Record ID: BUC-FB2EFE
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MODERN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver modern needle holder, dating to the 19th century AD. The needle holder would have originally been cylindrical in shape, with a wider rounded end, the sides of the object have been pressed together. Across the surface the holder has been decorated with an incised foliate design, this is in long rectangular panels divided by a triangular impressed border. There are two different designs, one is overlapping leaves, and the other is of spirals and leaves. The rounded end is also decorated with the foliate design of leaves. There is a plain border running around the open e…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-90F5A3
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver washed or base silver sheet metal cap from a needle case of early modern date (Georgian or Victorian). The cap is decorated with pressed or repoussé foliate designs around the sides. The top of the cap is undecorated and there are no makers' marks. There is a split up one side and the interior is filled with sediment.
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 26th April 2023
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Record ID: NLM-1A1E1A
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible needle case. A neatly rolled tube of sheet metal of thickness 1mm, with a longitudinal butted seam, slightly tapered, and with a tiny flat turned over to close the narrower end. The imaginative use of rolled construction in sheet metal is known from Roman contexts, while the idiosyncratic method might be equally at home in an Anglo-Saxon context. Slightly bent. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-850 Length: 79mm, Thickness (wall): 1mm, Diameter: 6.5mm, Weight: 8.01gms
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 15th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Stamford Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-078B54
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead alloy Medieval to Post Medieval vessel possibly a needle holder dating to 15th-17th century. The needle holder has integral lugs either side one third distance from the top. The holder was probably cylindrical with vertical bands of cast oblique ladder decoration. The vessel is open at one end and possibly had a separate top or lid. The vessel has been squashed flat and making a positive identification not possible.An incomplete lead alloy Medieval to Post Medieval vessel possibly a needle holder dating to 15th-17th century. The needle holder has integral lugs …
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
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Record ID: LON-653BD9
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, probably medieval, bone needle case, AD.1300-1500. This is a hollow, bone, cylinder with one end being a rounded closed terminal and the opposite being open. The open end has a stepped lip to accomodate a cap that is now missing, The lip is ridged to help grip the lid and keep it closed. The closed end has been rounded and has a groove running around the circumference just below. The main body of the case is undecorated but has become worn and damaged in places. The tube has filled with concretion but would have been hollow to accomodate pins and needles. Length: 57.96m…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2016
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Record ID: LIN-3FC25A
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure ref. 2005 T129: a medieval container, probably a needle case, in the form of a hollow tube with an internal tube designed to be extended in a telescopic fashion. The outer tube is decorated with three gilded, ribbed bands, each with fleur-de-lis terminals. The terminals have been bent away from their original positions. Two of them, diametrically opposed at each end, may have had a mechanical function connected with opening and extending the telescopic component. The body of the tube is silver and the ribbed bands with fleur-de-lis are gilded. The container dates from the …
Created on: Friday 19th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th December 2014
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Record ID: LON-8C87D3
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplere lead alloy post medieval needle holder dating to 16th-17th century. The needle holder is cylindrical and tapers to a domed end with globular terminus. There is an undecorated border (8mm) running round the rim of the open end, beneath which are two opposing rectangular suspension loops. The decoration is separated into three panels; the domed end and two panels along the body. The sections are separated by a moulded rope decoration with a linear decoration either side, except the border with the undecorated panel. Each of the body panels are decorated in a foliate design…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2015
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Record ID: NMS-079675
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete pin case, tubular with traces of a line of incised chevrons on the face and a longitudinal seam on the reverse, broken at both ends, diam 7-8 mm, length more than 57 mm). When found it contained two copper alloy pins with cap-like heads, one with point missing, one of length 33 mm and the other at least 18 mm long. Compare Margeson (1993) pp.11-12, fig.5, no.45, Type 5. Dates to the 16th-17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F521B1
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
One end of a silver sheet tubular item, possibly a needle case or similar. The piece was originally tubular or oval in section formed of a rectangular piece of sheet rolled edge to edge and meeting in a seam down one side. The slightly convex faces suggest it was originally oval in section although it is now squashed flat. One end is incomplete with an irregular break. The other appears complete and has a slightly thinner, plain tubular piece of silver sheet fitted inside the first creating a step in thickness and width where they join. The seam has opened down the side of both tubes …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Petherton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-E30875
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
The lower element of a two part needle case consisting of a hexagonal silver tube that widens from 7.65mm at the open end to 10.56mm at the closed end. The lid was not found. The upper edge of the case has two opposing holes 2mm in diameter possibly for a chain to connect it to the lid. The decoration on the outside of the case consists of incised chevrons filled in with vertical hachuring down the alternating panels This needle case dates between 1150 and 1450 AD. See: Egan and Pritchard, p384 for a more detailed discussion on this type of object. See YORYM-166731 for a similar nee…
