Record ID: NLM-25D3F0
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead bag seal. Cast disc with two opposed pairs of holes in its edge, and bearing stamped European and Cyrillic lettering on both sides, which appear as: NP / F[--] //4 /ACNM/ONOB. This is probably a customs seal for a consignment of goods such as hemp or seed which has passed through a Russian port, possibly St Petersburg. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1850 Diameter: 20.5mm, Thickness: 4.6mm, Weight: 11.20gms
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owston Ferry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FC94A4
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. German Stoneware: off-white fabric with a speckled external glaze bearing a stamped oval panel with a figurative design including two barking dogs, one in a simple structure and one outside it. This sherd was kindly identified by Tina Tabrah of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group. Suggested date: Post-Medieval,1590-1670 Weight: 33.85gms
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owston Ferry', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-E85946
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, two-part, diameter 23mm. Arms of Haarlem: A sword erect between four mullets a cross potent in chief // 2.... As Egan 1994, 110, fig. 43, no. 321. Late 16th - early 18th century. -
Created on: Monday 10th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A5148F
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy domed thimble with an encircling groove above the base in which there are clear signs of folding. The sides are covered by thirty-three vertical rows of eight or nine small round indentations and the dome by six concentric rings of the same. At the very top twelve further indentations fill the space between the innermost ring. Height 19.8mm. Diameter 18.9 - 21mm. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 7th December 2018
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
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Record ID: NLM-8F429F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver possible coin. Milled disc, from its size and mass perhaps a post-medieval shilling issued c.1663-1798. The small stamped letters RR appear in the middle of one side; all original detail is lost to heavy wear. Diameter: 25.9mm, Weight: 4.60gms
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-52E615
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble, squashed mouth and broken body decorated with a spiral of multiple dots on sides and on the dome leaving a blank upper part. Height 20mm. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
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Record ID: NLM-00B286
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight. Discoid weight with the stamped motif of an heraldic shield charged with a sun with eight wavy arms or streams below an open bifoliate crown. The sun in shield motif, perhaps alluding to the sun with streams badge of Edward IV (second reign 1470-1483), was used to check the French ecu au soleil which was issued from 1475, and in 1525 was valued at four English shillings (P.Withers and B.R.Withers 2011, Lions Ships and Angels: the Galata guide to coin weights found in Britain, page 48). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1475-1550. Diameter: 14.4mm, Thickness: 2.…
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wrawby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-EBB4D6
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy bullion weight dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1600-1800). The weight is flat and circular with the inscription D//XII stamped onto both sides on the lower half of each side. There is a a small hole drilled through the object at 9 o'clock on one face, suggesting it may have been re-purposed as a pendant. Similar examples recorded on the PAS database include BH-CE3194 and YORYM-669AE3. Griffiths (2015) comments that 'From the 17th to early 19th century silver coins were often heavily worn or clipped and were therefore traded by weight rather than face…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
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Record ID: NMS-EB36E9
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Squashed and torn medieval copper alloy domed thimble with, above a plain band the base, a continuous spiral of round indentations on the sides and shallow dome, Diameter and height c.19mm. 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-969794
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy shoe buckle consisting of a frame which is similar in size and form to Whitehead 2003, no. 663 but is decorated with five moulded grooves in the centre of the edges and with four on the sides at the spindle housing, a pin and an incomplete (probably stud) chape and an iron spindle. Length and width of frame 20.8 and 15mm. A maker's mark WW is stamped on the chape, to be viewed with the stud downwards. c.1690 - c.1720.
Created on: Saturday 24th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Record ID: NMS-95BD35
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded post-medieval copper alloy hooked book clasp with the proximal end missing. Two rust-filled rivet holes lie near that end and one other nearer the hook. There are three pairs of opposed notches in the parallel sides, two large rounded and one small and V-shaped. Four acorn-shaped punched impressions are visible (there may have been more). A rectangular rust stain on the reverse (30 x 16mm) may be evidence of a spring secured by the single rivet. Extant length 52mm. Width 19.3mm. 16th century.
