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Description: | Seven complete and incomplete two part lead cloth seals of Post-Medieval date. each are formed from two disks joined by an integral strip. These disks are designed to be secured to one another via an integral rivet in the centre of the reverse of one, which has been passed through a circular hole in the centre of the other. In the centre of the disk with the hole on each seal is the impressed design of a pinecone, whilst in the centre of the other disk is an impressed ornate A. Similar seals can be seen on p.106 of Egan's (1994) 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum'. These seals were from the fustians (mixed linen-warp and cotton-weft fabrics) of Augsburg, one of the most common types of cloth imported to England (ibid.). The A on the seal is the first letter of the city's name and the pinecone is its heraldic badge (ibid). Egan (ibid.) suggests that they are of sixteenth/early seventeenth century date.1. Length: 19.97mm, Diameter: 18.11mm, Thickness: 4.40mm, Weight: 9.28gLopsided pinecone on unclear base on one face, ornate letter A with an annulet above and to either side on the other. The seal is incomplete as the strip joining both faces is missing.2. Length: 21.45mm, Diameter: 17.20mm, Thickness: 5.28mm, Weight: 6.08gThe seal is incomplete as one disk and the strip joining the two halves are missing. A partial pinecone on the end of the integral rivet to the reverse and ornate letter A with an annulet above and to either side on the outer face. 3. Diameter: 16.45mm, Thickness: 4.98mm, Weight: 3.88gThe seal is incomplete as one disk and the strip joining the two halves are missing. A partial pinecone on the end of the integral rivet to the reverse and ornate letter A with an annulet above it on the outer face. 4. Diameter: 18.74mm, Thickness: 3.38mm, Weight: 4.48gThe seal is incomplete as one disk and the strip joining the two halves are missing. The top of an ornate letter A on the end of the integral rivet to the reverse and a pinecone with unclear base on the outer face. 5. Diameter: 15.37mm, Thickness: 3.08mm, Weight: 2.63gSmall fragment comprising a larger section of one disk with an unclear design on the outer face and attached to the reverse of this, a smaller fragment of the other disk with the base of a pinecone on its outer face.6. Length: 21.09mm, Diameter: 17.57mm, Thickness: 6.17mm, Weight: 6.54gThe seal is incomplete as one disk and the strip joining the two halves are missing. The annulet from beside an ornate letter A on the end of the integral rivet to the reverse and a pinecone with a sub-circular base with rounded side projections on the outer face. 7. Length: 30.12mm, Diameter: 18.54mm, Thickness: 4.76mm, Weight: 9.86gA complete seal. To one face is a small pinecone with unclear base and to the other and incomplete ornate letter A with an annulet to one side.
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