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Description: | A complete Post-Medieval lead alloy bag or bale seal, dating to c. AD 1550 - 1750. The seal is of the two disc type linked by an integral stem. One of the faces has '14/35' engraved. The other face is decorated with a heraldic crest which is divided into 9 squares, with a crown at the centre, an anchor in each corner and plain squares arranged in a cross. Above the crest, there are two crossed flags, the flag on the left appears to the the Union flag, while the flag on the right appears to the English flag, with the flag of Saint George. to the left of these flags, there is another small crown.The object measures 32.3 mm in length, 24.8 mm wide, 4.7 mm thick and weighs 13.1 g.Cloth seals were used in Europe to mark cloth for commercial sale between the 13th and the 19th centuries and were part of a system of regulation and quality control. The rivet type of cloth seal were specifically devised for marking commercial textiles (Egan 1994, p.4) and were common from the late 16th century onwards. This object is comparable in construction to YORYM-5E9658 and NARC-D89017.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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