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Description: | Post-Medieval complete cast lead bag cloth seal. The seal is of the two disc type linked by an integral stem. The reverse disc is worn but the obverse disc bears traces of decoration- 'Gst 59.'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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