Record ID: NLM-E6E0CA
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron and copper alloy penknife fragment. Two iron blades and possibly another implement for a folding knife, retained between fragmentary flat plain copper alloy side plates of thickness 0.7mm by long rivets – whether one or two is now uncertain. A flat oval plate with faint traces of cross-hatching marks the end of the knife handle. Side plates of bone or ivory would have been secured outside the copper plates which remain and would have butted up to the end plate. The object has been exploded by the expansion of its corroding iron blades. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-190…
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.

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Record ID: NMS-E39636
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron strip, perhaps the blade from a knife. It is 120mm long and one end is encased in delaminating corrosion. Away from this end, it is generally around 19mm wide, with one edge straight and 3mm thick, tapering to the other edge which may represent the cutting edge. The end without the corrosion layers has the cutting edge curving up to meet the back of the blade in a rounded point. The corroded end is broken and has no evidence of a whittle tang. The strip is now bent at a slight angle about halfway along its length. It weighs 45.0g. The identification as a knife is very t…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-E36935
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neatly circular iron ring, 51.5mm in diameter. In cross-section it is circular, 8mm in diameter. It weighs 31.8g. The ring was found close to several early Anglo-Saxon objects and is likely also to be of that date. It may have been used as a suspension ring.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-50D59B
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron nail fragment. Iron stub of a corroded nail shank with a flat-topped round lead head, possibly intended to retard the corrosion of the iron nail. The lead is patinated. Suggested date: possibly Post-Medieval, 1600-1800 Diameter: 15.9mm, Length: 10.6mm, Weight: 4.44gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-C0FC32
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete terminal from the handle of a post medieval scale tang knife. The terminal is rounded. One side of the tang retains a portion of a copper alloy sheet metal facing with two copper alloy rivets with silver plated heads. The rivet at the front end is noticeably off centre. The other side of the handle has extensive rusted iron concretion.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-BC2A22
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A series of four horseshoes found from the same field Horse shoe 1 is 160m long, 175mm wide, 18.2mm thick and weighs 633 grams It retains nails across its length and one raised D-shape lip on its right side Horse shoe 2 is 150m long, 155mm wide, 8mm thick and weighs 478 grams. It retains nails across its length two of which form a staple Horse shoe 3 is 135m long, 160mm wide, 14.6mm thick and weighs 869 grams It retains nails across its length and one raised D-shape lip its apex Horse shoe 4 is 155m long, 160mm wide, 10.8mm thick and wei…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ewelme CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2D58FB
Object type: CHAPE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an iron probable late medieval to early post-medieval scabbard chape. Only the lower end of the object survives. This is a cast, hollow flat triangular chape with a jagged break around its upper edge and a flattened globular terminal projecting from its lower end. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. Scabbard chapes are more commonly made from sheet metal, but cast examples in copper alloy and iron are known. Compare PAS records: PUBLIC-03A532, LON-0444D0 and WMID-C808A3. It seems likely to be of late medieval to early post-medieval date. Le…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AB720F
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval Iron axehead, dating to c.AD 1000 - 1500.  The axehead has a triangular or 'wedge'- shaped blade with a slight curve to the cutting edge; it projects downwards more than it projects upwards from the central body of the axe. The socket is filled with corrosion but is triangular in shape with a triangular wing surviving on one side, extending downwards.  When viewed from the rear, the butt of the axe appears rectangular. The metal surface is heavily corroded and laminated.  Measurements: Length: 210 mm Width at cutting edge: 167 mm Thickness at so…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-2E1A27
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast Iron knife of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. It is an early Anglo-Saxon Envision Type A knife, dating to the period c.AD450-650. Its relatively small size suggests it was used in textile manufacture. It has a worn cutting edge at the base of the blade. The preservation suggests it was deposited in a grave. The blade is triangular in cross-section, and appears to be complete (Dr Denis Sami, pers. Com.).The tang is broadly rectangular in cross-section and projects from the blade close to the back edge. It tapers in width and terminates in an old break aft…
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ardleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-05105E
Object type: SLAG
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five fragments of bloomery slag that appear to have been produced from the tapping process. All display smooth molten ridges and channels on the face characteristic of runs of solidified molten taped slag. Where broken the core is seen to be dense but filled with abundant, small bubbles and cavities. These fragments measure 1, 35mm by 33mm 2, 50mm by 35mm 3, 70mm by 50mm 4, 42mm by 30mm 5, 115mm, by 80mm
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.