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Description: | The cloth seal two part seal, which may be categorized as a 'Clothiers', Weavers or Searchers personal seal. Egan in 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' describes similar seals. The recorded example is probably of a Post Medieval date, 16th to 18th century. The seal is composed of two circular discs which are connected by an integral ribbon. One discs would have a hole in the centre, the other a stud. When the discs are placed over each other and squashed together the stud is flattened holding the seal in place on the product between the two discs. One face is decorated within a beaded border, and this is formed by an 'R' with a symbol which is a '4' with an oversized vertical stem. The letter the other side of this maybe a 'H' but it is faint. The surface of the object has a mid blue/grey colour. The seal measures 33.7mm long, 23.9mm wide and 3.6mm thick. It weighs 10.96g.
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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