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Description: | An incomplete lead cloth seal of probable Post-Medieval date. One circular disc survives intact along with a flattened lead rivet, however the probable second disc is now missing due to old breaks. The disc is flat, circular in shape and measures 17.60mm in diameter, 2.57mm in thickness, and 4.05g in weight. The front face of the disc is heavily worn making any decorative motif or device that may have once existed entirely illegible. The back face has a thin horizontal casting seam. At the centre is the remains of a lead rivet that is flattened, circular in shape and with a small projecting knop that is oval in section. Cloth seals such as this were utilised to mark cloth for the textile industry throughout Europe in the Medieval and Post-Medieval periods. This example is of probable Post-Medieval date, perhaps dating to the 16th to 18th centuries AD, although it could equally date slightly earlier in the later Medieval period.
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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