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Description: | An incomplete cast lead probable two part cloth seal, probably dating from the late Medieval - Post Medieval period, probably between AD 1500 - 1750 (length: 18mm; width: 17mm; thickness: 5.5mm; weight: 3.5g).At the top of seal, there is the stubbed remains of a sub-rectangular connecting strip that would have been folded back on itself (length: 2.5mm; width: 4mm). Only one disc remains of the two that would have probably lay back to back. The disc may have originally been circular in shape but the outside edges are broken and corroded. There is an inscription on the disc in three lines, which appears to read '[ ]+[ ]/[M]A+/H. The lead rivet that would have held the two discs together is still present on the back of the disc. Overall, the artefact is in a worn and poor condition.Cloth seals were in use between the 13th and 19th centuries and were part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control which became very complicated, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Egan, 1995, page 1).
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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