Record ID: NLM-5E3F04
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. A small cast rectangular double looped frame with one outer edge slightly wider than the other, flat-backed, retaining a hair-thin drawn wire pin. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1570-1700 Length: 18.1mm, Height: 14.1mm, Thickness: 2mm, Weight: 1.75gms
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-215892
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy and iron unidentified object fragment. Cast concavo-convex cone with a smooth external surface on one side and hair over the frontlet represented on the other, bearing the stubs of a pair of asymmetrical branching antlers with texture conferred by lines of moulded dots along their beams. An iron fixing pin projects within the concave base and its rusted head appears above the frontlet. A number of similar objects have been reported from the region (e.g. NLM-C8AF8B) and they may derive from table or other ornaments with a venereal [i.e. associated with hunting] theme. Th…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-3D45A6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green patinated copper alloy pin fragment. Top of a moulded Roman hair pin. Suggested date: Roman, 100-300 Length: 25.0mm, Diameter: 5.68mm, Weight: 1.87gms
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-E8FFE4
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver bodkin hair pin. Cast rectangular section shank with one blunt pointed end, expanding towards a broader mid-part with the initials A N in modern style capital letters on one side. Beyond the inscription there is a narrow [2mm] slot of length 11mm, and a drilled hole at a rounded terminal which is capped by a tiny trefoil.  Bent near the midpoint. In view of the material and suspected age of the object it is to be submitted to the Treasure process, ref. 2023 T0439. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Length (as found): 64mm, Width: 4.2mm, Thickness: 1.8mm, Weight:…
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2528F8
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale green copper alloy pin fragment with billeted pattern. Moulded upper end of a Roman hair pin. Suggested date: Roman, 100-300 Length: 27.7mm, Width: 6.3mm, Thickness: 6.3mm, Weight: 2.16gms
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-C2777B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy, light green patina, possible pin. Clearly an item of purpose and definately handmade. MF would compare the form of this object to 12th-century bone hair pins from Castle Acre, Norfolk. Suggested date: Medieval, 1100-1200 Length: 54.1mm, Width: 13.8mm, Thickness/Maximum Diameter: 5.6mm, Weight: 7.83gms
Created on: Monday 11th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-5C3991
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver bodkin fragment, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast rectangular-section pin fragment, broken across a longitudinal slot at one end, and also broken at the other end. Worn traces of finely incised diagonal lines appear on one side. Bent twice. These objects were used as hair or head-dress pins. In view of its material and date this object is to be submitted to the Treasure process, Ref. 2022 T762. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650. Length: 37.1mm, Width: 3.2mm, Thickness: 1.3mm, Weight: 1.81gms
Created on: Friday 24th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ryther', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2992EB
Object type: ROOF FINIAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ceramic roof furniture fragment. A hand-moulded fragment of a decorative finial from the tiled ridge of a roof. Reduced dense fabric with limited oxidisation at the edges of applied features only, and with an external green copper glaze overall. A round tapered socket is assumed to have been oriented vertically. This may have permitted the finial to be secured with a wooden pin, though the void would also permit thorough firing and reduce weight. The object has a vertical conical element with a narrow crest projecting from one side; this crest is now broken but probably followed …
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-0AEC55
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Cast figurative mount with an integrally cast conical fixing pin of diameter 3.1mm and length 5.5mm projecting from behind; the back of this massy casting is lightly hollowed. The subject is the profile of an old man with bald forehead, with hair at the back of the head and extending from there to form a long and luxuriant beard, though perhaps without a moustache of similar character. A crumbly pale green material covers part of the back, and might be a relict fixative. The subject may be Silenus, an attendant of Bacchus. While the fixing method would normally com…
Created on: Friday 26th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 26th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gainsthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-75D69B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin. A probably cast pin with an oval and perhaps misshapen or part-melted head, and a shank distinguished by five well-defined longitudinal flutes, which converge on a sharply pointed end. The prominent fluting may be decorative, but it would also facilitate the use of the object as a piercing tool for fine handicraft work in leather. A Roman date is possible in the light of accompanying finds. The surface is black and shiny overall, which is sometimes a feature of silver or plated objects, though a spot of yellow metal next to an abraded patch suggests the object to be …
Created on: Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-01071A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin. Cast pin with a tapered square-section shank of maximum thickness 3.4mm and an eccentrically positioned and elongated cuboid or polyhedral head with a rounded top; a crude collar appears to be intended, though it does not run all around the base of the head. Bent at right angles below the midpoint of the shank. Though at first sight related to Middle Saxon pins of this form, bent in the same way as many of them, and perhaps for similar use as veil or hair pin, the massy casting and square shank form could both point to either an inferior or deviant manufacturing proc…
