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SEAL
Unique ID: LIN-7BBEB5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A lead modern Baltic bale seal dating to AD 1834. The seal has a pair of sub-rectangular piercings through the seal from one edge to the other. The seal has been stamped on both faces with inscriptions in Cyrillic script. The seal is for a bale of hemp. The seal gives the inspector's name as I.M. Bushev, and the port-name St Petersburg.
Obverse:
ПД = PD (Hemp)
И.M.БУШEBЬ (I.M.BUSHEV)
H67
Reverse:
CПБ
ПEH2
A.H.
1834
The top line of the reverse СПБ are the initials for St Petersburg.
Overall, the seal measures 21.1mm in diameter and 5.3mm in thickness. It weighs 12.12g.
Lead-alloy seals such as this one were attached to bundles of flax and hemp exported from Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A number of Baltic bale seals have been found near Gainsborough: LIN-328136, LIN-7EFDA3 and LIN-6C1AF7.
Class: Bale seal
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Exactly AD 1834
Date to: Exactly AD 1834
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 5.3 mm
Weight: 12.12 g
Diameter: 21.1 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2013
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: West Lindsey
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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