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Description: | Part of a two part lead cloth seal, one disk and part of the connecting rivet remains, the other disk and tab are lost to old breaks. The central rivet and missing disk were stamped with a 'privy' or 'merchants' mark. The remaining section of the mark on the rivet has a vertical bar with a horizontal cross bar at the top, probably part of a reversed 4, the lower end of the vertical bar is forked at least twice, flanking the main upright are the letters H/ [H, R or P]. On the reverse of the remaining disk are the figures XI.III with a cross bar linking the 2nd and 3rd uprights above the pellet. It is 18.4mm in diameter and 3.3mm thick; it weighs 3.59 grams.Probably part of a cloth seal used by a weaver, dyer or searcher. The use of a privy mark suggests a 16th to 18th century date. Various similar examples, although no direct parallel are published by Egan (1994:181-9).
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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