Created on: Monday 4th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-CB7717
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy pilgrim badge. Cast discoid badge with a border of a doubled line of pellets framing a facing mask with prominent eyes, nose and lips; an upper hair line appears though the subject appears clean-shaven. A pin seat and the stub of an opposed catch plate appear on the back. Spencer (1998, Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges; Medieval Finds from excavations in London, HMSO, pages 217-221, nos 235-237) implies this could be a souvenir from the shrine of the head of St John the Baptist at Amiens, France, of a style consistent with the period 1350-1450. In this case, the border …
Created on: Friday 21st June 2019
Last updated: Friday 21st June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Ormsby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-55F461
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead unidentified object. A cast ball with deep curvilinear grooves wandering across its surface, and with a possibly drilled blind aperture of diameter 4mm sited between these grooves. The hollow was presumably where this object was attached to another. The metal retains a grey tint, suggesting a relatively recent date. The form resembles that of a massy head from a hair or hat pin, but the shallow socket would not assure its secure attachment. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1900 Diameter: 13.7mm, Height (aligned with hole to base): 12.1mm, Weight: 11.17gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 23rd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyham cum Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-83D66E
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy hair pin. A small cast hair, a slightly elongated knop terminal, separated by a moulded collar from amore markedly elongated and oval expansion with a collar below. The shank is round section and tapers towards the tip [lost]. Possibly a small example of Cool's Group 3 sub-group B. Suggested date: Early Roman, 75-125. Length: 29mm, Diameter: 4.1mm, Weight: 1.20gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7B4F64
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy and iron probable knife. Cast copper alloy object with a shank of rounded section separating expanded ends. One takes the form of an oval face with lentoid eyes with blue enamel insets, and the other is a hand with four fingers on one side and the thumb on the other, with ferrous material possibly adhering. Ferrous material at one end might point to an identification as a knife handle, in which case the conceit may be of the modelled hand grasping the protruding blade [now lost], imitating the grasp of the user. The upper edge of the face is formed by strongly defined …
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-C489B1
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin fragment. Pin, Cool Group 5C. Cast elongated head from a decorated hair pin, with multiple horizontal grooves interspersed with mouldings, two facetted, and with a tiny flat collared top. The shank is lost; the scar where it was suggests a diameter of 3.4mm at its upper end. This must have been made with a lathe, with the facets added by hand thereafter. The type appears throughout the Roman period though is most common in [the most productive] 2nd-century contexts. Given its fine decoration, a use in Romanised coiffure may be suggested. Suggested date: Roman, 100-410…
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 27th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-800CB8
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver pin. Cast domed or hemispherical head with a narrower rectangular section tapering shank of maximum width 2.2mm and thickness 1.8mm with a wedge-shaped end of which the extreme tip is lost. Possibly intended to serve as a mount set into wood or leather, and distinct in its form and inferred function from an accompanying collection of larger hair/veil pins. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 750-850. Length: 15.7mm, Width/Diameter [at head]: 5.0mm, Weight: 0.75gms
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Keelby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A9FA28
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin fragment. Cast pin with a globular head with incised slashes on its upper part and a drilled pit of diameter 1.5mm diameter occupying a flattened top of diameter 3.5mm, and so appearing like a ring-and-dot, all above a collar which separates it from a round section shank of diameter 2.2mm which appears to expand very slightly from the collar to the current end; cf. Flixborough types 131 and 132. The lower shank is lost. The slashed decoration is slightly angled but does not actually travel diagonally across the whole head, and so departs from 'wrythen' convention. Pro…
Created on: Friday 9th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9CB648
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron knife fragment. The wrought iron flat-sided tang of a scale tanged knife with a small part of the V-section blade protruding, and with a pair of rectangular plates attached - how is uncertain, as no fixing points or pins appear. Both plates bear an incised figurative design, of a man on one side and a woman on the other. The decorative work was possibly executed as a one-off piece by a gifted amateur. The male is shown in an effectively tripartite composition, as a three-quarter view from front left. His face occupies the top third: bearded with long straight …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-6309B5
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable ear ring. Sheet metal penannular object with an expanded central part and one pointed end and one hooked sharp narrow end. Eighteen circular stamps, each resembling a small [diameter c.1.2mm] ring-and-dot within a larger [diameter 2.3mm] rounded hollow or pit. The use of ring and dot decoration - particularly noted amongst female dress accessories such as hair pins - is seen as part of a suite of features differentiating later 9th-century Viking from Anglo-Saxon styles, a topic explored by David Haldenby in a series of published and on-line papers. The finder con…
Created on: Thursday 6th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.