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SEAL
Unique ID: YORYM-16D880
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete cast lead bag seal of modern date. The seal is circular in plan with a sub-rectangular cross section and is comprised of a single disc of metal which is perforated by two holes running across its diameter. The hole would have been for wire or textile ligatures which were used to secure a bag.
The seal is of G&T Earle Limited; pelican cement manufacturers and ship owners from Hull.
Both sides are stamped with a centralpelican feeding its chicks with blood from its breast, a medieval motif representing Christ but here adopted as a trademark, surrounded by the legend G&T EARLE LIMITED HULL. This is in turn surrounded by a second circumferential legend most of which is now illegible. All that remains of this text is the word "BRAND" on one side of the seal.
The metal is a mid greyish-white colour and is worn. The seal is 22.5mm in diameter, 4.4mm thick and weighs 10g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1875
Date to: Circa AD 1911
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4.4 mm
Weight: 10 g
Diameter: 22.5 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: York (Unitary Authority)
District: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Wigginton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE5958
Four figure Latitude: 54.014648
Four figure longitude: -1.101107
1:25K map: SE5958
1:10K map: SE55NE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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