CLOTH SEAL

Unique ID: SOMDOR-EBC776

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Notes:

This cloth seal is an official issue from the alnage, the regulatory system by which each newly woven textile had to be individually examined to ensure it was of good enough quality for the market, then sealed with a cloth seal to show this. The seal is one of a group of 22 cloth seals which were discovered over an area which was formerly a single field in Cerne Abbas, Dorset. The assemblage probably relates to the consumption of cloth rather than its production, unless they came to be deposited during a finishing process carried out in the immediate locality, such as fulling or dyeing.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

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

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 21.94 mm
Width: 18.71 mm
Thickness: 4.01 mm
Weight: 4.85 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 31st December 2004

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment