the hook. The larger component is similar to NLM-FB2F94 and the two may come from the same functional assemblage. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Length: 51.5mm, Width (attached object): 15.2m…
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Drayton', grid reference and parish protected.