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Description: | A complete 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. The upper disc is stamped with a square which is halved diagonally and ribbed in one half. The reverse appears undecorated.The metal is a dark whitish-grey colour and is worn. The seal is 23.4mm long (including stem), 15.9mm in diameter, 4.9mm thick and weighs 10.5g. 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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