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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: SF-AC1320
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and worn lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. It is missing the part of the front disc and rivet and the back disc due to old breaks, now worn.
It is flat. The front face is decorated with the letter C to the left of a building, perhaps a town hall. On the back face are the remains of an integral rivet with a flattened oval face that would have been pushed through the second, now missing disc.
This cloth seal measures 17.91mm in diameter, 2.08mm in thickness, 3.19g in weight.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.08 mm
Weight: 3.19 g
Diameter: 17.91 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 2nd January 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: EYE 052
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Eye
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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