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Description: | An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1650 - AD 1705). Maximum diameter 19.0mm. Weight 2.78g.Disc 1 of a 2 disc seal. The connecting strip is missing and on the reverse of disc 1 is a flattened rivet with a casting seam at either side of the rivet. An impression was made on the reverse of the disc when the seal was attached to the cloth. This impression is clearly visible. Disc 1: NOR/WICH/???At least three other letters beneath WICH are barely visible and indeterminate. The seal is in good condition and has a buff patina on both faces.This is probably a Norwich Weavers' Company seal. Two seals were attached, one at each end, to every worsted examined at Norwich from the mid-seventeenth century until 1705 when sealing there ceased (Egan 1994, 46).A close parallel for this seal is in The British Museum Collections and has been published (Egan 1994, 47, ref. 85).
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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