NARC-147607: Late medieval to Postmedieval cloth seal of lead

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CLOTH SEAL

Unique ID: NARC-147607

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A late Medieval to Post Medieval lead cloth seal (1450-1650). This two part cloth seal no longer has the folded linking strip. One face of the seal displays a single-headed eagle, beaked and legged, within an oval field(an apparently heraldic device)and the other is stamped ‘3 PO' below a crown. Cloth seals were used to mark commercial cloth for sale. Dimensions: diameter: 21.06mm; thickness: 4.05mm; weight: 5.67g.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1650

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 10.2 g
Diameter: 18.6 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 11th August 2006

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead

Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Norton (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP5863
Four figure Latitude: 52.262115
Four figure longitude: -1.151607
1:25K map: SP5863
1:10K map: SP56SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

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1 comment

StuE wrote @ 14:42:56 on the 11th May 2011.
This is a Post Office seal, see WILT-AFD0C4.

Audit data

Recording Institution: NARC
Created: 17 years ago
Updated: 4 years ago

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