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Description: | A complete cast lead bag or bale seal of late post-medieval date. The seal is circular in plan with a roughly rectangular cross section. It is comprised of a single disc of metal which is perforated by a hole running across its diameter which would have housed wire or textile ligatures which were used to secure a bag. The seal is extremely worn rendering all detail illegible.The metal is a light whitish-grey colour and is worn. The seal is 20.1mm in diameter, 5.2mm thick and weighs 11.6g.Lead bale and cloth seals were used between the 13th and 19th centuries as a means of identification and as a component of regulation and quality control. Unlike cloth seals bale seals comprise single discs used to identify textiles, as well as parcels and bales of trade goods. The obverse would typically display a city's arms, and the reverse would record data such as the length or width of fabric or the weight of a parcel.
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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