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SEAL

Unique ID: LIN-4FE3D6

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Lead cloth seal. The seal is circular in plan and is missing its loop. All that remains of the decoration is part of the portcullis. A similar seal bearing a portcullis design dating to the late sixteenth century is illustrated in Egan, 1994, p169, fig. 18, no. 48.

Class: Cloth

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Date from: AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1599

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4 mm
Diameter: 17 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
Parish or ward: Aswarby and Swarby (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TF0440
Four figure Latitude: 52.947316
Four figure longitude: -0.453639
1:25K map: TF0440
1:10K map: TF04SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Egan, G.	1994	Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum	London	Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum

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Recording Institution: LIN
Created: 19 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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