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Unique ID: SOM-78E8F9
Object type certainty: Possibly
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An incomplete Post Medieval lead alnage cloth seal. Originally forming part of a four-lobed seal, the surviving fragment consists of just two discs joined together: approximately 70 per cent of disc 3 and 90 per cent of disc 4. The breaks are old and probably caused by the plough. Disc 4 appears to have a tab extending a few millimetres from the edge opposite disc 3. At the other extremity, on disc 3, a remnant of the connecting strip that joined it to disc 2 survives and is slightly crumpled.
Disc 3 is stamped with a design which, by comparison with similar seals, might be a thistle composed of a series of raised pellets, surmounted by a crown and flanked on the right by a letter R.
Length (both discs including tab and connecting strip remnant): 28.9mm. Width (disc 3): 10.8mm. Width (disc 4): 13.6. Thickness: 1.6mm. Weight: 2.16g
Similar examples on this database are SF4629, SOM-8C1932 and SOM-46B8EC and it is probably they are alnage seals of the time of James I or later.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.9 mm
Width: 13.6 mm
Thickness: 1.6 mm
Weight: 2.16 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2016 - Saturday 31st December 2016
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Other reference: SCC receipt: 019811
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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