Created on: Thursday 24th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-F06842
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy container. Circular in section and made up of sheet copper alloy welded along a vertical axis, filed flush. The base is 9mm in diameter. The container is 48mm long, and widens to 12mm in diameter. A lid with a circular knop has corroded into position. The lid is 10mm high, making the complete object 58mm long. The container is hollow, and faintly rattles when shaken, which suggests that some of the needles may still be inside. The object has an even mid-green patina acroos th body. The lid has a reddish-brown colour showing through the green surface patina. There is s…
Created on: Friday 7th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2011
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Record ID: BH-F9F5B7
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily damaged silver-gilt tube, probably representing a modern needle case. The outer surface is decorated with numerous floral and foliate motifs which have probably been made by a machine. Many of the grooves contain niello, and traces of copper corrosion adhere to the surfaces of the object. Length:44.1mm; width:14.8mm; thickness/depth:7.9mm. Weight:5.4g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Last updated: Monday 23rd April 2018
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Record ID: LON-E3F661
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman - Early Medieval bone artefact probably a needlecase daring 4th - 5th century. This bone artefact has been worked to have four flat sides creating a square-shaped cross-section and it is hollow. It tapers from 6.36mm slightly to one end (5.58mm) and more so to the other end (4.17mm). There is wear and damage to both ends. All four sides are decorated with ring and dot motifs. Side one has four sets of three ring and dots arranged to form a trefoil. Side two has two ring and dot trefoils flanked by three ring and dots arranged in a line. Side three is a repeat of si…
Created on: Friday 18th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2012
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Record ID: CAM-C7EE93
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 19th century AD copper alloy needle case and thimble containing pin. Length: 58.53mm, Width: 16.83mm, Weight: 7.6g
Created on: Wednesday 7th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Water Newton Rally 2009', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-166731
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete and elaborate copper alloy needle case dating to between the medieval period. The case consists of a single rolled sheet of copper alloy with a pinched together lower terminal. The sheet has been cut at the pinched terminal on four lines, forming four flaps, these allow the terminal to be pinched and neatly folded in. The joints have then been soldered to prevent the contents of the case (needles) from falling out. The case has then been decorated with incised lines after being assembled. The top of the case has a incised band running round the circumference with vertical …
Created on: Monday 18th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 5th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Westow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F13C42
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tube, possibly a needle case or lace chape, consisting of a rolled sheet with a longitudinal seam and four 'petals' crimped together at the terminal, with separate binding strips soldered onto the mid-point and at the terminal, and solder from the missing strip at mouth. The strip at the mid point has a plain slightly convex central band between two ribs with oblique cross-hatched engraved lines and that at the terminal is flat-sectioned with similar cross-hatching. Diameter of tube 7mm, length 99mm. Cf. Hinton in Biddle (1990), fig,352, nos.4087 and 4096.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horsham St. Faith and Newton St. Faith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2D6364
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast cu-alloy folded needle case or needle holder cap dating from the medieval ages, i.e. c. 14th century. The cap is small and of simple construction: a rectangular piece of sheet metal was folded over four times around its long axis with the last two folds (out of five) overlapping to form a case. Along the top of the rectangular sheet, there would be at two intervals (to coincide with the second and fourth side of the final folded case) a small extra square of metal which would then be folded over one another to form a simple cap. Before folding, the cap had been decorated with a si…
Created on: Wednesday 13th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ruthin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-B425F2
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy top of a needle case. The object has a domed top with ridges radiating from this to a raised band with diagonal ridges. Below this the object is rectangular and flattened. The decoration is unclear in this part but may be vertical rows of raised dots. A casting seam is visible at the side edges, with a rectangular loop on each side. The bottom edge appears tightly closed but would have originally been open. This resembles find LON-14F404.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tower Foreshore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-14F404
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small cast double-sided lead top for a needle case. The object has a straight lower edge with two circular pierced lugs below and a rounded top with protruding knob. The decoration is almost the same on both sides. There is a horizontal band of decoration above the straight edge with a central dot and circle motif between two vertical lines. Above this is a band of vertical lines, and above this vertical lines radiating out from the centre of the top.
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tower forshore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-EC1D37
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably an incomplete copper-alloy sheet post-medieval needle holder. The tongue-shaped case is pointed-oval in section, open at the top and closed at the pointed terminal end. One side has two panels of decoration, one has an animal with a long swirling tail and the other panel has alternate triangles with decorated foliate patterns. The other side is very worn, encrusted and incomplete near the open end but two panels of interlacing decoration are still visible near the closed pointed end. The complete side also has an integral sub-rectangular lateral loop near the open end. There m…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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