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Description: | A Medieval, fourteenth century, seal matrix. The seal is of pyramid type, having a hexagonal stem and a terminal with a circular piercing. It is 24mm in height with a face diameter of 18mm. It bears the poorly executed legend ?ECCE AGNUS DEI?. Its design is of ?a lamb and a flag? or the Lamb of God.
Seals with the Lamb of God design were quite common in the fourteenth century, especially in the 1330s. Often they have the inscription ?ECCE AGNUS? ? Behold the Lamb (of God). There are six of this type in the British Museum (Tonnochy, A. B. 1952. Catalogue of British Seal-Dies in the British Museum, page 194, ref. 900-905) and three in the Public Record Office. Site finds include examples from Salisbury and Carmarthen Priory (Saunders, P. and Saunders, E. 1991. Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue, Part 1, page 32, ref. 13; Williams, D. 1982. Welsh History through Seals, page 13, no. 22). | 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: | 1300
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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