BARDNEY ABBEY FINDS (1909-1914)
Finds from Specific Buildings
Three NE chambers:
Centre Chamber:
(Workshop?)
West Chamber:
Church:
South Transept:
West Front:
South Choir Aisle:
Chancel:
North Transept:
(SW corner)
Nave:
Refectory:
Well:
(In yard of Refectory?)
Cloister:
(Outside S W door of
church)
Kitchen:
Infirmary:
(W door)
Vestry:
(E of N Transept)
Porch of Abbot’s House:
Cellarium:
Chapter House:
Abbot’s House area:
Finds by date:
1909:
Arch.J. XVI (1909)
p 398
Iron tools; nails; glass; lead fragments; pottery. Decorated coffin slab
(broken);
Stone coffin; bones; etc. Five more coffins; skeleton;
Altar Slab (5 crosses); 6 tombstones; further tombstone (Horncastle);
Two large studded nails;
Seven tomb slabs; small altar slab;
Piece of sheet lead; knife with handle;
St Laurence statue;
Many tomb slabs;
One glazed tile; fragments of stone table supports; knife with bone handle;
1½ pewter plates; large ‘S’ hook; bottom of wooden bucket; pieces of
leather; pieces of large pitcher; beads of rosary; animal bones;
Abbey Seal; melted lead and glass; piece of bell metal; brass cross; several
large-headed pins, some Nuremburg tokens;
Millstone; a mortar; several knives; Cistercian-ware posset pot;
Many thousands of oyster shells;
Two brass letters; a small bell; many pieces of lead; a quantity of broken
‘Roman and early English pottery’;
Two tomb slabs;
Elizabethan shilling; bulla of Boniface VIIII (1389); bench end; pedestal;
blackware mug;
Plain yellow and green glazed floor tiles;
Pair of iron tongs – 2’ 6” long;
A fetter-lock and a portion of another;
A green glazed ewer;
A greenish-yellow glazed ----- pancheon;
Tick glass in lead;
Numerous pieces of stained glass;
A peculiar iron buckle;
Several old knives;
An ancient key;
Numerous small pieces of richly ornamented lead;
A cresset with four holes;
A gracefully carved cornice piece with gold still adhering;
A stone seal impression;
A bronze ring with cameo in the centre;
Many tiles and fragments of pottery;
Courtesy of Lincoln Historic Environment
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