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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: YORYM-434541
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A complete lead cloth seal, formed from two circular discs, joined together with a connecting strip. The complete disc (Disc 1) is stamped with a pine-cone (emblem of Augsburg) with an anvil-shaped projection below; the pine-cone is decorated with raised pellets. There is a six-pointed star in the right field. L ? E can been seen to the top left of the disc. The perforated disc (Disc 2) is stamped with a bishop's crozier. Compare SF-261786 and NMS-848772. Perhaps 16th or 17th century.
Notes:
This object was recorded by Jim Halliday. Jim Halliday provided the photograph. The FLO has not seen this object.
Thanks to Paul Cannon for his advice on this object.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.8 mm
Diameter: 16.4 mm
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: York (Unitary Authority)
District: York (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Stockton-on-the-Forest
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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