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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: GLO-3E5927
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
~~Lead cloth seal comprising two circular discs that are joined by a central rivet that is integral to one disc and pierces the front face of the other, a rectangular connecting strip on one edge joins both discs together. On the obverse is a large crowned portcullis. The reverse is damaged which has removed any detail.
PAS record SUSS-C074D5 notes that: "The portcullis was the main design for alnage seals in the late Tudor period... and continued in use into the early seventeenth century" (Egan 1995:9)". Alnage seals indicated the cloth had been checked for quality by a Crown official and that the subsidy (tax) had been paid. Compare also IOW-5A65C5 and NMS-50AA24.
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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 16 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 4.31 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 17th July 2016
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Forest of Dean (District)
Parish or ward: Tibberton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO7622
Four figure Latitude: 51.89602614
Four figure longitude: -2.350186
1:25K map: SO7622
1:10K map: SO72SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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