Record ID: NLM-65E80A
Object type: FOB
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold and glass fob seal, as kindly identified by the finder. A thin casing of reddish gold with a billeted band passing round three sides to afford grip and with a billeted frame for a flat polished opaque black glass gem engraved with the image of a snake passing left through long grass, with the reversed legend above: BEWARE. The base of the casing is dented. Richard Hudson kindly and promptly comments as follows: 'I was just looking through the Finds Database and came across the fob NLM-65E80A. It has been described as depicting a snail in the grass but I’d suggest that th…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AE2C6B
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone rubber. A water-rolled pebble with abundant black flecks to diameter 3mm, with one flattened sub-triangular surface. The object is of a size to fit snugly in the hand and may have been used for a grinding or polishing task using the flat face. The use of a probable Glacial Erratic for such purposes might be ascribed to Prehistory, or indeed any time up to the Viking Age, when the international supply of stone for specialist purposes was revived. Suggested date: Unknown, Neolithic to Early Medieval, 4000BC-AD850 Height: 42.5mm, Width: 49.2mm, Weight: 136.26gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6033AD
Object type: SADDLE QUERN
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained Limestone saddle quern. A neat sub-rectangular block of stepped wedge-shaped profile, worn on its upper surface with a flat base which is indented only at its thicker end. The form is Neolithic, and a saddle quern would be used with a separate cobble grinding stone to grind corn to a coarse flour, and hence marks the advent of arable farming in the area whence it was reported. The small size and flat base – the latter perhaps suggesting use on a flat surface or even a table, which would be a remarkable feature to postulate in a Neolithic settlement – are perhap…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DF9EEA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone polished axehead. Greenstone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 128.9mm, Width: 61.7mm, Thickness: 34.9mm
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-63092B
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone possible counter. A small sub-circular polished pebble, with two opposed faces rubbed and one lightly flattened. Playing pieces such as this are most common from Roman contxts where they were used for board games such as Tabula [backgammon]. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 13.4mm, Thickness: 6.1mm, Weight: 1.33gms
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5F0356
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey-buff flint with very marked patina suggesting a long period of exposure to a calcareous environment; possible polished flint axehead fragment. A small chunk which may preserve the crescentic cutting edge of a polished flint axe; if this is so, the other side of the blade has been pitted by frost fractures and/or other impact damage, and the butt and most of the body of the axe are lost. Suggested date: Early to Mid Neolithic, 4000-2700 BC Length: 36.7mm, Height: 36.9mm, Thickness: 18.7mm, Weight: 21.25gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baumber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-080CD8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a possible vessel or tripod leg. The leg is cylindrical, solid, and has a flat base. The leg has a narrow collar around the base. The upper end is damaged but appears to have been angled to attach to a concave metal vessel.
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 29th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9BFF0E
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Langdale group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 Length: 53.5mm, Width: 37.8mm, Thickness: 15.7mm, Weight: 49.81gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9BE0CA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Langdale Group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 59.6mm, Width: 45.2mm, Thickness: 12.8mm, Weight: 51.07gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-4C99D6
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gritstone perforated stone implement fragment. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 6000-4000 BC Length: 92.4mm, Width: 31.1mm, Thickness: 41.4mm
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-4ABE9C
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Basalt whetstone, hole drilled though its middle, but drilled from both sides. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-1000 Length: 57.4mm, Width: 12.1mm, Thickness: 10.1mm, Weight: 10.74gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-49EC10
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Made from shale, very worn and irregular, smallish hole. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-1000 (source record suggests Medieval).  Diameter: 31.9mm, Thickness: 7.8mm, Weight: 5.71gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-36CF65
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Limestone axe, polished cutting edge, part of surface hacked and left crude. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC length (from drawing]: 153mm
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-CDD795
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Group 6 Langdale stone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC. Length (from drawing): 90mm
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-71316D
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained stone whetstone fragment; uncleaned, so material remains uncertain. One end of a rectangular section hone with all four sides dished by wear, in two opposed faces very heavily so. One proximal corner is rubbed or worn, broken across the other end. The improvised use of sharpening stones is especially typical of the Roman and Early Medieval periods; the former dating may be suggested here by accompanying finds. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Length: 37.9mm, Width: 29.1mm, Thickness: 21.6mm, Weight: 34.07gms
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-60F3A4
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained dense compact reddish-tinted Sandstone whetstone fragment, as kindly suggested by the finder. A sub-rectangular fragment of stone with two or three angled smoothed surfaces, rougher below where it has split along natural bedding planes, probably after its deposition, and broken at one end. The improvised use of hone stones is especially characteristic of the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods; these might come from Glacial Drift, and in this case the stone is not local. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-850 Length: 81mm, Width: 44.3mm, Thickness: 21.5mm…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-925D90
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-green volcanic tufa, polished axe fragment. A fragment from the mid-part of a greenstone polished axe, probably Group 6 from the Langdale axe quarries, Cumbria. A lentoid-section fragment with one chipped, rounded and perhaps re-ground and re-used wider end, and with an angled fracture across its narrower end. Dishing on one side, to length 58mm, suggests a previous repair by polishing of a spalled chip from the side of the axe while it was still serving its primary function. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 75.8mm, Width: 51.7mm, Thickness: 28.3mm, Weight: 13…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AAA29D
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Volcanic tuff polished stone axe fragment, probably Group 6, from the Langdale axe factory, Cumbria. The butt end of a lentoid-section axe-head with chips on both sides, some perhaps arising from use as a battering tool at the broken end. One chip, which remains clear of both ends, appears to have been inflicted and smoothed over before the others, perhaps when the axehead was more complete and undergoing its primary use. Further cracks may also arise from heating and sudden cooling. Abraded. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 62mm, Width: 49.4mm, Thickness: 28.4mm, …
Created on: Thursday 28th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 1st November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-352019
Object type: DISC
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone possible disc fragment. A broken fragment of compact fine-grained Sandstone with a smoothed curving angled edge, broken on most or all of its other sides. Stone discs are occasionally reported from sites of various periods, and some have been interpreted as pot lids, or counters or quoits for games played outdoors. This might equally, of course, be part of a water-smoothed cobble which has broken across its natural bedding planes. Suggested date: Unknown, possibly Iron Age to Medieval, 800 BC–AD 1500 Estimated Diameter (in excess of): 40mm, Thickness (as found): 16mm, Wei…
Created on: Tuesday 31st March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-7F28D1
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic stone axehead or hammerstone, dating from circa 3500-2100 BC. Tear-drop in shape, the axehead was probably made by grinding the stone. Its 'cutting edge' has an irregular curve and one side of the object is much flatter than the other, suggesting it may have been unfinished. The shape of the butt, now uncertain due to damage, has a number of chips, which suggests it may have been used as a hammerstone. Fabricated from igneous rock, its surface is covered with small, irregular indentations but feels relatively smooth, although unpolished. It is reddish brown in colour but t…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holton Le Moor', grid reference and parish protected.