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Description: | Post Medieval two part cloth seal of unclear authority / issuer formed of two disks linked by a rectangular tab which is folded in half. The back disk had a central projection on the inner side which fitted through the hole in the centre of the front disk and was stamped flat to hold them together. Because it has not been stamped very hard the design has only left an impression on the end of the projection rather than on the wholoe disk. Therfore only a small part of the stamp design is visible. It appears to have several angular lines, possibly a corner of a Royal shield from an alnage mark or a merchants mark. It is 34.1mm long by 20.6mm across the disks and 9.0mm thick; it weighs 18.31g.Although the design is mostly illegible it seems similar in form to alnage, town and merchants seals of the 16th and 17th century although other types cannot be ruled out
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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