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Description: | One half of a cast lead two-piece cloth seal of post medieval date. The outer side appears to show a haloed St Michael trampling the devil, whose arms are raised in futile defense. The orientation of the other (rivet) side is incomplete and hence not very clear, but it shows an asymmetrical bird-like device with ornate plumage or scrolling, below which is a complex ligature (apparently reading P or R, X, D, E or F, B reversed) with a palm wreath on one side. The imprint around the rivet is from a fine textile. This cloth seal is probably a late sixteenth century or early seventeenth century weaver or clothier's issue (pers comm. Geoff Egan).
Dimensions: 23.79mm by 20.74mm by 4.05mm
Weight: 6.4g | 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: | 1550
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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