Lincolnshire County Council, Adam Daubney, 2013-03-21 16:38:14
Title
Fossil seal urchin
Malongosolelo
English: A complete fossil sea urchin. This object is a natural item, however it is recorded here due to the possibility that it could have been used as some kind of amulet. The object was found on a middle Saxon 'productive' site, and the fossil is out of place in the natural setting of the site. It might be, therefore, that it was brought to site through human agency.
A similar echinoid was discovered in urn 364 at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Cleatham, North Lincolnshire, where it was thought to have been purposefully placed as an amulet.
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Siku
500 - 1066
Accession number
FindID: 551527 Old ref: LIN-B37563 Filename: LIN2013-625.jpg
Credit line
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk