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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: NLM-760258
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead cloth seal. Paul Cannon kindly comments as follows: 'The crowned arms are those of the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. The inscription reads, starting at 2 o'clock, "[H]AERLEMS GOET" ie Haarlem's goods. The other face probably has the numerals '20'. For a parallel with the same inscription 'GETWYNT' from a Dutch museum see https://www.textielmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/05655 This is a much less common version of the normal Haarlem's seals of which there are many on PAS eg https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953338 For an explanation of Getwynt see http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=4965'.
Cast disc with a quasi-heraldic motif on its front, and a smaller [diameter15.7mm] disc flattened against its back; where not obscured the back bears the imprint of a coarsely woven textile. The front bears a central heater-shield charged with across potent, above four stars flanking a T-shaped object, perhaps a screw press. A label above the shield reads GETWYNT, and a spread crown topped by triangular 'fleurs' with pellets between is set above the crown. A circumferential legend reads: AERI.EMSGO.EI.
An O-shaped figure or letter appears on the smaller disc behind that described above, possibly next to another O and the two separated by a comma/apostrophe, all within a ring of pellets. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850
Diameter: 27.0mm, Thickness (overall): 2.8mm, Weight: 8.22gms
Inscription:
GETWYNT // "[H]AERLEMS GOET
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 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.8 mm
Weight: 8.22 g
Diameter: 27 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 10th April 2019
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM42763
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Bishop Burton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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