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Description: | A capacity seal made of lead and dating to the post-medieval period. The seal is a flat band of lead that would have originally been attached to the handle of a drinking vessel to mark that it was of official capacity. The seal displays a stamped crown above unclear lettering.The stamp is a kind of capacity mark, to show that the particular stoneware vessel officially held the correct volume of liquid. Usually these marks were stamped integrally into the ceramic before firing (near the rim - ie inevitably close to the handle). They began under William III. The dating is not as simple as it might be at the end of C17/early C18th however, since after a few years of 'AR' stamps under Anne, someone noted that the wording in the Act instituting the stamps required 'WR,' and so they reverted to that for a while.For a similar object see LIN-940385.
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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