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SEAL
Unique ID: YORYM-9C0D64
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete lead bag seal of post-medieval date. The seal is of the two disc type joined by a central bar. One disc bears the indistinct merchant's/privy mark H or double L in curvilinear italic lettering. The reverse is inscribed in a crude hand with the numbers 483//18½ which are likely to represent the quality control officer who checked the goods prior to sealing and/or the quality/quantity of the goods.
The metal is a mid brown colour and is worn. The seal is 30.1mm in diameter, 4.3mm thick and weighs 18.7g.
Lead cloth seals were used between the 13th and 19th centuries as a means of identification and as a component of regulation and quality control.
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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4.3 mm
Weight: 18.7 g
Diameter: 30.1 mm
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Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Langtoft (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0066
Four figure Latitude: 54.08022003
Four figure longitude: -0.47297834
1:25K map: TA0066
1:10K map: TA06NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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