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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: DEV-2076D0
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Post-Medieval lead 2-part cloth seal, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1700. Only disc 1 survives, along with a section of the connecting strip. The disc depicts a serifed A with a chevroned bar within a beaded border. Although the second disc is lost, part of the heraldic symbol of Ausberg, a pinecone, survives on the ingregral rivet.
Dimensions: length 22.6mm; width 19.6mm; thickness 4.2mm; weight 6.51g.
Seals from Augsburg date to the 16th and 17th centuries and are by far the most commonly continental seals found within Britain (Egan 1994: 106), cf. ibid fig. 41, nos. 308-310.
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.6 mm
Width: 19.6 mm
Thickness: 4.2 mm
Weight: 6.51 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 10th September 2017 - Sunday 10th September 2017
Rally details.
This object was found at West Ashford rally, Nr. Braunton, Devon, August-September 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 019349
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: North Devon (District)
Parish or ward: Heanton Punchardon (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SS5234
Four figure Latitude: 51.08617044
Four figure longitude: -4.11450819
1:25K map: SS5234
1:10K map: SS53SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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