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Description: | An incomplete lead cloth seal of post-medieval date. The seal is of the two disc type sealed by a central rivet and linked by an integral stem. Most of the back disc is missing. The upper disc is stamped with a crowned royal shield within a beaded border and surrounding legend which can no longer be determined. The reverse is undecorated.The metal is a mid whitish-brown colour and is worn. The seal is 30.3mm long (including stem), 25.5mm in diameter, 3.1mm thick and weighs 8.1g. Cloth seals were used in Europe to mark cloth for commercial sale between the 13th and the 19th centuries and were part of a system of regulation and quality control.The rivet type of cloth seal were specifically devised for marking commercial textiles (Egan 1994, p.4) and were common from the late 16th century onwards.
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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