Market Rasen No. 1 / East Rasen / Little Rasen / Rasa / Rase / Rasen Parva / Resne

There are ten entries for [Market, Middle and West] Rasen in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1089/market-middle-and-west-rasen/] [accessed 25 December 2018]; one of the ten, in the lordship of Wadard and chief tenancy of Odo, bishop of Bayeux, in 1086, reports "1 church. 0.12 church lands" in it" [NB: these ten survey entries refer to the different -Market, Middle and West- Rasens as "In Rasa" or "In Rase" or "In altera Rase" witout individual identification]. An article by Henry Kilworth, with photograph by Mariana Teixeira, in The Liconlnshire Echo [30 July 2004, p. 2] informs of a finding of Roman lead font "dating back more than 1,600 years [...] unearthed in a Lincolnshire field" by Gary Lee (from Humberstone) and Jim Wilkinson (from Scartho), using a metal detector. Adam Daubney, a liaison officer of the local County Council, suggested in the same source that: "It is likely the font was made in the East Midlands between 300 AD and 350 AD and used by Christians in baptism" and that the font may have been destroyed in the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a "united attack in 357 AD to 379 AD" involving Picts, Scots and Saxons. The illustration in the same source shows a piece of the font, about a foot in height, adorned with a vertical stripe that appears to include chevron motif. [cf. Index entries for other early metal 'fonts' found in England]. [NB: Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) inform of a 1963 font and cover by Lawrence Bond at St. Thomas' -- not listed in this Index on account of its late date]