Record ID: LANCUM-308CC4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large orangey pottery sherd. Probably 14th/15th century Humberware pottery sherd. May have come from a drinking jug or storage jar.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-30ACC5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of orangey pottery sherd. Probably 14th/15th century Humberware pottery sherds. May of been part of a drinkning jug or storage jar.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-30BED6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Smooth fragment of orangey pottery sherd. Probably 14th/15th century Humberware pottery sherds. May have been part of a drinking jug or storage jar.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-30D7C6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A trapezoidal fargment of orangey pottery probably 14th/15th Humberware pottery. Possibly from drinking vessel or storage jar.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-311A52
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small red sherd , coarse sandy oxidised ware with sparse flint inclusions. 1300-1500AD
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-312E90
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified brimstone
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-317D47
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cream-glazed 19th century storage vessel sherd. Possibly a jar.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-318DC7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of a 19th century Victorian storage jar. A red fabric with a thick dark brown glaze
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-319F83
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late 19th century Victirian fragment of a jar. Contained nutritive cream
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B10EC4
Object type: MAIL ARMOUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An image of the fragment of mail has been analysed by Paul Thompson, Museum Archaeology Officer, Coventry, and his verdict is: Its round section, riveted mail with two failed links. Rather than square section or butted links which were often used for repairs although re-enactors use them to make complete garments. Its made in a pattern known as barley corn where one link joins to four other links, two above and two below, never to another link in the same row. This is easier to see on a larger piece and is the standard way of producing mail. It could have originated from almost any…
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormskirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B11D02
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small waste flint, probably from tool knapping. The flint is quite small and of dark brown colour. The surface and edges are still crisp and seem hardly worn at all. Although there may be signs of retouch, there are no traces of patination or further working. Because of its size and doubtful origin it is classed here as waste flake or debitage.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coggeshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B127D5
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small waste flint, probably from tool knapping. The flint is very small and honey brown in colour. The surface is worn and it does not show any sign of patination, retouch or working and as such is classed here as waste flake or debitage.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coggeshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B12C66
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead-alloy weight of double-conical shape with large central perforation. It is decorated on both sides with a pattern of dots and lines in relief. The lines divide each ring-shaped surface in ca. ten crudely designed but equally-sized cells, five of which show a central design of an 'arrow' or 'heart', while the remaining five cells show two dots set above each other vertically. The most common interpretation of this kind of weight is 'spindle whorl' but a much wider range of use for these objects can be envisioned, e.g. for fish traps, net sinkers, hunting nets or traps or t…
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 1st October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormskirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B13A76
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead-alloy weight of double-conical shape with large central perforation. It is very crudely decorated on both sides: while one side shows a crude pattern of criss-crossing lines in relief, the other shows at least one circle of dots around the central perforation. There may be two more circles of dots - one closer to the perforation, the other closer to the rim -, but they are not as clear at the central ring. The most common interpretation of this kind of weight is 'spindle whorl' but a much wider range of use for these objects can be envisioned, e.g. for fish traps, net sin…
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 1st October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormskirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B13FB6
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead-alloy weight of double-conical shape with large central perforation. It is decorated on both sides with a simple ring-and-dot motif: however, whilst there are six ring-and-dots on one side, the other shows only four. The most common interpretation of this kind of weight is 'spindle whorl' but a much wider range of use for these objects can be envisioned, e.g. for fish traps, net sinkers, hunting nets or traps or to weigh down cloth (table cloths, curtains, etc). Similar items found in archaeological contexts have been dated to ca. AD1400-1600.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 1st October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormskirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B144C0
Object type: STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval cast copper-alloy object, possibly a stamp. It is of rounded hourglass shape and cast solid. All surfaces are smooth and plain expect for the top which displays a small circular dent and the bottom ('stamp') which displays three deep, parallel grooves. It seems unlikely that it was some kind of personal stamp, espeically because there is no visible means of suspension, but shape and 'stamp' pattern on the bottom suggest a similar use.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormskirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B2ECA1
Object type: CRUCIFIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy crucifix, loop for suspension broken. The surface is decorated with moulded wreath foliage and the square panel in the centre bears a floral decoration.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burton-in-Lonsdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B35275
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval penny of Kent, Anonymous issue (AD822-23), moneyer: Oba, mint: Canterbury (Naismith C53). Ref: Naismith 2011: plate 31. Ref.: EMC number 1992.7624; SCBI 42 - Southeastern: 624; Metcalf 1988: 138; BLS An 3)
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bury St Edmund', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C1A508
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead plano-convex spindle whorl. The whorl is nicely made, with a different decoration on each side. One side is decorated with several lines criss-crossing each other, resembling Norse runes (although they are not runes!). The other side is decorated with similar lines criss-crossing each other, but in addition, several dots in relief have been inserted between the lines. It has been noted that the weight of a spindle whorl is demonstrative of the thickness of yarn produced, with lighter spindle whorls (3 - 5 grams) being used for spinning cotton and the heavier ones (30 - 35 gr…
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ripon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C1B885
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead plano-convex spindle whorl. The whorl is crudely made and no decoration is visible. It has been noted that the weight of a spindle whorl is demonstrative of the thickness of yarn produced, with lighter spindle whorls (3 - 5 grams) being used for spinning cotton and the heavier ones (30 - 35 grams) for spinning wool (Margeson 1993, page 184). This example weighs 21.7 grams, so it seems likely that it would have been used to spin a lighter material.
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ripon', grid reference and parish protected.