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Description: | Post Medieval two part cloth seal with two disks joined by a tab. The back disk is plain on the outer side and had a central projection on the inner side which fitted through the hole in the centre of the second disk and was stamped flat to hold them together; about four fifths of this back disk remains. Only about a half of the front disk, including the stamped flat projection remains. It was stamped with a 'privy' or 'merchants' mark in the form of a number four with an open point and an elongated central bar with a cross bar near the top; most of the mark is missing to the old break. The mark is within a double border with a plain line surrounded by a pellet border. It is now 20.9 by 16.9mm and 3.8mm thick; it weighs 4.72 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.
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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