Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOMDOR-ED2340
Object type certainty: Certain
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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 action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Post AD 1474
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.87 mm
Width: 19.24 mm
Thickness: 4.05 mm
Weight: 6.17 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 31st December 2004
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Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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