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Record ID: YORYM1642
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Elongated leaf shape, hinged lid terminating in knob. Inner design leaf/heart, V shaped in centre rather than roundel. Champlevee enamel, orange in centre recess, uncertain (yellow?) outer with roundel projected inwards from proximal. Hinge broken, but v.g.c..
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-EEC1E3
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a small Roman co-alloy seal box. It is a flat cylinder with two small protrusions opposite each other. The visible side is decorated with a chess-board pattern (hatched and non-hatched fields) while on the other side remainders of the deep groove through which the thread ran, is still visible. Roman seal boxes were used for the securing cords of wax tablets - which were then subsequently sealed with a wax impression from a ring.
Created on: Monday 21st March 2005
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-28FAD7
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The lid of a cast copper alloy seal box lid dating to the Roman period, c. AD 100 to 300. The lid is an elongated leaf shape in plan and is separated into cells which would have held different coloured enamel although not much now remains. There is a main circular cell which is at the rounded end of the object with a smaller circular cell in the middle. This smaller cell still contains traces of blue enamel. Extending outwards from the larger circle to form the point of the leaf shape is a triangular cell which again contains no enamel. There is a very small circular cell which is att…
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 17th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PENDLETON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-422083
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete enamelled cast copper alloy seal box dating from late 1st to the mid 3rd Century AD. The seal box survives almost complete and in very good condition. Both the box and its lid are present with the lid still being attached to the box via a hinge on one of the sides. The seal box is pointed oval in shape and only the lid was decorated with enamel. The box itself is pointed oval in shaped, with raised sides and four holes in the bottom. On the opposite side of the hinge is a small lug to ease opening and closing of the box. The lid matches the box in shape but it slightly …
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.