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Description: | Part of a two- or four-part lead cloth seal, Two discs linked by a rivet remain, and connecting tab or other discs are lost to old breaks. One disk had a central hole, the other a projecting tab which was pushed through the hole and stamped flat, fixing the discs together. On the disc with the hole and the tab is stamped a raised design of initials, (probably A).B // S or 8 with branches below all within a pellet circle. Towards one edge it has been over punched with the incuse letters IR. On the reverse are crudely scratched letters or numbers, [...]/ or 72 over [...]/6. There is a hole punched through both discs to one side. It is now 29.0mm by 27.0mm and 3.7mm thick; it weighs 12.3 grams.This is probably part of a cloth seal used by a weaver, dyer or searcher with their own initials and scratched marks indicating something about the batch, length or quality. The hole and over punching may suggest that, unlike normal seals, it was reused, presumably as it was not a legal tax seal but just a private indication of quality control. Seals of similar date with privy or merchants marks are often scratched on the back, on this database see SOM-11B223, SUR-6B99A6 and LIN-448763 for example. They are usually 17th-18th century in date.
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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