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Description: | A complete cast and stamped lead cloth seal of 17th century date (c. 1660-c. 1675).A four part seal, the inner elements are lozenge-shaped and the outer discs are sub-circular. The lozenge parts are decorated and joined together by a strip and the sub-circular parts are plain and joined together by a 'butterfly clip' rivet. - //: WP privy mark (ligated) ..S..MERSET around// crowned portcullis// -29.1 x 14.8 x 5.7mm. Weight: 5.95g.This is an alnage seal with initials of the alnager: PW (or WP), who appears on several dated seals from various West-Country counties over almost a decade from the early 1660s to early 1670s. PW has been locally identified as Peter Wells, a Somerset clothier, though the initials (whichever way round they go) are common ones and the suggestion was put forward from a purely Somerset perspective. The seal is possibly for a West-Country serge.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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