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Description: | Part of a two- or four-part lead cloth seal, part of one disk and the connecting rivet remain, 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 W at the base, a horizontal cross bar in the centre and a 4 at the top with the tail crossed by a short vertical bar. There is another C-shaped below the central cross bar. On the reverse of the remaining disk is a crudely scratched X. It is now 21.2mm by 18.1mm and 2.8mm 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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