Record ID: NLM-044F3F
Object type: BELL SYSTEM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible bell system component. A waisted wheel, mounted on a spindle with screw thread projecting from a flange rising from a flat straight base, and with the wheel flanked by curving arms to guide or constrain a wire passing around it. This might equally come from a domestic fixture employing small pulleys such as an elevating kitchen clothes drier. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 33mm, Width/Diameter: 12.6mm, Height: 16.7mm, Weight: 11.32gms
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Monday 26th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Humberston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C7E7E2
Object type: BELL SYSTEM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bell. Cast open-mouthed bell with a sharply everted flared rim and with two ridges with an intervening gutter running around the central part of its body. These ridges are accompanied by a rouletted line of pits on their outer edges. The rim is also slashed or billeted at its edge. A solid cylindrical projection on the top of the bell bears a transverse drilled hole of diameter 5mm. Stamped letters in capitals of modern style run around the body immediately above the rim: THE PODMORE U[---]ABLE PATENTED. Two spots of rust on the inside of the bell and more widespread rust…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 13th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-242C62
Object type: BELL SYSTEM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bell system fragment, as kindly identified by Kevin Easton, who comments: 'I have always been told these [are] a part of of a servants' bell mechanism...' A probably die-stamped flat Y-shaped object with both arms broken and with a drilled hole at its rounded base. A twisted drawn copper alloy wire loop passes through the hole. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1940 Length: 38.8mm, Width: 31.7mm, Thickness: 2.6mm, Weight: 8.55gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-42EB4E
Object type: BELL SYSTEM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Bell System component, as kindly identified by Kevin Easton, who comments [with reference to another example]: 'I have always been told these [are] a part of of a servants' bell mechanism...'. A cast Y-shaped bar of rectangular section whose arms are both broken at their ends. An expansion at the base of the Y bears a drilled and countersunk hole retaining a twisted loop of drawn wire. Now bent. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1940. Length: 50.7mm, Width: 42.4mm, Thickness: 3mm, Weight: 9.85gms
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scawby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F8DDF5
Object type: BELL SYSTEM
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bell System component, as kindly identified by Kevin Easton, who comments [with reference to another example]: 'I have always been told these [are] a part of of a servants' bell mechanism...'.. Cast rectangular-section Y-shaped object with a countersunk (on both sides) hole of diameter 3.3mm at the base of the Y; a short length of drawn wire of diameter 1.1mm is twisted to occupy this hole. The branched arms are both broken and lightly twisted. Suggested date: Modern, 1850-1950. Length: 41mm, Width: 32.8mm, Weight: 11.66gms.
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.