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Description: | A cast copper-alloy impersonal medieval seal matrix of conical form (14th century AD). The handle is shallowly hexagonally faceted. The suspension loop is angled and recessed above a ridged collar; the perforation is slightly off centre. The uninscribed die features a large bird sitting or standing right with head turned back (on the die). The beak is long and terminates towards the border, above the tail. Within the bird's arched back, between it, the neck and beak is enclosed a human head in profile. Small punches, creating pellets on the seal, fill the field, mostly forming a border. The whole is within an incised border overscored by fine diagonally incised lines. The artefact now has a dark-brown patina.
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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