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Description: | a Post-Medieval lead cloth seal. It consists of two discs compressed together, with the connecting strip between them broken. The rivet on disc one is also compressed against the disc. The surfaces are very abraided and no decoration can be distinguished. There is a single letter S visible in the centre of the rivet. The discs are 19.63mm and 19.8mm in diameter, and the cloth seal weighs 8.86g. Cloth seals were used to mark cloth for the textile trade throughout Europe in the medieval and later periods. It is likely that this example dates to the 16th-17th centuries.
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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