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Description: | Post medieval lead four disc cloth seal, issued during the reign of Queen Anne from the series featuring a monarch's head. It is comprised of four discs in two conjoined pairs, joined in the centre with a rectangular tab, the discs adjacent to the tab are larger. The seal is bent in the centre at the tab so the pairs of disks are back to back. A projecting circular cross sectioned rivet on the inner side of one outer disk has been pushed through a circluar hole in the other outer disk and was originally stamped flat, joining them. The rivet has now been bent up again, allowing the seal to be removed from the cloth undamaged.One of the disks next to the tab has a raised, cast, design of the bust of Queen Anne facing left around which is a border of short radiating lines within an outer plain line border. The other disk attached to the other end of the tab has a raised, cast design of a crowned shield with a harp on the shield and a 3 to the left of the shield. This design is also surrounded by a border of short radiating lines within an outer plain line border.The outer disks are now bent slightly up and to one side. The entire cloth seal measures 30.4 mm long, 16.5 mm wide, the diameter of the larger discs, 11.2 mm thick with the inner discs each 1mm thick and the outer 2.0mm and weighs 9.13 g. The rivet is c.5.1mm in diameter at the base.Egan (1994, 60) states, the relief designs on these alnage seals (seals that show tax has been paid) are characterised by fine detail resulting from well-engraved dies. The 3 indicates the subsidy (tax) rate in pence. Contemporary cloth seals bearing the bust of Queen Anne are illustrated in Egan (ibid:178; fig. 27), no. 149-153 which have a range of national symbols, in particular 153 also has no legend around the bust. Similar examples on this database include IOW-50A876, BH-53A4A2, IOW-2073C3, and SUR-2D1DA0.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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