Record ID: IOW-5E734E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Modern cast iron Liverpool driving bit, c.AD 1850-1950. This is the upper part of a Liverpool driving bit, including the attachment loop where the bridle leather attaches and the top half of the circular bit ring. At the top of this circular bit (where it meets the attachment loop) there is the stub of the central leg (also known as an upright), which would run along the side of the horse's mouth and hold the bit in place. The use of iron for this bit helps to date it to the late 19th century-early 20th century, rather than as a purely modern bridle fitting.
Created on: Monday 4th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-E07F8D
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron knife of probable Post Medieval date (c. AD 1500-1700). It is missing hte tip of the blade. The iron blade has a straight back, with a projecting triangular tang that is rectangular in cross section. The blade curves abruptly downward away from the tang before curving to form the cutting edge of the blade. The blade is traingular is corss section with a hammered edge. The tip of the blade has broken away leaving a worn break. The object is heavily corroded.  The knife is 135.8mm long, 20.5mm wide, 8.87mm thick and 46.6g.  Ir…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th September 2023
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Record ID: CORN-CAB73B
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular domed mount made from iron, probably a bridle boss dating to c. AD1350 -1850  The mount is circular in form and measures 67.41mm in diameter. It has a central dome which measures 37.96mm in diameter and is 11.37mm tall. Around the dome there are three evenly spaced but rather large and crudely made iron rivets. . On the reverse, corroded iron spreads from the rivets across the centre which makes the reverse now flat.  Measurements: Height: 24.42 mm; Weight: 145.68 g; Diameter: 67.41 mm There are several similar b…
Created on: Monday 28th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
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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: WAW-603136
Object type: HOB NAIL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron nail, probably a hob nail of Roman date (c. AD 43-410). The object would have had a domed head and a shank with a sub-square cross section that terminates in a point. Dimensions. Length (head): 6.06mm. Width (head): 4.86mm. Height: 12.13mm. Weight: 0.53g.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: WAW-5FF90E
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron nail of possible Post Medieval date (c. AD 1500-1800). The nail is handmade from wrought iron and has a sub-oval head (13.28mm long, 10.38mm wide) and a shank that has a rectangular cross section that tapers from 8.89mm long and 6.12mm wide at the top to a wedge shaped end. Dimensions. Length (head): 13.28mm. Width (head): 10.38mm. Height: 17.27mm. Weight: 2.73g.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: WMID-5CC8B0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron fragment of an axe-shaped mount, dating to the Early Medieval period, circa AD 580-650.  The object consists of an axe-shaped fragment from a mount terminal. The obverse is decorated with an axe shaped border made from a copper-alloy strip. Within the border is a decorative pattern in light relief, consisting of style II, animal art. The pattern has been gilded. The reverse and sides of the object are undecorated and covered in orange corrosive material. No attachements are on the reverse.  The object measures 28.1mm in length and 43.5mm in width…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2023
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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
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Record ID: SUR-33BC10
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large cast iron key of post medieval date. The bit is rectangular with two clefts on each end. The stem has a circular cross section and is hollow. The bow is openwork and comprises a pair of circular openings with a rearward projecting rectangular terminal at the centre, which has small flanking ridges and a flat ridged bar at the end. There is a collar at the junction between bow and stem.
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2023
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Record ID: BH-F8ACD4
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast white metal coated iron ingot of uncertain function and date, possibly the Early Medieval to Medieval periods. The object is an obliquely truncated cylinder in plan and an obliquely truncated rectangle in cross-section.  The base of the ingot has rounded edges and is slightly concave.  The surfaces are light grey in colour, this being an applied white metal coating. In areas this has corroded there is iron corrosion product.   Dimensions (mm):  length 18.57, diameter 10.82. Weight: 9.19g
Created on: Friday 18th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-F38E76
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete spur rowel dating to the medieval to post medieval period (c.AD 1300-1600). The rowel is in the form of a 7-pointed star and each projection is flattened. In the centre is a separate iron rivet which is surrounded on both faces of the rowel by heavy corrosion products. The main object has a dark green patina, and the iron corrosion is a rusted orange / brown. Similar examples are illustrated in Read (2001: 41 & 66; refs. 347, 505-507). Similar examples can be found in the database e.g. WILT-433916 
Created on: Friday 18th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-9FA1C6
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hand-forged Medieval to Post Medieval wrought iron Axehead dating from about AD 1250 - 1800. The axehead has a near straight top-edge with slight curve to the end of the blade, and a slight bulge at the socket. The underside angles from the heel of the blade to the handle to form a tapering triangular shape. It starts to curve down at the socket, but damage here makes it impossible to suggest the extent of any possible "beard". The socket is triangulat in plan with a thickened butt-end and an overlapping wrought joint. The material appears to be wrought …
Created on: Monday 14th August 2023
Last updated: Sunday 20th August 2023
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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
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Record ID: SUSS-243DB2
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron jew's harp dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1500-1800). The harp has a pen-annular head from the base of which extend the straight arms, are extremely worn and corroded but are broadly lozenge-shaped in cross-section. On one side of the head is a small depression; the rabbet which held the iron tongue, now missing.   Measurements: length: 52.2mm; width at head: 30.02mm; thickness at head: 8.13mm and weight: 13.48g.  Jews harps or jews trumps have been around for many centuries,with a wide geographical distributi…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
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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: LANCUM-210A30
Object type: VEHICLE FITTING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Rochdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron object. The pot is round and the sides curve inwards slightly at the top, although there is no lip on it. It has a moulded in square base, and this square is seen inside the bottom of the pot. Thanks are extended to Bill, Volunteer at Shropshire and Herefordshire, for identifying this as a hub cap from a vintage tractor, the square shape was for tightening and untighening it. Dimensions: 66mm diameter and 55mm high, and weights 52g
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Smithy Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.