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Description: | Personal 13th century lead seal matrix of circular shape, 32mm in diameter by 2.5mm thick, the back plain. The cutting shows a large fleur de lys as the central motif with a circumscribed legend. Though neatly inscribed the legend is unclear owing to surface distortions and damage to the lead. It includes some gothic letter forms with mixed upper and lower case letters, and appears to read S' de OLIVIa FiLi Ioh D.... (The seal of Olivia daughter of Iohn....). However this may not be quite a correct reading, rather an attempt to interpret a damaged legend.
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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