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SEAL
Unique ID: CORN-9DCD87
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Glass bottle seal with raised lettering in the form of an 'I' above 'Pra'[...] above the date 1[7..]. The I is the first initial of the owner of the bottle that the seal was attached to, and the lower letters are part of the surname. The style of the lettering, comparing it to other examples in the Royal Institution of Cornwall's collection, and the dark green glass suggest that the seal was attached to an 18th-century bottle.
Class: bottle
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 14.23 g
Diameter: 45 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2010 - Friday 1st January 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Glass
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: St. Clement (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW8445
Four figure Latitude: 50.26538
Four figure longitude: -5.03217
1:25K map: SW8445
1:10K map: SW85NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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