Record ID: NLM-4BA85A
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Quartz plough pebble. About one half of an oval quartz pebble, worn to a flat surface across its putative middle with unidirectional fine scoring marks on the flat surface. Kevin Leahy identifies such objects as plough pebbles, considering they were driven into the mould board of a plough to reduce the erosion of the wood by the heavy wear incurred during the use of a plough, with unidirectional wear patterns arising from this setting. These were first identified in Scandinavia, and their British appearance may signal a minor technological introduction by the Vikings. Suggested date: E…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-2AF0D1
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
‘Plough pebble’ made from a natural quartz on has been worn a worn, polished surface covered in fine striations. This surface is curved in one direction with one edge having a sharper radius, the striations run at 90o to the curve and the surface is flat in this direction. Dimensions: 22.8 x 21.3 x 21.2mm high, Mass 13.98g. Plough pebbles are an interesting phenomenon; finds from Denmark show them to have been used to armour the soles of a wooden ploughs to prevent premature wear. Holes were drilled into the wood into which hard stone pebbles were hammered, as the plough pas…
Created on: Sunday 21st February 2021
Last updated: Sunday 21st February 2021
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Record ID: NLM-7FA566
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and stone whetstone fragment. The broken end of a fine-grained grey layered stone, possibly a slate but resembling a 'phyllite', with a neatly-cut square section groove around its narrower end, and another at right angles to this on either side. The broken end of the hone has been sheathed in lead, which has held its parts together. The hone may have broken across the site of an original suspension hole. There is a probably drilled transverse hole in the end of the lead sheathing which would replace it. This is an unusual example of the repair of a personal hone so it could be co…
Created on: Friday 26th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2017
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Record ID: NLM-6719B0
Object type: LINEN SMOOTHER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained Sandstone cobble linen smoother or muller. A handy fragment knapped from a water-smoothed cobble, with the broken face trimmed flat and smoothed by heavy wear, and the other faces smoothed by handling. The use of both improvised and purpose-made smoothers for the finishing of leather or textiles, and the use of mullers for the grinding of vegetable matter for craft or culinary use, is known through Prehistory to the end of the Early Medieval period. A parallel to this example was excavated from 12th-century deposits at Lurk Lane, Beverley (Armstrong et. al. 1991, page 110…
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NLM-75F102
Object type: INGOT MOULD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brown ferruginous fine grained Sandstone possible ingot mould. Fragment of rock crudely shaped by the cleavage of flakes from its sides and base, probably adapting a naturally formed shape. The upper surface bears an oval depression of length 54mm, width 24mm and depth 24mm; the base of this hollow is slightly paler and duller than other surfaces. Though this cavity might be fortuitously formed, as by a fossil bivalve shell, its regularity may hints at artificial origin or improvement. Such objects were often improvised: a Viking Age example from Lurk Lane, Beverley was made from a fr…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NLM-98D297
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dense Micaceous Stone, dark grey in colour, probably an igneous or metamorphic rock; test with magnet shows it to be non-ferrous (observations kindly offered by Wallace Collyer). Small object of sugarloaf form comprising two bun-shaped pieces of the same material joined, probably naturally. Flattened areas may suggest further similar elements may formerly have been attached to sides and base. The object would lend itself to use as a line-weight, tied at the junction of the two elements, or as a playing piece (as for Hnafetafl or similar board-games requiring the distinction of particu…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dragonby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D3E3E4
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Anglo-Scandinavian schist hone. The dark grey coloured hone is sub-rectangular in plan, though the one end is quite rounded. In cross section the hone is sub-triangular and becomes flatter near the rounded end. The thicker end has a circular perforation. The surface of the hone is uneven with scratches and flaking edges. The length is 41.8mm, the width is 9.5mm, the maximum thickness is 7.0mm and the weight is 4.27g.
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NLM6526
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flat rectangular with a rectangular cross section evidence for a break at one end, so length is unknown, corner broken off at other end. Some ware on the face where tools were sharpened.
Created on: Friday 11th October 2002
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ROXBY CUM RISBY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM94
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a schist whetstone, rounded rectangular section tapering towards end. Truncated.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.