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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: BH-95BF63
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete lead-alloy cloth seal, dating to the period AD 1650 to 1705.
The seal comprises two flat circular discs, one of which is now damaged, joined with a small rectangular connecting strip. One disc bears the relief-stamped legend 'WOR/STED/REFOR/MED', within a stamped circular border. On the second disc are the numerals '41', which probably refers to the length of the cloth, in yards.
Length: 22mm; width: 20mm; thickness: 4mm. Weight: 6.04g.
According to Geoff Egan, "'Worsted reformed' seals are among the most common and widely found of all kinds (of cloth seal)..., attesting to a large national and international market for the late seventeenth-century Norfolk worsteds they represent" (1995: 48).
22.3, 20.6, 3.5. 6.04g
WORSTED
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 11th March 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 15/182 - 32
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hertfordshire (County)
District: North Hertfordshire (District)
To be known as: Offley
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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