Record ID: NLM-E6E0CA
Object type: PENKNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron and copper alloy penknife fragment. Two iron blades and possibly another implement for a folding knife, retained between fragmentary flat plain copper alloy side plates of thickness 0.7mm by long rivets – whether one or two is now uncertain. A flat oval plate with faint traces of cross-hatching marks the end of the knife handle. Side plates of bone or ivory would have been secured outside the copper plates which remain and would have butted up to the end plate. The object has been exploded by the expansion of its corroding iron blades. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-190…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-50D59B
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron nail fragment. Iron stub of a corroded nail shank with a flat-topped round lead head, possibly intended to retard the corrosion of the iron nail. The lead is patinated. Suggested date: possibly Post-Medieval, 1600-1800 Diameter: 15.9mm, Length: 10.6mm, Weight: 4.44gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2322FB
Object type: CROSSBOW BOLT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron arrowhead. Iron bolt from a crossbow. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600 Length: 42.5mm, Width: 10.6mm, Thickness: 10.1mm, Weight: 7.96gms
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-22F7C5
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron arrowhead. Wrought iron socketed broad-blkaded or general purpose arrow head. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1450 Length: 65.6mm, Width: 26.5mm, Thickness: 8.6mm, Weight: 13.04gms
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-277965
Object type: HECKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron heckle comb. A ferrous metal bar with a central part of width 26mm, thickness 4.7mm and of V-section with narrowed and thickened [to 5mm] projections of length 55mm at either end with a step on their upper edges; and a serrated ‘blade’ with three points per cm extending for 109mm along the lower edge, clasped within a thin [1.8mm] ferrous metal case with a curved upper edge, of which some is probably lost. There is an E-shaped attachment secured at the end of each bar of its E on top of the case, both probably having been attached to a handle [lost]. Either for fibre p…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-10F26D
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron knife. A narrow pointed knife blade, with a pointed tip with angled back, otherwise parallel-sided except where corrosion has spalled away to reveal the metal core. As the presumed proximal [i.e. nearer the handle] end is the same width as the blade a scale tanged form is inferred. The mass suggests good survival of the metal. Suggested date: Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval, 1400-1550 Length: 83mm, Width: 10mm, Thickness (includes rust): 5.3mm, Weight: 10.11gms
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Kelsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-29E5AA
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron sword fragment. The pointed wrought iron tip of a broad-bladed sword, retained within a scabbard chape with a pointed end and an openwork display side with a moulded pattern of interlaced strands discerned between oval holes which are partly blocked by rust extruded from the blade. The back is plainer though a border line appears incised along one descending side. The decoration confers an early medieval appearance on an object whose affinities might more usually lie in the later medieval to early post-medieval periods [see notes below]. Suggested date: Early Medi…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-87A6FD
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron nail fragment. Rectangular-section shank and oval expanded head from a nail, most of shank lost. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1850 Length: 25.9mm, Diameter (head): 19.4mm, Thickness (shank): 7.3mm, Weight: 8.28gms
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-878856
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron nail fragments. Two fragments: a concavo-convex domed nail head with a relict of its shank, the head bent back at right angles to the shank; and a small shank fragment. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1850 Diameter (head): 21.3mm, Length (large fragment): 33.6mm, Combined Weight: 8.18gms
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-876743
Object type: BOLT (FASTENING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron bolt fragment. A thick possibly round-section shank with a thickened and expanded head of width 28.5mm, now broken, and lacking its tip. The mass suggests good survival of the metal core, and hence a probably relatively recent date. Possibly from a burnt or decayed structural timber. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1850 Length: 57.2mm, Thickness (shank): 13.8mm, Weight: 46.99gms
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-874832
Object type: PUNCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible punch. A rectangular-section tapered bar with a thin wedge-shaped end and a probably flat top at the other thicker end. The mass suggests good survival of the metal core, and hence a probably relatively recent date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1850 Length: 75mm, Width: 21.6mm, Thickness: 12.6mm, Weight: 46.26gms
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-49C44B
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron unidentified object fragment. A small tapered wrought iron bar with pointed tip, curved through nearly 90 degrees, possibly to serve as an item of structural ironwork such as a hinge pivot or similar – a wide range of uses might be invoked. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Length: 49.8mm, Height: 22.3mm, Thickness: 8.5mm, Weight: 14.30gms
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-49682C
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron nails. Eight wrought iron nail fragments, two retaining flat oval heads and with shanks of possibly square tapered section, though the flaking of corrosion may confer an inauthentically square section entailing the loss of the actual metal surface. The form of the more complete nails corresponds to Manning’s very common Type 1b/Inchtuthil Type E, which made up 87.3% of the nails from a hoard of 800,000 nails recorded from Inchtuthil fort on Hadrian’s Wall. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410. Length (largest example): 98.5mm, Head Diameter [long axis]: 26mm, Combined Weight…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9DC9E9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron buckle. Rectangular wrought iron buckle frame, with corrosion flaking from areas along with the original metal surface. Suggested date: Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Length: 42.6mm, Height: 37.8mm, Thickness (includes corrosion): 9.1mm, Weight: 16.73gms
Created on: Monday 14th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 14th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-22C969
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron nail. A probably rectangular-section shank, tip lost, with an enlarged head of possibly lozenge form. Expanded overall by corrosion, though the mass indicates good survival of a metal core. Accompanying material is mainly Roman in date, though with traces of later material also present. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1750 Length: 50.4mm, Thickness/Width (shank): 9.6mm, Width (at head): 17mm, Weight: 11.58gms
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-0FA626
Object type: STAPLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron staple. Wrought iron strip, sharply tapered to a point at either end and expanded in the middle, bent to U-shape. Enlarged by rusting. The pointed ends would be driven into timber to anchor a bracket, hinge or pipe in the hollow of the U. The mass indicates good survival of the metal core, and hence a probably relatively recent date, while the preservation of the pointed ends may suggest a structural timber has burnt to release the object in such good condition. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1800 Length: 48.7mm, Width: 28.9mm, Thickness (undoubtedly with corrosion): 10.3mm,…
Created on: Monday 7th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BAA288
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sheathing an iron core, unidentified object fragment. Source record suggests Late Bronze Age to Late Iron Age date; the accompanying database gives this as Late Iron Agel. Suggested date: Late Iron Age 100BC-AD100. Length: 41.2mm, Width: 30.9mm, Thickness: 8.6mm, Weight: 21.69gms
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A36ECC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron unidentified object fragment. A cast concavo-convex conical object, with an indication of a square feature, perhaps lost from this site, and with a conical hollow 23mm deepwithin. Chipped at top and bottom. The finder kindly notes this comes from an area of Roman finds. However, Dr Kevin Leahy considers almost all cast iron objects are likely to date to the later medieval or early post-medieval periods at the earliest. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1900 Diameter: 43.2mm, Height: 37mm, Weight: 156.12gms
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D64525
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron key, large handle, large beard or bit and short shank. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600 Length: 52.6mm, Width: 30.7mm, Thickness: 5.1mm, Weight: 9.98gms
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-02595C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron buckle. Rectangular wrought iron frame, possibly of rounded section, with a pin wrapped around its inner edge. The mass suggests good survival of the metal core.  Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1550-1750 Length: 40.6mm, Height: 49.4mm, Thickness (frame): 7.2mm, Weight: 29.18gms
Created on: Monday 19th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby Cross', grid reference and parish protected.