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Description: | A lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. It is a two-part seal, with one disc decorated with a capital A, denoting Augsburg, and a number of annulets surrounding it. There is part of a beaded circle along the cuircumference. On the reverse can be seen a fragment of decoration from a pine-cone, the heraldic device of the city. The seal measures 19.92mm in diameter, and the second disc 11mm diameter. It weighs 5.66g. A very similar example from Salisbury museum is illustrated by Egan in Saunders 2001, fig.26,no 150. The cloth seal is of sixteenth to seventeenth century date.
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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