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Description: | An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. Part of one disc survives, seemingly deliberately cut along one side, the remainder of the object now missing due to old breaks. It is flat, oval in form and with a large central circular perforation. Visible on one face, but largely obscured by the central perforation, is depicted a griffin rampant right within a pelleted or beaded border. Surrounding the border are the remains of a legend reading [...S/B?]A[...], the majority of the lettering now either missing or illegible due to the preservation of the object. It measures 42.80mm in length, 32.42mm in width, 2.17mm in thickness, and 8.42g in weight.This is an incomplete lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. It finds similarities in seals of the Dutch community in Colchester published from the British Museum collections (Egan, 1995: nos. 25-37, pp. 29-33; see also LON-22F377), perhaps the surviving letters S or BA indicative of it being a seal for say or bay textiles. It is likely to be of c.16th-18th century AD date.
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