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Description: | A two part lead seal cloth seal. Disc 2, with the rivet pushed through the hole has a stamped trefoil of loops ending in a stalk. There are traces of initials that are difficult to decipher. On the reverse are a raised double oval shape and beside the connecting strip is a rosette stamp. The motifs on the disc suggest that it is a clothier's, weaver's or searcher's personal seal rather than a royal one. The earliest seals for marking the quality of cloth date from the late 14th century and continued in various forms up to the 19th century (Egan 1994 p2-4). The motifs on this seal are too incomplete to closely date the object but it is probably late 16th - early 17th century. | 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: | 1500
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rosalind Tyrrell | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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