Record ID: SF-559DC7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) strap end of Thomas Class E, Type 1 dating to the period c. AD 1000 - 1100. It would have comprised of an open-work design, but all that remains is the attachment end. The attachment plate retains three entrally positioned rivet holes. The openwork tongue terminates in an old break and has two semi-circular holes. A more complete example can be found on PAS see SOM-F33A5F. Cf. Thomas, G, 2004, p. 3, no. 24. A similar example is illustrated in (Griffiths et al 2007; 64 no 334) where it was noted the design o…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-558AA5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Medieval strap slide dating to c. AD 1270-1400. The frame is rectangular in cross section, and hexagonal in plan having two edges extending away from vertical arms at a diagonal. The final straight edge a circular pierced hole filled and a flat outer surface which has file marks. The strap slide is a dark green clour. The slide is 18.2mm long, 17.5mm wide, 4.2mm thick and weighs 1.61 grams. with a small rectangular protrusion on the exterior of one long edge which has a slightly squashed tip. The opposite edge is slightly wider and th…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanton St. John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-558764
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Roman rotary key dating to c.AD 43-410 The key has a circular bow set at right angles to a simple rectangular bit, and with a hollow-ended shank. The bow aperture is mushroom or pelta shaped. The bit has a rectangular notch cut out of its forward edge at its junction with the stem, and two angular notches cut out of its lower edge. The handle has a pair of low ribs positioned below the bow and where the stem meets the handle, which continue as slight projections on both sides. Compare with SOM-391D25, HAMP-515186, NMS-AD5C44, …
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgh Le Marsh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-55647D
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stud. Cast domed stud with a light in-turn at its base and with a short [4.6mm] square-section shank protruding from a flat base [tip lost]. Probably from furniture or a box. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410. Height: 15.9mm, Diameter: 16.4mm, Weight: 10.40gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-5561D3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval gilded cast copper-alloy buckle with separate plate, dating from c.AD 1150 - 1450 Single looped oval buckle that is D-shaped in cross-section with an integral ornate sub-circular projection on the outside edge and a separate plate in the form of two circles with three rivets. The buckle loop terminates with rounded knops at the inside edge and has an offset bar. From the outside edge projects a semi-circular lobe ornately decorated with radiating raised lines and a central sub-oval with central pellet and further raised lines radiating…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgh Le Marsh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5540C3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. Cast open-topped thimble or sewing ring with four or five horizontal rows of hand-stamped pits, possibly in a right hand spiral arrangement ascending the wall. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500 Diameter: 19.1mm, Height: 11.3mm, Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 5.40gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-552405
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ceramic building material. Buff reduced fabric with occasional calcareous inclusions [rock] to length 4mm. Handmade roof tile fragment with one straight edge, and with the imprints of a sanded surface on its underside where the green or unfired tile was laid, and either glaze or vitrification traces on the smoothed upper surface. The glaze might suggest this to be part of a ridge tile or roof furniture, which were often glazed; the object is thinner than a plain ceramic roof tile. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1400 Width: 38mm, Thickness: 12.1mm, Weight: 26.29gms
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: NLM-550A69
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy vessel fragment. A shard probably from the everted rim of a cast vessel with incised lines at the top and bottom of its putative rim. These lines may be formed by the lathe finishing of a vessel. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700 Height: 15.9mm, Width: 20.2mm, Thickness: 2.0mm, Weight: 3.25gms
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: GLO-54EBDD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Iron Age cast copper-alloy potin of the Kent Region / Cantiaci, dating to the later 2nd century BC, 'Thurrock MA' type. Obverse: Head of Apollo left; reverse: Bull butting right.  ABC, p. 33, no. 120; BMC 660-666; VA 1406. The two faces are slightly misaligned.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-54EB01
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bell. Cast rumbler bell, of spherical form and one-piece construction, formed by the inward folding and closing of four sub-triangular leaves and with a small oval integral top loop, now broken across a small drilled hole. Traces of gilding appear. Probably for attachment to clothing, or even a jester’s hat given this is an unusually massy example (cf. Egan and Prtichard 1991, fig. 219). Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Height: 25.5mm, Diameter: 21.9mm, Weight: 13.10gms
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: SF-54E330
