Record ID: LVPL-BFFB35
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy unidentified object possibly dating to the Early Bronze Age Arreton Down Metalworking Tradition (1650 BC - 1500 BC). The object is 'flame like' in plan. The blade is 50.60mm in length and the very tip is missing. The incomplete tip is pointed and flares evenly outwards and downwards towards a rounded base. On both faces of the blade, a longitudinal mid-rib extends from the tip to the base. The sides of the blade are roughly parallel and both have flattened surfaces measuring 0.75mm thick. The edges of the blade are incomplete due to both ancient and modern …
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-8DD825
Object type: PHIAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neck and shoulder of small green glass pharmaceutical phial dating to 1600-1700. It has a short neck. The glass is pale green in colour and quite thin, 1.44mm. The rim is 5.27mm wide and most of it has broken away. Only one side of the shoulder remains. Phials were introduced during the seventeenth century and continued into the nineteenth century. They were hand blown and the earliest types are of thin green glass.
Created on: Thursday 10th September 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-955586
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd from the base of a glass bottle, dating to the c. AD 17th - 19th Century. The fragment is slightly corroded giving some areas more of a brown colour. Other areas appear like a dark blue which goes somewhat multi-coloured in the light, showing greens and pinks. It weighs 29.5g, and is c. 37mm in length, c. 51mm in width and c. 10mm thick.
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-2AD237
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete black probably jet bead of uncertain date. The object is fusiform (barrel shaped) and would have had a circular cross-section when complete. Each end of the bead has been flattened. There is no visible decoration on the outer face of the surviving half. A central hole has been drilled through each end of the bead. Dimensions: 30mm in length, 16mm in width, 9mm thick, 2.50g The object not facetted which suggests it was lathe turned rather than pared which would indicate a later, Victorian or Roman, date.
Created on: Friday 10th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Bassett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-30FD58
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy mount, dating to the early Roman period, in the form of the head, neck, and forequarters of a running boar. The mount is hollow-cast and depicts a boar semi-naturalistically. The boar has a large head, oval in cross-section and tapering to a flat oval snout. One nostril is visible in the form of a pellet on the snout, the second is missing due to the loss of patina. Either side of the snout is a moulded ridge, probably representing tusks. The eyes are worn and not visible and above are two ears. The right ear (when viewed facing the object) is wider, measuring 4mm …
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2016
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crambe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-E61C12
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy figurine of uncertain date. The figure has a rounded face, with a small moulded nose and round eyes. Expanding outwards from his chin is a long triangular beard. The shoulders are rounded and the arms appear to be crossed. The legs have broken away just above the knees. The figure has a pronounced forehead behind which is a long moulding which ends just above the shoulders. It is unclear whether this is intended to be hair or the rim of a hat or hood as the detail is worn. On the reverse of the head is a circular projection which appears to be a hat. His back is decor…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buttercrambe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-368972
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
~~Four fragments of a silver bossed penannular brooch. The three largest fragments appear to join together and come from the brooch's terminal, while the smallest fragment is from another part of the brooch. The surviving parts of the brooch include the remains of four (possibly five) bosses, only one retaining the boss itself. On the front of the brooch fragments, the smaller bosses are enclosed by plain incised borders, while the two larger bosses are surrounded by a ring of punches resembling a billeted border. The same type of border runs along the surviving true edge of the l…
Created on: Friday 31st October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bagby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-B51682
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Trajan, (98-117AD). Obv: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI PP; laureate and draped bust right. Rev: SP Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI; figure standing left with ? and cornucopiae.
Created on: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Last updated: Monday 3rd October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bolton Percy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-E80948
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: All 17 coins reported belong to the Primary Phase of early medieval silver sceattas. Details are as follows (coin numbers relate to those shown on the images below): catalogue no. type weight (g) diameter (mm) die axis (xo) original coin no. 1 Series BIa (27b) 1.15 11 45 12 2 Series D (type 2c) …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2013
Last updated: Monday 30th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buttercrambe with Bossal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-8E270E
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Finder: Mr Glenn Lister (2 coins); Mr Paul Marshall (1 coin) Circumstances: Three coins found while metal detecting in October 2014. Description: All three coins reported belong to the Primary Phase of early medieval silver sceattas. Details are as follows (coin numbers relate to those shown on the images below): catalogue no. type weight (g) diameter (mm) die axis (o'clock) 1 Series D (type 2c) 1.14 11 3 2 Series D (type 2c) 1.15 11 9 3 Series D (type 2c) 1.12 12 6 Coins 1 and 2 are die duplicates of both obverse and reverse. These two coins are also die-lin…
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buttercrambe with Bossall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-4DFD3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian trefoil brooch. The fragment consists of one of the arms or lobes of a brooch, with the other two missing. The object is decorated decorated in the Borre-Jelling style of the second half of the tenth century. Half way down on the left hand side, (when viewing the object) is a left-facing Jellinge-style create, with a round eye, open jaw and a 'pigtail' or ear lappet, extending downwards across the top of the animal's body. This creates an opening through which another lappet-like feature interlaces, extending upwards. The rest of…
Created on: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-5D7124
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy finger ring dating to the Post-Medieval period. The object consists of a simple undecorated hoop which is D-shaped in cross section. There is a small join visible where the hoop was soldered together. The object was possibly inscribed on the inside as a faint impression remains. The remains of gilding can also be seen on the inside of the hoop. The object has a dark brown patina and is worn.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2011
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Tanfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-FFAD52
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy cast medieval strap loop of possible zoomorphic design. The object is undecorated and mostly flat, with two foot-like projections forming a semi-enclosure. Similar objects with more identifiably animalistic features have been recorded (see LVPL-207BE3, LVPL-2137D3 and LVPL-20C5D0).
