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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: SUR-515050
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Post Medieval or modern two-part circular lead seal, possibly a cloth seal. The seal is formed of two parts, one of which has two prongs on the reverse which penetrate the hole in the other part and are folded back.
Side 1: 53 (incuse)
Side 2: Blank
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 10.4 g
Diameter: 41.86 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: B16-645
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Moulsford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU5883
Four figure Latitude: 51.54292534
Four figure longitude: -1.16504412
1:25K map: SU5883
1:10K map: SU58SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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