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Description: | Part of a lead cloth seal of post-Medieval date.The seal is of unusual form for a cloth seal, comprising a truncated circular disc with central perforation for a cord. One side bears the crowned arms of France Modern, an unidentified letter to the right; the other side has what is probably the arms of Lyon: a lion rampant, in chief (three fleurs-de-lis).Dimensions: 14.2mm diameter, 2.7mm thick. Weight: 2.61g.This seal was probably attached to silk imported from Lyon. Similar one-part seals were found in excavations in London (Egan 1995: 102-103, cf. nos. 299 and 300). According to Egan (ibid. 102), 'Legislation in 1540 (article XI) describes seals of this kind with the royal arms and those of the city [of Lyon] as pièces à une cordette from the way they were secured with a white cord (attachée à un cordon blanc - Ref. Sabatier 1912)'.
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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