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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: SF4627
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
One inner disc from a four-disc lead alnage seal, showing that tax has been paid on the cloth. Stamped with a crown above large numerals reading 1. 1/2, which would have been the tax rate in pence. Issued at some time between 1660 and 1724. Cf. Egan 1994, 184-5.
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1660
Date to: AD 1724
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.01 g
Diameter: 13 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st October 2000
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK HORRINGER
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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