Record ID: SF-43A379
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Roman strip bracelet/armlet terminal of multiple motif type dating to the Roman period, c. 250-410 AD. The fragment is flattened rectangular in cross-section, with a slight curve. The upper surface of the bracelet is decorated with a stamped ring-dot motif, with a double row of dots and triangular grooves, and at the terminal end transverse line of three small incised ring and dots.  Bracelets of this style were in use from the later 3rd to 4th century AD (Crummy 1983, 37). Length: 25.08mm Width: 17.10mm Weig…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-F17EDE
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy bag seal of modern date, c.AD 1850 - 1950. The seal is circular with a sub-rectangular section and is comprised of two discs of metal the rim of which is perforated by two slots/channels running through the diameter to the other side. The holes would have been for wire or textile ligatures which were used to secure a bag. The obverse is stamped with a crowned oval trademark design with banner reading WEBBS and the inscription REGISTERED TRADE MARK stamped around the flan edge. The reverse is stamped with circumferential text reading [WE]BB & SONS/[SALT…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-EC1C20
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Cast flat plain discoid button front with a drawn wire loop brazed to the back which retains traces of a maker’s back stamp. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Diameter: 29mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 1.7mm, Height: 7.8mm, Weight: 4.66gms
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B335AE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount fragment. One end of a cast rectangular plate with a possibly rouletted border and a small ring and dot [diameter 2.5mm] stamped at one end. A rivet of shank diameter 2.2mm with a flattened burred head attached the mount to a flat surface; it is broken across a further rivet hole. Suggested date: Unknown, Late Roman to Medieval, 200-1500 Length: 17.6mm, Height: 12.1mm, Thickness (clear of rivet): 1.3mm, Weight: 1.97gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B20E49
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy clog clasp. Rectangular sheet metal plate with a folded U-shaped tab at one end and a T-shaped or mushroom-shaped tab at the other. An eight-petalled flower motif is stamped centrally within a rouletted or stamped border. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Length: 25.3mm, Width: 13.4mm, Thickness: 0.8mm, Weight: 1.94gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-86CD5B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Medieval copper alloy single looped buckle (meols type 8) and plate dating c. 1250-1450. Only the pin is missing. The frame has a single oval loop with a narrowed and offset bar. The outside edge is expanded with moulded decoration comprising two angled knops flanking two transverse ridges between which is a slightly angled outside edge with central pin notch. The buckle plate plate is formed from a single narrow rectangular copper alloy sheet which is wrapped around the bar with a slot to accommodate the now missing pin, and square cut …
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-8635A9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle chape. Cast rectangular frame retaining two prongs on a rotating bar, with a flat outer edge. The pin bar bears stamped legend: SOLIDE while the back of the expanded edge bears the word: PARIS. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1720-1790 Length: 22.6mm, Height: 20.1mm, Thickness: 1.7mm, Weight: 2.90gms
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-714261
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast copper alloy (1/4 oz) trade weight from the reign of Charles I (1625-1649) or Charles II (1660-1685). The weight is circular in plan, with a raised flat rim around the circumference of the object. The face is stamped with three marks, a crowned C (royal cypher of the King), a sword (Sword of St Paul for City of London Guildhall) and a ewer (London Founders Company, Worshipful Company of Founders). The ewer is at 6 O'clock, the sword at 1 O'clock and the royal cypher at 10 O'clock.  The opposite face of the object is undeco…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-6F07DA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast single looped or D-shaped frame with an expanded and markedly canter outer edge on which curvilinear arrangements of stamped dots appear, and with a narrowed strap bar. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400 Length: 17.1mm, Height: 22.1mm, Thickness: 1.4mm, Weight: 2.41gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-F5254E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Small Long Brooch of Early Medieval date (AD 500-600). The object is composed of a small square plate, with notches removed from the lower corners. The plate is decorated on the upper face with punched ring a dot motifs, in two rows of three, across the upper and lower portions of the plate. On the reverse of the brooch there is a vertical integral lug with a central circular perforation. Protruding from the lower edge of the headplate is an integral bow, which is convex on the outer face, concave on the reverse and D shaped in section. The bow has moulding on t…
