Record ID: NLM-F914C7
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver teaspoon. Cast oval concavo-convex bowl meeting a short stepped part of the stem which is constricted for most of its length, expanding to form a straight-sided spatulate end turned back at its terminal. Stamped hallmarks and maker’s marks appear on the back: a hexagonal panel with a crown and letters RS, Queen Victoria’s head in an oval panel, a lion walking left in a panel with angular edges and basal point, numerals III in a similar panel, and the letter B in Gothic style in a hexagonal panel, possibly indicating a date of 1917 – though this reporter would w…
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-67F15E
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver badge. Cast openwork discoid badge comprising an outer band with legend: * FOR KING AND EMPIRE * SERVICES RENDERED around a crowned Royal monogram GRV for George V (1910-1936). A pin seat is set at the top of the back and a catch at the base. A serial no: 393860 appears stamped on the back. Suggested date: Modern, 1914-1936 Diameter: 32mm, Thickness (Clear of pin gear): 1.2mm, Weight: 7.85gms
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Ewster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D341B4
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver badge. Stamped metal plate depicting a straight-sided heraldic shield within a band where cables support a plaque for a basal legend reading M/S  A/S [standing for Mine Sweeping/ Anti-Submarine], surmounted by a crown with jewelled band and castellated projections made up of the mainsails and aft view of an early 19th-century warship; a historic First Rate like Victory is intended. The shield is charged with a reticulate pattern – in this case apt as it represents a steel net - in which two mines and a trapped shark speared by a marlin spike appear. Notation: RD 83775…
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Humberston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-397613
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver medallion. Oval plate with stamped motif and legend on either side: the obvrse bears the image of Madonna and child with the circumferential legend: N.D. De LA GARDE PRIEZ POUR NOUS [Our Lady of Safety pray for us]. The reverse bears an  image of the basilica and the circumferential legend: SANCTUAIRE DE LA GARDE [sanctuary/church of La Garde], and in much smaller letters: DEPOSE [copyright]. An apical silver loop bears a drawn wire ring as a relict of a suspension chain. The basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde is a principal landmark in Marseilles, France, and was construct…
Created on: Friday 27th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D9387C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver finger ring. Cast plain square section band expanded from the shoulders to form an integrally cast and decorated bezel, the latter comprising two orders of rounded petal-like forms with a rectangular box with rounded ends superimposed. The back is plain save for the definition of the box by a hollow. The ‘petals’ on the bezel each bear a penannular motif in relief while the ‘box’ bears a central disc with rays above and below; one rounded end retains a spot of turquoise enamel while relict white enamel appears in the field. The word SILVER appears stamped on the inner …
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BF1EB1
Object type: FOB
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver fob. Cast fob of low plano-convex section taking the form of a heater-shaped shield within vegetal scrolls and below a low crown, all with cabled and incised embellishments, and retaining a soldered top loop and a ring of diameter 8.3mm clenched around it. The shield bears the letters: E E / B in somewhat crudely rendered capitals. The flat reverse is inscribed: SIXES / 1912 / E.C.D / CAPTAIN, with stamped maker’s mark: WHH in a rectangular stamped panel to the left, and hallmarks [anchor/lion left/III or M] in a similar panel to the right. Suggested date: Modern, 1912 H…
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-261C60
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver finger ring. Flat cast band with an expanded figurative bezel in the form of a lunate belt buckle frame with a double barred fitting to the right. Within the loop an incised figure composed of crescentic stamps in a left-hand spiral arrangement oddly resembles a fossil ammonite, though a floral motif may be intended. Beyond the barred fitting appear two stylised ?punched leaves with berries against a crazed field, limited by a chevron. Beyond the buckle loop to the left and the chevron to the right appear further incised sprays, each with a trilobate or lis-shaped figure at its…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kettlethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B43F64
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver medallion. Die-stamped medal with a small integral loop, bearing the image of a bearded and robed St Christopher crossing a river, supporting himself on a ragged staff, and carrying a small haloed Christ-child on his left shoulder, all enclosed by a facetted border. The reverse bears the stamped legend SILVER in modern capitals. St Christopher is the patron or guardian saint of travellers. Suggested date: Modern, 1950-2000 Diameter: 26.4mm, Thickness: 2.4mm, Weight: 7.74gms
Created on: Wednesday 25th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 25th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirkby on Bain', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-692073
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver and stone pendant. A flat and elongated oval panel of polished grey-brown banded stone retained within a silver frame by a pair of drawn wire loops. Each loop is closed by a blob of solder, and a small oval suspension loop is attached at one end. Blobs of solder also form an asymmetrically distributed series around the frame. The stone is paler on one side and darker on the other; the casual execution of its setting gives the impression of a modern item of handicraft jewellery. Suggested date: Modern, 1975-2015 Length: 46.6mm, Width: 16.3mm, Thickness: 6.7mm, Weight: 6.68gms
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 29th August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-6B61FA
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver badge. An annular sheet metal frame of double thickness retaining the stamped image of the Blackpool Tower (opened 1894) rising above other buildings; hallmarked on reverse: W.H.L./anchor/lion/P, Birmingham assay office, probably for 1939. A pin seat remains on one side of the back, with a scar where a catch plate has been lost on the other. The top of the Tower is lost. Suggested date: Modern. Diameter: 24.9mm, Thickness (overall): 1.3mm, Weight: 1.71gms