Created on: Saturday 24th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 24th November 2018
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Record ID: NLM-6B997B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable vessel repair patch. A rectangular fragment of beaten sheet metal which is folded in half, here taken to have clasped a split vessel rim. A pierced fixing hole of diameter 2.3mm appears immediately adjacent to the long edge on one side. Stamped letters and numerals appear on the other: the number 1174 is rendered in heavily seriffed characters, with three or four partially visible letters above: the last is probably L. The impression is of an official, possibly governmental or military, marking of equipment. The style of numbers may point to an early 18th-century …
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-2C1DC1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast and stamped copper-alloy weight dating to the late Medieval period, c. 1400-1500. The weight is circular in plan and has been lathe turned, demonstrating a central circular dimple on its upper face, a double incised concentric groove and a lipped edge. At the centre of the weight close to the dimple is the somewhat worn mark of a stamped bifoliate crown, while the underside of the weight is plain excepting for coarse scratches probably relating to weight correction. Preserved in good condition with an even brownish green patina, it measures 41.12mm in diameter, 2.92mm t…
Created on: Monday 19th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 19th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-EE0F97
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy roman nummus, dating from the reign of Emperor Magnetius. Obverse: bareheaded, draped bust right of emperor. Inscription: illegible. Reverse: Two standing victories facing one another, holding round shield like wreath, inscribed in the centre: VOT/V/M[VL]T [X] with supporting column. Inscription: VIC[TORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE]. Mint: TR[P] (Trier). The overall condition of the coin is fine, though the obverse side has significantly more corrosion than the reverse.
Created on: Friday 16th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 19th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D41CF0
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble, squashed mouth and body decorated with a spiral of multiple dots on sides and on the broken dome. Original diameter c.19mm. Height 23mm. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: BERK-863DE5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Anglo Saxon strap end c. 750 - 950 AD. This example is typical of the Thomas Type A2 Patterned. The top face is decorated with a crudely executed linear incised line border, surrounding randomly placed dot and circle motifs, typical of the age. The rear surface has a similarly scribed border line showing a pair of lines on the long section of the device. There are no apparent fixing holes but there is the hint of it being made by folding over two thin sheets of copper alloy. It is possible that the fixing holes have either been omitted or that the section has been broken…
Created on: Sunday 11th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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Record ID: BERK-8629E7
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Girdle-Hanger c. 400 - 600 AD. Only the distal terminal to the proximal distal corners remain, along with the central remnant of the lower shank. The surface of the remaining shank has two lines of punched triangular stamps, running unevenly down, near the outer edges. The rest of the distal terminal are also decorated with the same triangular punches, again, slightly uneven in their distribution and close to the edges. The surface has a mottled mid-green patina with some ferrous staining.
Created on: Sunday 11th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-2ED5D6
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Squashed, Worn and corroded medieval cast copper alloy thimble, decorated with remains of incised line around mouth and a spiral of dots around the sides and on the flattened dome, worn or absent at the change of angle. Height 19mm. Diameter uncertain. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
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Record ID: SF-16FBD1
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy thimble dating to the late Medieval or early Post-Medieval period, c. 1450-1550. It has a circular basal plan and is domed, demonstrating a pointed tonsured crown. Below this, the walls of the thimble are decorated with c. 13 courses of small hand-stamped dimples, excepting a plain band demarcated by a transverse groove at its base. Preserved in good condition with an even greenish patina, it stands 14.28mm high, c. 16.68mm in diameter at its base, and c. 1.45mm thick at the midpoint of the walls. It weighs 3.51g. A practically identical thimble is recorded…
Created on: Tuesday 6th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-C3D5B4
Object type: HORSE TRAPPING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of horse furniture for the suspension of a pendant, also known as a pendant mount. The object consists of a plate, tapering to the suspension point at the bottom, and attached to the rest of the harness by two semicircular lugs that are formed from an extension of the top part of the plate. The central area features an octofoil design with each petalloid enclosure filled with small circular depressions. The suspension point, or hinge, at the bottom, still has the remains of an iron pin within it, evidenced by the presence of rust. Ashley (2002) has a few examples of a simila…
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2018
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