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Description: | Medieval copper-alloy seal matrix, dated to 13th to 14th century. This seal matrix is a non-heraldic personal seal is circular in shape. The central motif of the seal is a four leaf clover and the legend runs around the outside. Most of the legend is illegible but it appears to begin AVE M[?]. The integral handle has a hexagonal shaft, a collar with a groove both above and below it, and a trefoil shaped loop. The original surface of the seal matrix has survived but is pitted and abraded, and the exposed surfaces are light green in colour. It weighs 14.9g. The seal was a used as a device for authenticating documents at a time when few could read or write. A parallel can be found in Bailey, G. 2000. Finds Identified. Greenlight Publishing. Page 28, Figure 12. | 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
1399 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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