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SEAL
Unique ID: SWYOR-C096C7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A lead alloy seal, dating from the post medieval or modern period. The seal is circular and has a slot running through it from side to side. One face carries the device of the Star of David (interlocked equilateral triangles forming a star), the other the number "227". The seal may be from cloth or some other goods, and may denote that the merchandise is Kosher. It is 15.9mm in diameter and 3.5mm thick. It weighs 2.63gm. A similar example is ESS-FE7782, and one almost the same is LIN-290B62.
Class: Kosher
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 2.63 g
Diameter: 15.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 30th June 2009 - Tuesday 30th June 2009
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Hambleton (District)
Parish or ward: Sowerby-under-Cotcliffe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE4193
Four figure Latitude: 54.33092745
Four figure longitude: -1.37102611
1:25K map: SE4193
1:10K map: SE49SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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1 comment
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Paul Cannon wrote @ 23:08:21 on the 21st July 2012.
This is probably a phosphate bag seal issued by Leeds Phosphate Works. The star of David features on their seals. See http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1119 & http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=2049
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