Created on: Friday 25th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-5E05FB
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (mid-13th to 14th centuries) harness pendant: The copper-alloy pendant is a quatrefoil in plan with a small triangular knop in the corners of the quatrefoil. At the top of the pendant is a transverse lug which is pierced for attachment. The outer face of the pendant is decorated with a heraldic design, depicting a probable lion which is unclear, advancing left within a rectangular field of red (gules) enamel. Beyond the shield, on the leaves of the quatrefoil is curvilinear decoration picked out in dark blue enamel. The rear of the object is undecorated and damaged wit…
Created on: Friday 13th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crambe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-218FE5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. The pendant is a quatrefoil in plan with a triangular knop in each corner. The object has an integral suspension loop at the top. It is decorated on the front face with enamel. In the centre is an unclear animal possibly a dragon or lion in red (gules). On each side of this a lis extends out. The field is blue (azure). The dragon is inside a square, The reverse is undecorated. The harness pendant dates to the Medieval period and were most popular in the 13th and early 14th century (Griffiths, N. 1986 Horse Harness Pendants Finds Research…
Created on: Tuesday 30th March 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sherburn in Elmet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-8F3FDB
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy harness pendant dating to the medieval period. The object is heater or shield shaped in plan with a transverse projection loop at the top. The loop has an internal diameter of 2.11mm. The remains of a heraldic device can be seen on the outer face. The pendant appears to bear the blazon 'gules, three lions passant guardant. A small area of gilding remains on the tail of a lion. The object has a dark green patina. These are the Royal Arms of England, issued during the reign of Richard I (AD 1189-199) and not altered since. It is likely that this pendant would ha…
Created on: Friday 18th July 2014
Last updated: Friday 16th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-8A1833
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy incomplete lock pin probably dating to the Roman period, (43-410AD). The lock is formed from a large bowl shaped knop with sides which flare outwards. The upper surface of the bowl is sunken with a large conical pellet projecting centrally. From the base of the bowl the iron rectangular sectioned shaft projects slightly but is broken. The rectangular shaft section and the use of copper alloy suggest that this object is a lock pin rather than furniture fitting of later date and similar style. However, the tip of the shaft which would have included the perforati…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buttercrambe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-B79972
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman dupondius of Domitian (AD 81-96), probably dating to the period AD 81-82 (Reece period 4). Uncertain reverse type probably depicting Minerva standing left with thunderbolt and spear, shield at her left side. Mint of Rome. Cf. RIC II (2nd ed.), pp. 270 and 271, cf. nos. 84 and 109 for a possible reverse type.
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-522A86
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold Venetian ducat of Doge Francesco Foscari (1423-57), mint: Venice (Zecca). CNI 60-74 (probably 68). Ref: CNI vol.VII (Venice/Venezia), p. 131-3. The coin is struck on an irregular flan (it is not clipped), fairly typical of this coinage. The imperfect punches used in the production of the coin are also consistent with other examples. Obverse: FRAC FOSCARI DVX S M VENETI, S. Marco and Doge kneeling, together holding banner. Reverse: SIT T XPE DAT Q TV REGIS ISTE DVCAT, Christ standing facing, raising right hand in benediction, Gospels in left, surrounded b…
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gate Helmsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-B3CE13
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy mount or stud which may have contained a heraldic device. The object is shield shaped in plan and flat. Te integral shank would have projected from the rear of the object however has been flattened against the rear face. The object is worn and has a mid-brown patina. It probably dates to the late 13th or 14th century. Griffiths (1989) states that smaller shield studs (20mm or less in height), similar to this example may have been attached to iron stirrups.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buttercrambe', grid reference and parish protected.