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Description: | A complete copper alloy 14th century personal, but anonymous seal matrix. The die of the seal is circular in plan with a diameter of 17.14mm. Carved in negative is the inscription PRIVE SV which translates from French as ?I am private?. This inscription runs around an image of a stag, facing right. The shaft of the seal matrix is conical, six sided and terminates in a circular loop. The overall length of the matrix is 24.6mm and it weighs 8.26g. The overall patina of the matrix is dark green. Harvey and McGuinness, 1990, note in their book, A guide to British Medieval seal,page 88, that after 1300 seals became much smaller with the owners name often omitted. They were often inscribed in French, as with this example, and the inscriptions were much more imaginative. With the example recorded here ?I am private? refers to the document that was being sealed. | 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
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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