Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOM-ED4261
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post Medieval lead-alloy cloth seal. The seal is of the two-disc type and one disc and the connecting rivet attached to it survive, although the other disc and the tab that previously linked the discs is missing. The remaining disc is stamped (offset) with the letters S W with a looped bow of four points between. Where visiable, there is a double border, one narrow, the outer wider and poelleted. On the rest of the disc appears to be part of a second stamped design with a pellet line and larger letteriing. The seal is now 19.5mm in diameter, 2.9mm thick and weighs 4.87 grams.
This was probably a privy or merchants mark indicating a cloth seal used by a weaver, dyer or searcher. The use of a privy mark suggests a broad late 16th to 18th century date.
Possibly the same design as SOM-84C656.
Notes:
Two-disc seals are formed of a disc with a hole in the centre linked by a tab to a second solid disc with a projecting rivet on the inner face. The seal is bent in half with the tab running over the edge of the cloth and the rivet on one disc is pushed thorugh the cloth and second disc and stamped flat to hold the discs together and to the cloth.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.9 mm
Weight: 4.87 g
Diameter: 19.5 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st October 2013 - Thursday 31st October 2013
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Other reference: SCC receipt 16613
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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