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Description: | Fragment of a lead cloth seal dating to the Post Medieval period, AD1500-1700. The fragment is square in shape wit a makers mark visible, depicting a portcullis. There are a series of lines, resembling crosses, cut into the object. However, it is likely this is just accidental damage. Egan (1994, 9) writes that the mark of the "crowned- portcullis...was the main design for alnage seals in the late Tudor period." With the crowned-portcullis meaning that the cloth had been checked by a crown offical.The object is similar to SWYOR-0B10CD.The object is 18mm in diameter
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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