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Description: | The copper alloy matrix from the end of one arm of a Post-Medieval multi-armed seal matrix. The face of the matrix (the die) is broadly circular and inscribed with a design of a heart pierced by two arrows with drops of blood or tears above and to the sides and a probable crown or possible eye above; all within a engrailed border. From the back of the matrix rises the stub of a handle, the handle is circular in section with a district casting line running down the sides at 12 and 6 o'clock on the matrix. The handle now ends in an old break just above the matrix. It is 15.5mm in diameter and 7.9mm thick and weighs 4.49 grams.SOMDOR240 found in the same area is related and probably from the same matrix.Such multi-die matrices tend to be attributed a 17th-century date (see Read 1996, 152; no.1030, 1031) and have a different design on each die. See SOM-76F867 for a complete example.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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SEAL MATRIX
An incomplete post-medieval cast copper-alloy…
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