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SEAL MATRIX
Unique ID: NARC-579590
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete cooper alloy Seal Matrix of Medieval date (AD 1250-1450). The object is circular with an integral circular lug set at the top of the inscription (12 O'clock). The inner field of the seal bares the image of a bird, possible a crow moving left looking over its right shoulder with three feathers behind. The outer field of the object retains a legible retrograde inscription. The inscription reads: +S' ABBIS: S: RADEGVND. -- ABBIS is an abbreviated form of Lat. ABBATIS ("of the abbot").
The metal is a dark green in colour with a smooth patina.
Height: 36.09mm, Width: 28.58mm, Thickness: 2.94mm, weight: 11.3g.
This seal is then associate with Saint Radegund a 6th century (AD 520-587) female saint who's Premonstratensian Abbey is located in Bradsole near Dover another being a Benedictine Nunnery located in Cambridge (established 10th Century dissolution in 16th Century) along with some smaller parish churches named for the saint and a Monastery in Poitiers, France which the saint established herself.
More information on St. Radegund can be on the Jesus College Cambridge (of whom St. Radegund is one of three patron saints) website (see link):
https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/about-us/history/people-note/st-radegund
Notes:
Kind thanks are extended to Mr. Malcom Jones for his assistance with the inscription of this object.
Class:
official
Inscription:
+S' ABBIS: S: RADEGVND.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 36.09 mm
Width: 28.58 mm
Thickness: 2.94 mm
Weight: 11.3 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Preston Capes (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP5654
Four figure Latitude: 52.18141713
Four figure longitude: -1.18239402
1:25K map: SP5654
1:10K map: SP55SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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