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-F2EE1A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast D-shaped or single looped buckle with a half-round collared knop on its outer edge and with a narrowed and offset strap bar with tiny casting ridges at its ends; flat-backed. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Length: 19.7mm, Height: 12.6mm, Thickness: 3.4mm, Weight: 1.43gms
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-71F0DB
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy bag seal of modern date, c.AD 1800 – 1900. The seal is circular in plan with worn edges and a roughly rectangular cross section. It is comprised of a single disc of metal which is perforated by two holes running parallel across its diameter through which wire or textile ligatures would have fitted to secure a bag. Both sides are worn almost smooth although some stamped text can still be seen on one side. A surrounding legend now only reads 'MO[------]'. The central text is similarly illegible, reading 'RU[----]' along with 'KIR…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-618695
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount fragment. Probably die-stamped disc with a broad border or rim bearing a series of juxtaposed rhomboids encloses a field of finely-defined herringbone lines, all similarly oriented. An oval central hole was perhaps enlarged to this form by the rough removal of an object fastened here; about one third is lost to a ragged tear. Alternatively perhaps inset into a flat surface. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1825-1875 Diameter: 50.7mm, Thickness: 1.1mm, Weight: 8.17gms
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-499D78
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy badge. Pressed metal badge of the Highland Light Infantry, described by the Imperial War Museum website as: ‘diamond-cut Star of the Order of the Thistle, an Imperial (King's) crown superimposed on the upper point and having at its centre a French bugle horn, the twist of which encloses the monogram 'HLI'. Below the horn is a small scroll marked 'ASSAYE' and below that again, and over the lower point of the star, an elephant on ground’. A drawn wire loop is brazed to the back as a catch; pin lost. Perhaps a ‘sweetheart brooch’ as…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton Night Soil Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-48616F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible brooch fragment. Pressed metal disc with four central bosses against a textured ground and with a border bearing nested or concentric zig-zags. If not a brooch, possibly a mount ?from furniture. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Diameter: 22.2mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 1.07gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-47D1A5
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible ingot. A small cylindrical pellet, dark in its tint and like a guinea-pig turd in its size and form, with a U-shaped cut-out. Base metal possible ingots of this form have been suggested [by this reporter and few others!] to represent some aspect of a possibly Early Medieval system of bullion exchange, but none of the examples recorded to date have such a cut-out. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Length: 15.5mm, Diameter: 7.8mm, Weight: 2.69gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-46840E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle fragment. Part of the chape from a buckle, possibly with stamped letters or numbers on one side but almost lost to wear, with stub of a single pin. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1660-1720 Length: 20.5mm, Width: 12.0mm, Thickness (at spindle): 3.6mm, Weight: 2.06gms
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scredington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-348D21
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of 20 pieces of grey ceramic vessel, some decorated, of Early Medieval date, AD 400 - 700. They may be from cremation urns. They are all body sherds. The fabric is hard, dark grey throughout, with an irregular texture. There are frequent large (about 1-1.5mm), slightly rounded quartz or quartzite inclusions. Some pieces have poorly sorted similar inclusions of varying sizes. Tehe largest decorated piece has stamped marks in rows. The top line is S shaped stamps. Two horizontal grooves separate the next band of decoration which consists of a stamp which is …
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-A4CD9D
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy object, probably a ferrule, of most likely modern date, perhaps dating to the 18th or 19th century. The ferrule takes the shape of a flat-topped dome, which is circular (although distorted/dented on one side) in plan. The flat top is undecorated, the tapering sides are decorated with a stamped continuous decorative border in a "meander" motif following the entire circumference. The object has developed a shiny mid-green patina over its exterior surface. Its maximum diameter is 13.97mm and height 6.58mm. It weighs 0.87 grams.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-637896
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble fragment. Detached or separate top from a domed thimble with a probably machine-stamped rectilinear grid or lattice on its outer or upper surface. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900 Diameter: 14.5mm, Height: 5.9mm, Thickness (wall): 0.8mm, Weight: 1.15gms
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.