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A very early Hornsby-Akroyd tractor powered by a compression-ignition engine developed several years before Diesel developed his. This fine machine, made in Grantham and now owned and superbly restored by Robert Crawford of Frithville, Boston, was on parade at the Carrington Steam Rally near Boston over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend 2008.

The view down the nave of Lincoln Cathedral towards the east end, known as Banks' View (after Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society and Lincolnshire landowner)

St George's Church, Goltho (near Wragby), now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was built in c1640 of brick and achieved some recent fame as the setting for a wedding in the TV adaptation of Moll Flanders.

St Leonard's Church, Haugh (near Alford). It is constructed in greenstone (Spilsby sandstone) and - unusually - chalk.

The church of St Peter and St Paul, Langton by Spilsby, built in the 1720s. The interior has box pews facing inwards, college-wise, and a three-decker pulpit with tester.

Exchequergate Arch, Lincoln, which stands close to the west front of the Cathedral (viewed from the Cathedral). It is a C14 stone building of three stories.

Tattershall Castle, built in 1434/5 by Ralph Cromwell and restored by Lord Curzon in 1912-14. It is owned by the National Trust.

A drying or hacking shed at Barton-on-Humber tile yard. A long strip of land by the Humber has been the site of dozens of small brick and tile making businesses. Today only one survives.

Logo from a traction engine made by William Foster of Lincoln. This company (1856-1942), like other major engineering firms in the city made large numbers of steam engines and threshing machines, but is probably best known for the development of the earliest tank for the First World War.

A Wallis tractor of the late-1920s at the Newark Vintage Tractor Show, 2007. This tractor was made under licence by Ruston and Hornsby of Lincoln.

Concrete pillbox (Type 23) close to the coast at Theddlethorpe. There were dozens of these defensive structures forming an almost continuous line along the Lincolnshire coast during the Second World War.

Easton Park gardens. This bridge over the Witham is one of many fine features in the terraced gardens close to the A1 south of Grantham.

The Tithe Barn at Lincoln, off Greestone Stairs. It was built in 1440 and once belonged to the adjacent Vicars' Court.

Tattershall Bridge over the Witham was built by John Rennie (probably) in c1815. It was superseded by a concrete bridge in 1991.

The Gayton Engine Pumping Station was built in 1850 alongside the Great Eau close to the coast near Mablethorpe. The original steam engine was replaced in 1945 by a Petter diesel powered pump and later by an electric pump.

Brooch found during excavations of Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Quarrington, near Sleagford, 2000/01

Purse-bar, C15 or C16, made of copper alloy, recovered from site of Benedictine nunnery of St Michael, Stamford.

A bronze razor handle in the form of a griffin's head found at a possible temple site in Blankney. The neck splits in two in order to clasp a wide flat iron blade. (Height of griffin's head = approximately 4 cm)

Plan and side views of a mortar made of Ketton limestone. It was found during excavation of a late Saxon village and medieval complex at Hall Farm, Baston.