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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: SUSS-2570D3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast lead bag seal or cloth seal. The seal is formed from two circular discs joined by a rectangular folded lug, with a central rivet head flattened against the obverse. A partial legend stamped on the obverse across the rivet and the disc, reads: R/ NNANT /AKEFIELD (Possibly R TENNANT WAKEFIELD). The reverse is hand inscribed: 4 oz. The seal is in good condition, with a pale grey patina, and dates to the post medieval period.
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 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.42 mm
Weight: 20.77 g
Diameter: 30.17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 27th October 2006
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Arun (District)
To be known as: Warningcamp
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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1 comment
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Paul Cannon wrote @ 20:16:35 on the 11th December 2011.
This would definitely appear to be a cloth (or bale seal) bearing the name of R. Tennant of Wakefield. The scratched number on the reverse is probably intended to be 402. These type of numbers are put on by hand and often have an angular appearance. Another seal with the same name and place is recorded on the UK Detector Finds Database ref:23905 [http://www.ukdfd.co.uk]. This seal is much neater and is clearly impressed with serif capitals around the seal between two concentric circles "R.TENNANT WAKEFIELD". The reverse has the scratched numeral 79.
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