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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: SF-970AA0
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. One disc survives, as does part of the central rivet and second disc, but the second disc and any connecting strip are mostly missing due to old breaks. The complete disc is flat, circular in form and undecorated. At the centre of one face is an integrally cast rivet or lug that has been flattened and from which extends part of the seconf, incomplete disc. This second disc has the remains of impressed decoration comprising what appears to be a crowned portcullis, its precise form and any additional decorative elements now illegible due to old breaks. The entire object measures 19.70mm in diameter, 4.09mm in thickness, and 5.53g in weight. This is an incomplete lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date, c.16th-18th centuries AD.
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 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4.09 mm
Weight: 5.53 g
Diameter: 19.7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Finder's ref.: 250211: 81
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Near Bury St Edmunds
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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