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Description: | Lead seal attached to a ceramic handle sherd. The handle is ribbed and decorated with a mottled light brown glaze. The seal is a rectangular band wrapped around the handle, stamped with a crown above and the letters WR below. The stamp is a kind of capacity mark, to show that the particular stoneware vessel officially held the correct volume of liquid. Usually these marks were stamped integrally into the ceramic before firing (near the rim - ie inevitably close to the handle). They began under William III, who is referred to on this example with a similar crowned WR. The dating is not as simple as it might be at the end of C17/early C18th however, since after a few years of 'AR' stamps under Anne, someone noted that the wording in the Act instituting the stamps required 'WR,' and so they reverted to that for a while. | 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: | 1694
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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