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Description: | Post Medieval lead alloy two-disc type cloth seal. One disc remains with a hole in the centre for the rivet which would have attached it to the other disc. The rivet, other disc and connecting strip have broken away with patinated breaks. The remaining disc has a raised stamped design of the legend SA BLEW encircling a missing central element, possibly a rose, with a small fluer de lis as the start/ end of the legend, all within a plain line border. It is 22.6mm in diameter, 1.5mm thick and it weighs 3.44 grams.Unfortunatly it has not been possible to identify this in the usual sources but it is probably a personal seal used by a weaver, dyer or searcher. The BLEW may relate to a name or to cloth dyed blue. The general style of the lettering suggests it may be post medieval.
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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