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Description: | Lead cloth seal. The seal is in poor condition and is now little more than a lump of lead, with the two discs corroded together. One side bears a stamp, although this is very worn and difficult to discern. The letter P can just be made out to the bottom left of a central motif, and another unclear letter is situated to the top right of this motif. Lead clth seals were used to mark textiles for commecial sale in cloth-producing countries in Europe between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. The seals were the visible part of a system of regulation and quality control (Egan 1994, page 1). This example is too worn to date with any accuracy, but it is medieval to post-medieval in date. | 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: | 1200
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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