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Description: | Copper alloy vesica seal matrix; pierced suspension loop at upper apex; plate curves slightly in profile; front face engraved with outer inscription and central image; central image consists of a lower profiled suppliant figure kneeling below a central seated saint flanked by a pair of smaller profiled kneeling figures. The inscription 'S' FRATRIS: ALARDI EREMITE (The seal of Brother Alard, hermit) refers to one Alard's status as an Augustinian Friar. The Augustinian friars were known as 'Ordo fratorum eremitarum sancti Augustini'. The only Augustinian Friary in Suffolk was at Clare. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1530 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Gabor Thomas | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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