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Description: | A complete cast lead alloy bag seal or cloth seal probably dating to the eighteenth century AD. The seal is comprised of two circular discs joined by a rectangular folded lug. The obverse bears a printed legend around a circumferential inner border 'R (TEN)NANT WAKEFIELD'. The reverse has a hand inscribed legend '1159', but it is unclear to what this may refer. Other examples of Wakefield seal have been recorded on this database (SUSS-2570D3, HAMP-EC2387 and LIN-293E87), again with hand inscribed numerals on the reverse, usually indicating a weight. Egan (1994:55) notes, '[Wakefield's] textile industry took off at the very end of the seventeenth 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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