Record ID: LANCUM-1E88EA
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Probably a complete copper alloy Door Knob Spear Butt of Roman or Early Medieval date, circa 200-300 AD or 500 to 600AD. The object comprises a hollow shaft, tapering slightly from the open end before expanding where it joins the door knob terminal. The terminal is bulbous and also hollow and it has a rounded base. The metal is pitted and mottled with a mid-brownish patina. The length is 54mm, the width is 44mm diameter of base 40mm and the weight 114.75g.
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-48D655
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy object that could be an incomplete polyhedral multi-faceted pin Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) hair pin dating to the late 8th to the early 10th century AD or could relate to a later more modern object. It has a cuboid-faceted head very corroded and no decoration is discernible. Where the head joins the shaft there appears to be a collar consisting of a circumferential raised line. The shaft is not circular in cross-section and appears to have a square section which could indicate that it is later. The length is 18mm, the width is 9mm and the weight 2.18g.
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-05D543
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Venetian Soldino (1501-1522) Leonardo Lauredan, Doge, St. Mark of Venice. The diameter is 12mm.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THIRSK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AB68B4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy binding ring or finger-ring that appears to be post-medieval, probably dating from c1500 to c1700 AD. A soldered joint can just be seen on the decorated hoop. See also YORYM-DBA0B2, NLM-4998F2, SWYOR-547880. The diameter is 21mm and the weight 1.94g. The diameter is 21mm and the weight 1.94g.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-FF8557
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy shoe clasp possibly for a clog. The clasp is made from a sub-rectangular sheet metal plate with a T-shaped lug or latchet at its curved end and a U-shaped lug at the other, straight, end. Probably dating from the post medieval to early modern period, i.e. c. AD1700-1900AD. The length is 23mm, the width is 17mm and the weight 1.74g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-D79453
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age/Late Iron Age copper ring dating between 1150BC-100AD. The object is probably part of horse harness furniture possibly used for reins (terret ring). The diameter is 28mm.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0B60F3
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze/Early Iron Age copper ring dating between 1150-300BC. The object is probably part of horse trappings possibly used for reins (terret ring). It is circular in shape with a round section. The diameter is 40mm and the weight 27.80g.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-06AA41
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy ring probably Late Bronze Age dating 1000 to 800BC. It is circular in shape with a defined circumferential ridge running around the centre and flattened faces above and below. The interior surface exhibits scratch or wear marks which appear to have occurred during use. The ring has a pitted dark brown patina with patches of green. The length is 30mm, and the width is 30mm, the thickness is 5.5mm and the weight is 11.32g. Associated with, LANCUM-0633E7, LANCUM-0788A0, LANCUM-060825.jpg, LANCUM-064172 and LANCUM-069462and LANCUM-069462. Similar to WILT-091140, LANCUM-672196 …
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-FF5521
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Two amorphic piece of copper alloy slag. Found in an area with Bronze Age and Roman artefacts. The surface is characterised by lumps and hollows and has a tin element is indicated relating to bronze working. The slag has a good deep green patina, similar to that seen on some local Bronze Age metalwork, so it may date from this period. If this lump of slag is indeed Bronze Age, it is interesting that it has survived and was not re-melted. Fragments of casting waste like this one are hard to date. Scientific analysis of the elemental composition of the copper alloy would allow a more acc…
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-545A51
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age collared urn consisting of twenty two body sherds. The fabric is tempered possibly with fine sand with some larger pieces of grog, flint and other stone (up to 3mm). Very little abrasion. The fabric is local clay fired on a bonfire with a flint temper. The sherds vary in size from between 55mm in length and 40mm wide and are 4mm thick. The sherds eroded out of a cliff section at Beckfoot Roman cemetery and were probably accompanied by a fragment of an incense cup. This suggests votive deposition and a previously unknown Bronze Age phase to the cemetery, with re-use in the R…
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BECKFOOT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-901E04
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper-alloy trade weight dating c.1780 - 1825. The weight is circular with a raised rim on the top. The bottom surface is flat. The top surface of the weight has been stamped with two concentric circles, a crowned GR. Biggs (1992:54-56) suggests that the crowned GR' stamp was used widely on weights that were made outside major centres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The diameter is 31mm.and the weight 25.06g. Biggs, N. , 1992 English Weights: An illustrated survey White House Publications
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-AB6320
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete ring-headed Late Iron Age to early Roman linch pin 100BC - 100AD. The loop is circular in plan and section. A bulbous collar is present projecting from one edge of the fitting with a worn base. The centralsection is iron which is now corroded and it terminates in a copper alloy lip-type. The length is 137mm, width is 24mm thickness 14mm, the width of the loop is 37mm, the hole is 20mm, and the weight 163.85g. Similar on the database to YORYM-72DC52 and BERK-6F69D7.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-63E6EE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sub-rectangular shoe or hat buckle with a drilled frame for separate spindle dating 1660-1720 AD. The buckle has bevelled edges on internal corners and moulded transverse grooves over each spindle. Similar on the database to HESH-567043, CORN-D08D15 and LANCUM-A201D4 The length is 45mm, the width is 35mm thickness and the weight 12.17g.
