Record ID: LIN-1BB8ED
Object type: CLENCH NAIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable copper-alloy clench nail probably dating to the medieval to post-medieval period c.AD 1150-1600. The nail has a triangular shank that tapers to a truncated point. At the head end there is a circular collar, integral to the shank. Above the collar, the nail extends into a circular concave rove, possibly secured to the shank by a rivet with a rounded head (although this may be a continuation of the shaft). The rove is broken. The underside of the rove has lines which follow the circumference. Length 26.74 mm, length of shank 20.74mm width of shank at neck11.49 mm, …
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nettleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-06CAC7
Object type: CLENCH NAIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy clench bolt. Cast shank of 6.5mm square, passing through a rectangular rove of length 26mm, width 19.1mm and thickness 2.7mm with bevelled ends. The head of the bolt is rounded and of diametr4er 11mm where it passes through the rove. The other end is burred. Though most famously associated with early medieval shipbuilding, iron clench bolts saw continuing use through the Middle Ages for shipbuilding - as, for example, with fragments of a 15th-century boat reused as waterside revetment for the Clitherow plot on Hull's High Street, now displayed at the Hull and East Riding …
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2FC690
Object type: CLENCH NAIL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron clench bolt. Wrought iron bolt with a diamond shaped head and a shank of indeterminate section which passes through a diamond-shaped rove - which is rove and which head is uncertain; one of these end plates is chipped. The clench bolt was used in ship-building from the 7th century to the 15th, and also for domestic purposes; clench bolts might also appear where ship timber has been reused. The context here may suggest an Early Medieval date, 850-950. Length (overall): 27.5mm, Width (rove or head): 31.8mm, Weight: 20.20gms.
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Torksey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7DFD57
Object type: CLENCH NAIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible clench nail fragment. Wrought iron diamond-shaped rove with a probably rectangular-section shank running up to it. This may alternatively be a diamond-headed handmade nail used in a similar setting, but the rhomboid form more usually denotes a rove. Though associated with early boats, the clench nail was used more widely for fastening wooden structural elements. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500. Length (rove): 37.7mm, Width: 31.1mm, Weight: 55.30gms.
Created on: Monday 21st December 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-70F700
Object type: CLENCH NAIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Clench bolt fragment. Diamond shaped rove and shank of a clench bolt; the shank is of rectangular section. Though associated with Early Medieval shipbuilding, clench bolts were also used for building and household works in the Anglo-Scandinavian areas of the country, and for shipbuilding as late as the 15th century, as shown by excavated fragments of ship timber from Hull. Suggested date: Medieval, 1000-1500. Length: 58mm, Width (rove) 45.9mm, Length (rove): 53mm, Weight: 98.9gms.
Created on: Monday 20th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 8th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixborough', grid reference and parish protected.