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Description: | Cast lead cloth seal for sealing woolpacks or other textiles, circular in plan, but missing its connecting strip. One face has what appears to be a privy mark on it and the other, the back of the seal, is blank. This would have been the seal of a clothier, weaver or searcher if what is left of the marks might be letters or initials. There appears to be a linear mark across one side of the seal, within the circular border, which does not look like the upper border of a square shield but may be instead the letter 'I' which could be part of an 'H'. To the right of this mark there are curvilinear marks that may be scrolls across another letter, such as an 'O' as there appears to be an oval mark also.Egan (1995) illustrates a similar example of a cloth seal with the letters J H O, with a ligatured J over the top with scrolled ends, on page 182, Fig.31, No.221, which is dated from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.
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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