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RIPON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B74AE8
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver cuff-link element.It is octagonal with a slightly convex front and concave reverse with down turned edges creating a border around the back of the cuff link. The front is incised with the letter 'E' within a double-line frame, with short engraved lines suggesting a cross behind the E. An oval-sectioned bar that forms a loop is soldered to the centre of the back forming a rough D shape.  Similar cuff link elements have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example see finds: CORN-C48BF3, IOW-6D3E94; IOW-4A7C02; IOW-942384;…
Created on: Monday 11th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-6F19D5
Object type: PYX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small round container that is a silver pyx used to protect and transport the Blessed Sacrament. Pyx in Latin is pyxis is a transliteration of the Greek: πυξί meaning box-wood receptacle, these developed into small round container made of wood or silver used in the Catholic, Old Catholic and Anglican Churches to carry the consecrated host (Eucharist), to the sick or those otherwise unable to come to a church in order to receive Holy Communion. They were also associated with recusant Catholicism in post-Reformation England at the turn of the seventeenth century. The obv…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-F589D5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold post-medieval two-piece swivel glove ring dating from the 16th to 18th century AD. The bezel is circular with a raised inner and outer border. The centre of the ring (the female element) swivels and the front depicts a stylised fleur-de-lys interlaced terminating in two stars weaving between the letters +E M+ (reversed, so that they would read EM on an impression). The reverse of the swivel component depicts an incised leaping greyhound. The shoulders of the ring are arched in the style of raised floriated columns with incised horizontal lines filled with traces of…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-69FE85
Object type: MEDAL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual lead alloy mount of unknown date and period it appears to be in the form a medal decorated with a swastika. The stamped cross is more consistent with a later Medieval style, suggesting it dates to the 12th to 16th Centuries AD. The pendant is a mid grey in colour, with an even surface patina. A direct parallel for this find has not been located at the time of recording. The swastika, the 'crux gammatica' (a cross formed from 4 Greek capital gamma characters) was widely used long before the Christian period, possibly in pagan religious contexts. It did however continu…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-071F18
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint scraper on debitage, reused probably late Bronze Age to early Iron Age. The tool constitues a probable waste flake that was retouched in period to form a scraper & retouched in a later period to form an expedient cutting edge. Dates to between c2700 and c1600 BC, with probable date range of reuse between c1000 and c400 BC. The length is 31mm, the width is 25mm and the weight 2.44g.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-CA227C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Early Medieval plate brooch probably dating to the ninth century and of Continental, Carolingian, origin.. The plate is rectangular in shape, with a solid raised border running around the edge. The brooch is divided into three panels depicting a wolf flanked by two birds. On the inside of the panels is blue enamel with the surface of the light green copper alloy patina showing through. On the reverse Is the remains of the attachment. On one side there is the catchplate, this is rectangular in shape with the outer edge curved over to hold the now missing…
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-AC44F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver denarius of Faustina I AD141+. Bust right. DIVA FAVSTINA. AETERNITAS (Juno). RIC 3 (Antoninus), 345. The diameter is 16mm and the weight is 2.64g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BECKFOOT', grid reference and parish protected.