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SEAL MATRIX
Unique ID: NMGW350
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Silver fob-seal consisting of an openwork handle, with relatively large suspension loop and an oval matrix. The matrix contains the device of a clenched fist and forearm superimposed over a scythe and set above a linear panel. The Latin motto is arranged around the device and reads 'SINE CLADE STERNO'. Either eighteenth or nineteenth century
Notes:
Fob-seals are small pendant seals whose name derives from association with the watch kept in the fob-pocket of men's breeches. The wearing of fob-seals became popular from the late eighteenth century onwards and they were worn, often in bunches of several seals, conspicuously on a ribbon or a split-ring hanging from the fob-pocket. Although they may have been used for sealing purposes, fob-seals were also an indispensable article of jewellery on which much attention and diverse craftsmen's skills were lavished.
Class: Fob-seal
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Post AD 1700
Date to: Ante AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 7th October 2000
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMGWPA: 2000.140.1
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Wales (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Pembrokeshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Pembrokeshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Dale (Community)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SM8005
Four figure Latitude: 51.700508
Four figure longitude: -5.185121
1:25K map: SM8005
1:10K map: SM80NW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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