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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: HAMP-F7A5D6
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
One piece of a post medieval lead two-piece seal, possibly with an anthropomorphic design. The object is sub-circular, with a section missing from the circumference, and the connecting lead strip and opposite piece of the seal has been lost. The uniface design on the seal appears to depict the body of a man and a woman (both naked and missing their heads) on two third of the face, with an underworld? below them; on the right is a ladder from the ground level downwards. It is of uncertain origin, and the complexity of the design is unusual for cloth seals. Cloth seals were in use between the 13th and 19th centuries and were part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control which became very complicated, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Egan 1995, 1), thus a post medieval date has been suggested.
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 13.25 mm
Width: 11.78 mm
Thickness: 2.05 mm
Weight: 1.525 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 28th September 2008
Rally details.
This object was found at Weekend Wanderers - Ropley (28-09-2008)
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 18
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: East Hampshire (District)
Parish or ward: Ropley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU6434
Four figure Latitude: 51.101739
Four figure longitude: -1.08732
1:25K map: SU6434
1:10K map: SU63SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. | 1994 | Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum | London | Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum | 1 |
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