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Description: | An incomplete cast lead two-part cloth seal of early/mid seventeenth century date, Norfolk/Norwich issue (c. AD 1600 - c. AD 1650). Length 22.2mm, width 20.0mm and 1.7mm thick. Weight 3.84g. The circular disc is disc 1 of a two-part seal. A small portion of the connecting strip has survived. The front has moulded capital letters in three lines: TO/NAR-/W-. The complete lettering would probably have been: TO/NARO/WE, indicating that the cloth was narrower than the regulation stipulated by the system of quality control known as Alnage. The reverse has the stub of the integral rivet that secured disc 2 (now missing). The face of the stub has part of the arms of Norwich, with the gate of the three-towered castle visible over fragments of the lion passant guardant below. The area surrounding the stub, between the two halves of the seal, has a distinct textile impression. The disc is in poor condition and each face has friable lead corrosion deposits. A seal found in the River Thames had a legend reading "too shorte" (Egan 1994, 49, fig. 22, ref. 92). For another Norwich seal with a 'too narrow' inscription, see NMS-3043C5.
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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