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SEAL
Unique ID: SUSS-8203B1
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of the inner disk from a cast lead four-part alnage seal. It is flat on the back, the front is stamped with SER[...]//HE[...]//1628 in three lines with double roses to the left and below. It is 18.9mm by 16.4mm by 1.3mm thick and weighs 1.97 grams.
It would originally have read: "serc//hed // 1628"; (ie the textile was examined in that year). It is probably from Kent by parallel with another, more complete, example from London, though the same alnagers initials (ligatured TH/HT) which appear on the other inner disc of the London example, along with the county name, occur on some Essex issues and a few much less common Surrey ones too.
Inscription:
SER[C]//HE[D] // 1628
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1628
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.9 mm
Width: 16.4 mm
Thickness: 1.3 mm
Weight: 1.97 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 16th April 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Stamped
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Arun (District)
To be known as: Patching
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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