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Description: | A worn lead cloth seal dating to the post-medieval period. The seal was probably a two-disc type, with a folded connecting strip between the two discs. Disc 1 is flat and plain on its external face and was linked to disc 2 via a rivet. This rivet shows through on the face of disc 2 from the centre to the outer edge. Disc 2 bears a raised inscription with a privy mark which is hard to discern although it could be an 'I'. Stylistically the device is similar to a seal illustrated in Egan (1995, 80, 181; ref. 214). This personal clothiers'/weavers'/searchers' seal is very difficult to date precisely and could come from any time between the late sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Egan (1995, 1) notes that the system of industrial regulation and quality control to which lead cloth seals were testament became 'very complicated' during this very period. | 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: | 1575
1775 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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