Record ID: NLM-FBF699
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy badge. Pressed metal cap badge of the Royal Artillery; all detail reversed on the back. A Crown Imperial surmounts a label with the motto UBIQUE, itself above a wheeled cannon left with sponge resting on it to the left, on a plinth, with a label below continuing the motto: QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT. A small tensile clip is concealed behind the crown. Suggested date: Modern, 1910-1920 Width: 61.6mm, Height: 46.7mm, Thickness: 0.5mm, Weight: 10.48gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-E4660E
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible anti-aircraft shell fragment. A shard from the slightly everted rim of a cylindrical object vessel of estimated diameter 80mm with iron staining at the top; shattered at either side and along its lower edge. The pattern of catastrophic damage might point to a shard from an exploded anti-aircraft shell, which would be consistent with its suspected diameter. The iron staining may alternatively indicate this object had a place in an assembly of iron or steel parts intimately associated with or enclosed by a thick [5.5mm] copper alloy casing – a definition which…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-642ECB
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy wire fragment. A fragment of probably drawn thick [diameter 4.1mm] wire bent to S-shape and partly melted and mangled at either end. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 38.7mm, Width: 16.1mm, Thickness: 4.7mm, Weight: 6.00gms
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D3F7D7
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy badge. Cast discoid lapel badge – actually of cross pattee form with recesses between the ends of each pair of adjacent arms and a semi-sircular recess in each angle, and with a crescentic lug for attachment in a buttonhole brazed to the back. The legend: ONE HEART ONE WAY around a W G monogram identifies this as a badge worn by a member of the Wesley Guild, an organisation dedicated to the recruitment and retention of young people to that Nonconformist Christian faith. The legend appears in pale green letters as does the monogram, against white labels and a dark blu…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D0C5D5
Object type: RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy ring. Cast ring of a crisp rectangular section with four symmetrically distributed V-shaped cut-outs on either side – though not with any single pair of opposed cut-outs aligned. The object was probably machine-finished and may itself come from agricultural machinery. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950 Diameter: 28.3mm, Band Width: 5.1mm, Band Thickness: 3.2mm, Weight: 8.88gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Linwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2C4D67
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount, as kindly identified by the finder. A small pressed metal plate with a leaf-shape flanked by pellets nested in spirals and with a row of pellets above; all details appearing reversed on the back. Green colorant, perhaps enamel or paint, appears on the protruding rounded parts of the motif. Presumably this was set in to a flat surface. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1920 Length: 14mm, Width: 11mm, Thickness: 0.8mm, Weight: 0.45gms
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-19CE1A
Object type: WASHER
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy washer. Cast discoid plate with central hole of diameter 4.8mm, Suggested date: Modern, 1900-2000 Diameter: 15.2mm, Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 1.78gms
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9B37F8
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy badge. Cast openwork uniform or sweetheart badge of a Canadian battalion. A central maple leaf is surrounded by a ribbon bearing the legend CANADIAN FO[RESTRY BATT]ALION below a Crown Imperial and flanked by maple trees; the number 238 appears below the maple leaf. Vegetal swags below frame a shield charged with crossed woodsman’s axes. Red enamel remains in the cushion of the crown and blue enamel serves as a field for the ribbon. Rust stains on the back mark the loss of a steel pin passing between an integrally cast seat and an applied drawn wire catch. The 238th B…
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-5FB7A0
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy anti-aircraft shrapnel fragment. Cast fragment of the casing of an anti-aircraft shell with grooves on either side running in opposite directions so as to maximise fragmentation; torn by explosive force. This shell will have been fired by one of the numerous heavy anti-aircraft batteries tasked with the defence of the Humber region. Suggested date: Modern, 1939-1945 Width: 50.3mm, Height: 23.2mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 22.18gms
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holton le Clay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-499D78
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy badge. Pressed metal badge of the Highland Light Infantry, described by the Imperial War Museum website as: ‘diamond-cut Star of the Order of the Thistle, an Imperial (King's) crown superimposed on the upper point and having at its centre a French bugle horn, the twist of which encloses the monogram 'HLI'. Below the horn is a small scroll marked 'ASSAYE' and below that again, and over the lower point of the star, an elephant on ground’. A drawn wire loop is brazed to the back as a catch; pin lost. Perhaps a ‘sweetheart brooch’ as…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton Night Soil Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-131C5E
