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Description: | Post Medieval lead alloy two-disc type cloth seal. Both discs remain with the central rivet which would have attached the discs together. The rivet was attached to the back disc, projected through the front disc and was stamped flat, bending it to one side and leaving the tip projecting. About 20% from the edge of one disk and the connecting strip have broken away with patinated breaks. The piece has a raised stamped design on one face, visible only on the rivet. The design is a merchants mark made of the letter W ( made of two V's overlapping), with a capital T or long cross vertically through the center, below the W are the conjoined letters HG with the G over the elongated central bar of the H which also provides the terminal for the upright of the T or cross. The other side has traces of a scratched design which is very crude but could be WD. It is now 24.9mm by 22.0mm, 3.5mm thick and it weighs 7.40 grams.This was probably a cloth seal used by a weaver, dyer or searcher. The use of a privy mark suggests a broad late 16th to 18th century date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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