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Unique ID: SOM-7CE2E5
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Post-Medieval lead cloth seal, dating to AD 1550-1700. A two-disc seal with the connecting strip surviving intact. Disc 1 is plain but with the number 33 scratched into its surface. Disc 2 is stamped with a privy mark consisting of the intials (F?) E flanking interlace forming three loops which connects to a tun or barrel below, with this having three collars on either side. The mark has a corded border.
Dimensions: length 28.3mm; width 21.3mm; thickness 4.8mm; weight 8.12g.
No exact parallel has been found for this seal, although it is probably the personal seal of a Clothier, Weaver or Searcher. The use of interlace connecting intials would probably suggest a date in the 16th or 17th centuries cf. Egan (1994), nos. 219, 240. Egan also publishes an example featuring intials flanking a tree over a tun or barrel (no. 249), suggested to be of the same date range.
Inscription:
(F?) - E // 33
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 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.3 mm
Width: 21.3 mm
Thickness: 4.8 mm
Weight: 8.12 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2017 - Monday 5th June 2017
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Other reference: SCC receipt: 019191
4 Figure: ST6318
Four figure Latitude: 50.96022874
Four figure longitude: -2.52820251
1:25K map: ST6318
1:10K map: ST61NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Egan, G. | 1994 | Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum | London | Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum |