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Description: | An early post-medieval witch-bottle seal, consisting of a lead fragment 25x21mm, with jetton impress. The other side bears the remains of a ring about 23mm in diameter which would have entered the neck probably to seal a stoneware bottle. The impress is of the quartered Austro-Burgundian shield with steel above as used from 1482-1555. The four quarters are: 1. Austria (fesse) 2. Burgundy modern (three lys in frame) 3. Burgundy ancient (bendy) 4. Brabant (lion rampant) inescutcheon Flanders (lion rampant) The arms as they appear in the lead are of course reversed. The width of shield is 15mm and is probably from the reverse of a Venus penny struck in Nuremberg. For jetton parallels see Mitchiner 826 et seq. Two other examples of Witch bottle seals are know to the identifier, a very similar piece impressed with a late 15th century jetton published in Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue 3 no.273 (as a possible part of a rondel dagger pommel) and WILT-F46577 from Coombe Bissett. Witch-bottles used as an antidote to witchcraft are known from about 1500. German stoneware bottles were favoured containers and have been found plugged with lead.
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