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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: WMID-5EC199
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete lead or lead alloy cloth seal. The seal is sub-circular with a partial connecting lug at one end and evidence of a lug connection at the opposite end suggesting either disc 2 or 3 of a four-disc seal.
The face of the seal disc depicts a coat-of-arms comprising a shield in four quarters. The top right quarter of the sheild depicts a lion rampant; the bottom left quarter depicts a harp. The remaining two quarters of the shield are further sub-divided into four quarters, each one showing three lis in the top left and bottom right and three lions passant in the other two quarters.
The reverse of the seal disc is plain and undecorated.
The object is 19.4 mm long, 12.1 mm wide and 2.1 mm in thickness (or height). The object weighs 1.7 g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.4 mm
Width: 12.1 mm
Thickness: 2.1 mm
Weight: 1.7 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st May 2017 - Monday 1st May 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Staffordshire (County)
District: Stafford (District)
Parish or ward: Gnosall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SJ8321
Four figure Latitude: 52.78630342
Four figure longitude: -2.2535045
1:25K map: SJ8321
1:10K map: SJ82SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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