Record ID: NLM-739C96
Object type: SCYTHE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible scythe fragment. A wrought iron blade with straight parallel sides and a curved end where back meets cutting edge. At the proximal end a concavo-convex ridge of maximum width 23mm tapers for a length of 100mm, indicating an open a socket for fixing the blade to a separate protruding part of the haft. The object is broken neatly at the wider end of this feature, though for 33mm inwards from the broken end there are indications that the sides of the iron plate had been bent sharply inwards, again presumably to grip the haft. The further end of the cutting edge is slightly …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyham cum Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-47D992
Object type: SCYTHE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible scythe fragment. The curved tip from a broad straight wrought iron blade of V section. The size and form are both similar to that of an Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian scythe blade reported by David Haldenby from Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire. The early scythe had a short wide straight blade rather than the long curved version familiar from medieval and later pictorial sources. The mass of this fragment suggests the good survival of metal, perhaps - if the suggested identification is accepted - arising from its high quality to begin with. Suggested date: Early Medie…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2017
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keelby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BBDE8D
Object type: SCYTHE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron possible scythe fragment. Tang of an implement with a parallel-sided blade (now mostly lost). The tang is bent at one end, at right angles to the alignment of the putative blade. The blade is lost at the end of a hammered expansion of the tang, with one edge, perhaps the end of a cutting edge, slightly thinner than the other. The angled tang would be inappropriate for a knife or tool but is known amongst scythes of early medieval date, as from Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire, whose blades were shorter and straighter than more recent and familiar forms. Suggested date: possibly E…
Created on: Wednesday 30th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 25th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-F821A3
Object type: SCYTHE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian iron scythe 8th/12th century AD part of an extensive collection from a known settlement. Side laid from top. The length is 379mm, width 41.7mm max, thickness of back of blade 4.6mm, length of tang 82.8mm, thickness of the tang is 8.5mm.
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEA GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F80DD5
Object type: SCYTHE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian iron scythe 8th/12th century part of an extensive collection from a known settlement. Side laid from top. The length is 397mm, width 38mm max, thickness of back of blade 8.5mm, back of tang 11.8mm blade is curved and tapers along the length.
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEA GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F7C1B2
Object type: SCYTHE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian iron scythe 8th/12th century part of an extensive collection from a known settlement. Side laid from top. The length is 408mm, width 41.3mm max, thickness of back of blade 8.6mm, tang is turned to give an offset 23.8mm section of the tang is square and thickens and is 13.2mm.
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEA GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F798A6
Object type: SCYTHE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian iron scythe 8th/12th century AD part of an extensive collection from a known settlement discovered in1975. Side laid from top. The length is 378mm, width 46.4mm, length of tang 98.6mm, offset on tang (where bent) 15.5mm, blade is flat faced wedge shaped in section, thickness of tang is 9.1mm and width at the back is 9.2mm.
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEA GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.