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Description: | Post medieval cast lead four-disc cloth seal issued at Taunton. The seal has four disks arranged in two conjoined pairs with a tab between. It has been bent back on itself at the tab so the pairs of disks lie up. The two inner disks are stamped. One is stamped with a portcullis, the edge of this disk is bent over on itself obscuring some of the design. The other of the inner seals is stamped TAVNT[ON] encircling 18 or 78. the outer disks are the connecting part. One is a flat ring the other a smaller flat disk with a large projecting spike in the centre. This spike has been pushed through the ring but not, as is usual, flattened to fix the seals together. The inner disks are c.13.3mm diameter, outer 13.3mm. It is 21.3mm long, 18.3mm wide and 7.5mm thick, it weighs 5.38 grams.This is almost certainly for serge cloth and Taunton seals with similar designs for the town name but other designs on the reverse seals (including makers marks and the makers name and a crown in a border) are known from the British Museum collections (Egan 1994: 51 and fig 23, no.97 and 98) and from Gloucester, Norfolk, Jamestown, Virginia and Stockholm. It is suggested they are 17th century seals and the full date would read 1678, other dated examples include 1676, 1677 and 1674 and 1679 (Egan ibid). see also SOM-B424B7 on this database.
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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