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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: SF-261786
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A complete lead post-medieval cloth seal. It is a two-disc cloth seal folded over with the rivet from one disc pushed through the perforation of the other, and the two are joined by a connecting strip. The complete disc (Disc 1) is stamped with the pine-cone of Augsburg on a flat base with side projections, with a six-pointed star to the left. The perforated side (Disc 2) has a partial border of pellets with a bishop's crozier within (see YORYM-434541 and NMS-848772 for other examples of this design). It measures 18.52mm in diameter, 26.63mm in length, 2.99mm in thickness and weighs 6.65g. 16th or 17th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.63 mm
Thickness: 2.99 mm
Weight: 6.65 g
Diameter: 18.52 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 5th November 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Finder's ref Wixoe Field 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Wixoe
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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1 comment
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Paul Cannon wrote @ 22:46:41 on the 8th August 2012.
This is probably an early form of the Augsburg cloth seal. The small and relatively simple pinecone has a star either side of it made up of three crossing lines. The other face consists of a bishop's crozier with a 'black letter'? next to it. Only the pointed and hooked end of the crozier can be made out clearly but other parts are there. Compare with the only other example of the same type on the database see YORYM-434541. For further examples see http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=36852&cat=all ; http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=11187 & http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=348 . This type of Augsburg seal is the least common. Most of the later ones have the much more detailed pinecones with the elaborate 'A's so commonly represented on this and other databases.
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