Record ID: SOM-DA992D
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: The seal matrix is of the pedestal type with a sub-oval face. The incuse design on the face consists of a shield, which has straight top and sides curving in at the base to meet in a slight central point, surmounted by a helmet with mantling to each side which continues down to flank the shield all within a pellet border. On the shield is a merchants mark in the form of a retrograde 4 (correct way around on the matrix) at the top with an elongated vertical line and diagonal line extending down from the top point to the left with a curled end; at the base the vertical bar…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland-Tout-Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CEAD82
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2018 T502: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: An incomplete silver pedestal seal matrix, with missing loop. The handle is faceted, hexagonal in cross section, tapering from the face of the seal into a double banded transverse collar at the juncture between the handle and loop. The latter is incomplete, but was probably originally trefoilate. The seal face is oval-shaped and engraved with a design depicting a lion lying right and facing the viewer, and with a more shallowly engraved sun in the top left corner. This is within a beaded border around the peri…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ravensden CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3A56C1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2018 T186 - submitted for considertation as treasure Description: Post Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with an incuse design of a coat of arms. The arms are described as they would appear on the seal impression (they are reversed on the matrix). Arms: Unidentified: on a fess engrailed, between three crescents, as many roses, impaling Williams: a greyhound courant in fess between three Cornish choughs proper. The shield has a straight top and sides and a rounded base coming to a point in the centre. The shield is outlined by a thin incised line and…
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caundle Marsh CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-734469
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T662: Disclaimed, returned to finder Circumstances of discovery: Metal-detecting on pasture land, with few nearby finds of comparable date with the exception of treasure case 2017 T661. Description: A Post-medieval silver seal matrix. The seal matrix consists of a flat oval swivelling bezel held in situ and still freely rotatable within its frame. The seal is double sided, depicting a bull's head facing left on one face, with five large pellets at the base of its neck, probably a simplified torse, and on the other depicting a hand emerging from a potentially …
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bradley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-46A145
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with a design of a heart pierced by two arrows in saltire with a row if short vertical lines above the heart and above them a crown and drops of blood to each side and below, all within a pellet border. The pedestal has six facets and narrows sharply from the face to the top. It ends in a double collar topped by three large suspension loops aranged in a triangle with the lower loops formed of a line that curls out ands projects slightly at the lower end and the upper loop topped by a projecting knop flanked by two s…
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E0E705
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with a design of a heart pierced by two arrows in saltire all within a pellet border. The pedestal has six facets and narrows sharply from the face to the top. On one of the side facets is engraved an initial I. The upper terminal of the pedestal is broken, only the lower part of two loops and the three-stepped collar below the loops remain. Several cracks in the upper part of the pedestal may relate to this break. The face is 14.2 by 12.3mm.
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.