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy strap-end of 9th Century date. All that remains is the zoomorphic 'mouse/bat' terminal which is broadly triangular in shape. It is worn, with the zoomorphic details not clearly visible.  Length: 16.99mm Width: 8.35mm Weight: 1.51g
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-54C694
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with an uneven surface with off-centre dimple and a flat base; perhaps cast in an open mould suggesting the flat side to have been uppermost at the time of fabrication. Opposed pairs of nicks appear on the flat side. The metal retains a grey tint suggesting its relatively recent date. Though a weight close to this mass was reported from the London waterfront (Egan 1998, table 15) though it was not thought to respect any prevailing standard. This object might alternatively represent one and a half averdepois ounces, perhaps as a homemade weight for the k…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-549D42
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bell. Cast one-piece spherical animal bell, with opposed blowholes in its upper hemisphere and opposed sounding holes linked by a slot in the lower. Incised letters next to the slot may be a maker’s or owner’s mark, possibly reading I G. A pronounced circumferential rib marks the meeting of the two halves; the upper part is surmounted by a rectangular loop. Abraded, with loss of half the lower hemisphere and the clapper. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Height: 34.8mm, Diameter (at mid-rib): 30.3mm, Thickness (wall): 2.3mm, Weight: 25.06gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-547F6C
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy bridle bit, possibly dating to the late Iron Age to the Roman period (circa 100BC to 200AD). The object consists of two bars placed parallel with a central moulded collar which has been worn and thus less prominent. On each end of the bit, one bar has broken off and the other continues a short distance, curving slightly outwards before also ending in a break. The object has a green surface patina, with areas of pitting, and is overall smooth.  It is similar to WMID-8B23B3 and OXON-2C1494, suggesting this object is likely a bridle bit dating fro…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-545F0A
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead musket ball dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1600-1800). The object is sub-spherical is shape and has a couple of pits, but does not appear to have been fired. The musket ball has a diameter of 12.1 mm and weighs 9.1g. The musket ball is an off white, light grey colour, with an even surface patina. There are a large number of similar objects recorded on the PAS database, inlcuding: WAW-6066FE, WMID-191CF4, SUR-A2A4A4; SWYOR-8E3D62; and SWYOR-1BE638.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-5457D1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman silver denarius of Trajan, dating to c.AD 103 - 111. Reece Period 4. COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, reverse type shows Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding caduceus in right hand and cornucopiae in left. Mint of Rome. RIC II Trajan 121 Diameter: 18.5 mm Weight: 2.43 g
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-54544C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with an uneven upper surface on which appear straight lines moulded in bold relief. The lines may represent two separate arrowhead forms or perhaps an untidy monogram including letter forms resembling M and V. On the base – or the top as cast in an open mould - there is a central dimple with a crudely incised triangle around it. Patinated. The combination of relief features, dimple and incised base recur in medieval London (e.g. Egan 1998 fig. 233 no. 993, see also no. 990) where they may respect a medieval standard (ibid. table 15), and were poss…
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: HESH-543D8A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A potential strap fitting, possibly dating to the late Iron Age, but could also be from the late Bronze Age.  The object is hollow, consisting of four sides: a top, bottom and two sides. The top is subrectangular in shapes, with convex outer edges. There are two sub-circular knobs on either side, and there is a central raised ridge. The bottom surface is thinner so the underside of the top surface is visible, also rectangular in shape with slightyl concave outer edges. The front of the object has a sub-circular hole (measuring 18.5mm wide and 7.5mm high)&…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-543BDE
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy probable uni-face token of later Medieval to Post-Medieval date, circa AD 1450-1800. The token is sub-circular in plan and D-shaped in cross section (it has a domed decorative obverse and flat reverse). The obverse consists of a small cross within a concentric circle. These patterns most likely represent powell type 14 (crosses) and powell type 31 (circular geometric). The reverse is flat and undecorated. Excess material surrounds the edges of the object pattern. The token has a light grey coloured patina ac…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-5435BB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible buckle fragment, as kindly suggested by the finder. A small cast loop with a markedly projecting lip in the zoomorphic form of a pointed beast head with prominent sub-triangular eyes or ears upstanding on top and with a grooved or hollowed underside; the putative strap bar is absent. The reddish tint of the metal is a feature often associated with Anglo-Scandinavian metalwork. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000 Length: 20.3mm, Height: 14.7mm, Thickness (at snout): 2.3mm, Weight: 1.25gms
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.