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Description: | An incomplete lead cloth seal of medieval date. The seal is of the two disc type with only one disc complete and the second only partly intact. The surviving disc has been stamped with a small hand or shell devise though some other fainter marks are also present though these can no longer be determined. All that remains of the second disc are two extremely worn oval fragments both bearing signs of having been stamped though the features are again indeterminable. A slight protrusion on the edge of the complete disc may represent the strip which joined the two discs.The metal is a light brownish-white colour and is worn. The seal is 26.9mm in diameter, 4.8mm thick and weighs 8.6g. Cloth seals were used in Europe to mark cloth for commercial sale between the 13th and the 19th centuries with two disc seals being the norm until the late 16th century in England (Egan, 1994, p.5). As the connecting strip was a feature developed later in this period it is likely that this seal is of 15th to 16th 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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