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Muckton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B2C333
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver finger ring. Cast flat band with a probably stamped bordered motif of repeated leaves and berries viewed against a lightly sunken ground. The word SILVER is stamped on the inner surface of the band. The band is broken across the lettering. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-2000. Internal diameter: 17.4mm, Band Width: 5.0mm, Band Thickness: 0.5mm, Weight: 1.75gms
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-3CA634
Object type: FOB
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver fob. Openwork plate with a smaller quasi-heraldic plate shaped like a shield set centrally on one face, and a mark suggesting the loss of another from the opposite side. The larger plate is embellished with bilateral incised and stamped motifs including simple vegetal sprays and triangles. A maker's mark TJS appears below a three panel hallmark for the Birmingham assay office, probably to be dated to 1908. Suggested date: Modern. Length: 33.3mm, Width: 25.2mm, Thickness (overall): 2.0mm, Weight: 6.55gms
Created on: Friday 17th June 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alkborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-980B93
Object type: PLATE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver plate. A cast sub-rhomboid openwork plate of thickness 0.9mm with stamped and incised decoration resembling scrolls and leaf forms with buds or thistles, and with a shield-shaped plate fixed to the centre on one side, and a similar plate with notched edges on the other. The attached plates have a yellowish tint contrasting with the larger plate, and may have been gilded. Though seeming intended to receive a motif or legend, both are plain. A stamped hallmark of three panels appears at one end on one side, comprising (left to right), an anchor; a lion walking right, and the lett…
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 14th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scawby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A8858B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. a 'trick' or double-sided Uinted States quarter dollar fragment, as kindly identified by Thomas Whitfield. On one side appears a probably bewigged bust right. On the other side a distinct bust of a man with a slightly hooked nose appears left; not apparently bewigged. The legend - apparently the same on both sides - appears between 11 and 1 O'clock, and reads LIB[--]RTY. Traces of gilding appear on both sides. Thomas comments as follows, correcting an initial identification of the object as a commemorative medallion: 'This item does not relate to the Wilkes and Liberty…
Created on: Monday 6th July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alkborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BF2B17
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver mount fragment. A rectangular fragment of beaten silver sheet with incised upper and lower border lines and a series of vertical folds along its length, with three hallmark stamps at one end, along with the end of a maker's stamp which concludes: [--]?G & Co. The hallmark stamps are an anchor [for Birmingham Assay Office], a lion [Sterling Silver] and a lower case b, possibly signifying a date of 1901. Suggested date: Modern. Length: 56.6mm, Width: 16.3mm, Thickness: 0.2mm, Weight: 1.10gms.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1B0DA4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver and copper alloy brooch. Cast silver square section ring (1.75-2.1mm square) with fastening gear behind comprising a hinge for the pin (lost) and a wire loop opposite, with a pressed copper alloy concavo-convex badge fitted tightly into the ring. The ring has butted ends and may have been crimped about the badge, which was presumably also soldered in place. The badge motif comprises a five petalled floral boss in a wreath on the ground of a finely rayed eight pointed star, probably taken from a military cap badge. The object is a 'sweetheart' brooch incorporating part of a regi…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Claxby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B6CE68
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver clog clasp. Cast oval ended plate with a folded lunate tab at its curved end and a short oval lug at the other, also folded. The back of the plate bears the incised and hatched letters IBL. Hallmarks on the smaller tab comprise a bust right in an oval and a lion left in a sub-rectangular panel. These may suggest a date of 1812-1837 for Birmingham plate, or 1836-1875 for London. Length: 23.2mm, Width: 17.5mm, Thickness: 0.8mm, Weight: 2.69gms.
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-589D71
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver and copper alloy possible pin fragment. Cast elongated shield-shaped concavo-convex plate with engrailed top edge, with the shank of a drawn wire pin attached by a blob of solder on the back. A decorative motif comprises foliage of trilobate leaves against a finely hatched ground, all incised detail executed by hand, within a plain border. The plate concealed the pin. Judy Rudoe of the British Museum kindly corrects an initial identification of the object by this reporter as being a pin of Post-Medieval date (1650-1800). Rather, it is a Victorian tie or cravat pin bearing an iv…
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-1E29A1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Silver, but of greenish hue, coin. Sixpence of George III (1760-1820), milled edge issue of 1819. Obverse description: Bust laureate right. Obverse inscription: GEOR[--]?D [--]BRITT.REX Reverse description: Crowned shield of Arms of England, Scotland, Ireland and Hanover in Garter. Diameter: 19.7mm, Weight: 2.36gms, die axis: 12
Created on: Friday 7th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BD5EE1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Milled sixpence of George III (1760-1820), dated 1816. Obverse description: Bullnecked bust laureate right. Obverse inscription: GEOR.III D:G: BRITT:REX F.D: 1816 Reverse description: Crowned cartouche with Arms of England, Scotland and Ireland, crowned shield with Arms of Hanover at its centre, all within garter. Reverse inscription: H[ONI SOIT QUI ]M[AL Y PENS]E Diameter: 19.5mm, Weight: 2.50gms, die axis: 12
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
Spatial data recorded.