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Description: | A post-Medieval lead cloth seal of early 18th-century date (1702-1714).The object consists of two sub-circular discs (there may originally have been four) joined by a folded connecting strip from the series featuring a monarch's head. One disc bears a female bust facing left, that of Queen Anne (1702-1714) with the legend MAG BRI ET DEI (possibly). The other disc bears a crowned thistle, with "J" in the left field and "1/2" (the subsidy rate in pence) in the right field. The images on both sides are contained within a circle of closely-spaced dashes.Length: 16.5mm; width: 15.1mm; thickness: 3.2mm. Weight: 2.73g.As Egan (1994, 60) states, the relief designs on these alnage seals are characterised by fine detail resulting from well-engraved dies.Contemporary cloth seals can be found illustrated in Egan 1994 (178; ref. 145ff.).Egan, G., 1994. Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum. London: Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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