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Description: | An incomplete lead cloth seal of post-medieval date. The seal is of the two disc type though the majority of the reverse disc has been lost along with the connecting strip. The front surface bears the raised design of the letter "A" within a circumferential border. What remains on the reverse is a series of pellets which may represent a pinecone.The seal is 19.3mm in diameter, 3.8mm thick and weighs 4.7g. The 'A' and pinecone design indicates the seal is likely to have originated in Augsburg, Germany as the pinecone is the heradlic badge of the city. It is suggested that such seals were attached to fustians, a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton and chiefly prepared for menswear, and date to the 16th or 17th century.Similar seals have been recorded on the PAS database as: SOM-516797, SOM-35D010 and NMS-3780C6.
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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