Object type: WATCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy watch fragment. Cast bevelled ring with traces of gilding, here taken to be the frame for a watch glass. The size may suggest a wristwatch and hence a recent date. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Diameter: 28mm, Band Width: 2.9mm, Band Thickness: 1.8mm, Weight: 2.24gms
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-12AD7A
Object type: WATCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy wristwatch strap fragment. Three links of a chain, each link [of length 18.2mm and width 11mm] comprising a hollow rectangular plate with paired flaps bent inwards on the underside to clasp one side of a sub-rectangular wire loop, the other side of the wire being clasped by the equivalent flaps on the next link. This might be apt to the construction of a wristwatch strap or similar fitting rather than to mechanical usage. The wristwatch came into widespread use in the 20th century. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 41.4mm, Width: 19mm, Thickness (overall): 4.8mm, …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-69F1A3
Object type: WEDGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy wedge. Cast rectangular section wedge, tapered towards its thinner broken end and with traces of hammering at its broad end which has left it slightly burred. A hole of diameter 3.3mm is drilled through the broad end and a short narrow cut extends vertically from this hole on either side, perhaps suggesting provision for its suspension on a thin cord. The crisp arises point to a recent date. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 56.5mm, Width: 18mm, Thickness: 7.7mm, Weight: 29.64gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gainsthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B6D5DD
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nail head. Pressed or stamped plate in the form of a cross potent with a pellet and triangle in each angle, with billeted stands along the cross arms, these details all appearing reversed on the back. The head of a ‘fancy nail’, whose decorative heads followed a number of quasi-heraldic motifs. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1910 Length: 21.3mm, Width: 22.9mm, Thickness: 0.3mm, Weight: 0.81gms
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B97343
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brown patinated copper alloy finger ring. Large finger ring, incised decoration, stamped inside: PERSIAN ____. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950 Diameter: 25.5mm, Height: 8.8mm, Thickness: 2.3mm, Weight: 9.91gms
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-252DCC
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Small hollow discoid uniform button of composite construction, probably a General Service button of the First World War. The pressed front depicts the Royal Arms; a drawn wire loop passes into a central hollow on a back plate. Suggested date: Modern, 1914-1920 Diameter: 17.1mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 5.1mm, Weight: 2.63gms
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyham cum Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FA5C91
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pin. Probably die-stamped head of a pin with a socket to receive a steel or wire shank [lost]. The round top is patterned with a central cross-hatched field confined by plain bars which themselves are flanked by horizontal lines, all probably stamped (cf. 'fancy nails' of the early 20th century). There is a plain rim and a constricted lower part towards the socket. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1920 Height: 10.1mm, Diameter: 13mm, Weight: 1.13gms
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baumber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F9A507
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A small oval-ended trough of probably pressed metal with a scalloped edge and traces of white metal plating externally. The thickness tends to suggest compliance with metric measurement on the part of the manufacturer, while there is a vague resemblance to fittings connected with electrical supply. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 31.6mm, Width: 13.2mm, Height: 7mm, Thickness (wall): 1mm, Weight: 3.81gms
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F95913
Object type: DOOR FITTING
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy door fitting. Hollow doorknob of flattened spherical form, hollow and squashed flat on its front. The thickness tends to suggest compliance with metric measurement on the part of the manufacturer. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950 Diameter: 38.6mm, Height: 18.4mm, Thickness (wall): 1mm, Weight: 15.43gms
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F8EC16
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Sheet metal object cut into a cross potent form with a fixing hole of diameter 2.6mm in each arm, the longer foot is folded. Torn at one from by the rough removal of the mount from its setting. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Length: 47.8mm, Width: 35mm, Thickness: 0.5mm, Weight: 3.48gms
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.