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Description: | A lead four-disc cloth seal of post-Medieval date.The two discs furthest from the folded connecting strip are oval in plan and are plain. The two adjacent discs have decorative projections on their outer sides, creating a 'star-like' appearance. The relief-stamped image on one of these discs consists of a central star surrounded by the legend 'TAVNTON 75'; the perimeter border consists of a series of annulets. The opposite disc bears a crown within three concentric borders, the inner one being of ropework design, the one outside this beaded, the outer border of annulets. The artefact measures 29mm long, 16.8mm wide and 5.8mm thick. The weight is 6.23g.A similar cloth seal, albeit dated (16)'76', was found in London and was suggested to have come from a Taunton serge. According to Egan...'A similar Taunton seal for 1677 (having star-shaped inner parts) was found on the Drummond Plantation site at Jamestown (Virginia, U.S.A - M. Outlaw pers. comm.), and another from the series, for 1674 and with SOMERSET, was excavated in Stockholm (Dahlback 1982, 273 fig. 255f) (Egan 1995: 51, no. 98).
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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