Record ID: DOR-0C62D4
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy lozenge shaped seal box lid dating c. AD 100-300. The lid has a recessed panel on the front with two concentric circles. The central ring contains pale green enamel. A collared lobe, which would have formed the hinge which attached the lid to the box, projects from the top of the lid.  At the bottom of the lozenge is a roughly horizontal break. The lid has a dark brown patina. Reference: A similar example can be found on the database: LIN-EE9F08 Date: Roman Dimensions: 25.16 mm x 23.90 mm x 2 21mm. Weight: 2.51 g.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-27122C
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The base of a small circular Roman seal box dating to ~100-400AD. Andrews type C2. This is a circular plate that has raised sides to form the box in which the seal would be held. Due to post depositional damage and corrosion only about 50% of the sides remain. There are three holes spaced near the perimeter of the plate. The remains of a projecting lug is situated on one edge, this would be mounted on the opposite side to the hinge, which is now missing.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: BH-9F5D10
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman seal box lid dating c. AD 100-250. Description: The lid is a disc-shaped plate with a recessed circle in the centre surrounded by a slightly convex outer ring decorated with 19 moulded transverse ribs. The circular recession at the centre has a circumventing moulded band around its perimeter and a pellet within it.  The recessed circle is slightly convex, forming a very shallow boss at its centre, which has the remains of red enamel. The enamel extends through to the reverse. Parts of the edge are damaged. Part o…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-88F93A
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible fragment of a copper alloy seal box base of Roman date, c. AD 43-410. It is sub-circular in plan and, in cross-section, it is rectangular with curved edges. The metal has a dark green-brown patina, and the remaining sections of the box have since broken or worn off.  Thickness: 1.8 mm Weight: 1.1 g Diameter: 13.6 mm A similar object recorded on the PAS database is ESS-3BC262.
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Sunday 14th January 2024
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Record ID: SF-936370
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy seal box dating to circa AD 43-410. The extant element consists of the lid from a seal box. It is lozenge-shaped with rounded lobes projecting from the cardinal points. The apex lobe is missing but would been a hinge attached to the base. The front face of the box is decorated with a central floral motif of four petals arranged in the cardinal directions set within a circular border. Triangular knops are positioned in the field between the border and the outer edge at the cardinal points. The areas between the decorative features are recessed and w…
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Offton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-3FA358
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy object, possibly a seal box lid. This object is half of a circular cast copper alloy object with a peripheral flange, which was probably a circular seal box lid.  The object measures 33.3mm (diameter) and is 18.1mm wide, weighing 5.9g.  It is 3.6mm deep at the flange and 1.8mm thick away from the flange. The surface is a light brown colour with some green corrosion visible at the edges and sharp dark green decorative lines.  Assigning the side having the flange as the reverse, the central portion of the object (13mm in diameter) is domed upward…
Created on: Monday 9th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-3CE2C4
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal box. Circular roman seal box, front with concentric circles and remains of red enamel. Back with perforations. Suggested date: Early Romn, 100-200 Height: 26.5mm, Width: 21.5mm, Thickness: 5.9mm, Weight: 3.80gms
Created on: Monday 9th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-F06B37
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy and enamelled Roman seal box dating to c.AD 100-200. See Andrews 2012, type S3D5 . The box is rectangular in both plan and cross section. At the top of the box is an integral suspension loop and hinge holding the front and backplate of the box together. The obverse bears two overlapping curvilinear oval figures creating an X shape. Two further spots blue enamel occupy small cells formed by the intersection of the ovals. The background of the enamel motif is red. The reverse of the box has four small circular incisions. The use of polychrome enamel al…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2023
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Record ID: BERK-9E77F6
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lid from a copper-alloy zoomorphic Roman seal box. The lid is circular with a broken, prjecting loop from the top. The edge of the lid is decorated with two circumferential raided rims within which is a ring of raised dots. In the centre is a cast animal, possibly a big cat. The animal is rivetted to the lid with the rivet projecting from the back of the lid.
Created on: Monday 14th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th October 2023
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Record ID: NLM-D1CC39
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal box lid. Lid of a Roman seal box in the shape of a lamp, central bit riveted on. Suggested date: Roman, 100-300 Length: 30.2mm, Width: 17.7mm, Thickness: 6.9mm, Weight: 3.35gms
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-5962E9
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete enamelled copper alloy circular plate, possibly a seal box lid of Roman dating (AD 100 to AD 300).  The plate is flat. Trace remains of a catch plate or attachment lug are visible on the reverse. The upper surface is decorated, consisting of a raised border which is filled with two concentric raised circles. Between the border and the outer circle is a series of 8 smaller raised circles containing enamel (colour uncertain). The surrounding field has patches of a blue enamel. Inside the outer circle is a small central circle, the same size as the 8 small ones, n…
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2023
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: NARC-2AEAFE
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Seal Box of Roman date (AD 43-250). Andrews type L1D1. The object is composed of a lozenge-shaped base, with a raised outer edge, rounded knops left and right, a bifurcated rounded lower knop and projecting double upper lug with a short section of the hinge retains around the axis bar. The central plate has four evenly spaced circular perforations, one in each quadrant. Length: 29.39mm, Width: 20.44mm, Thickness: 3.69mm, Weight: 4.8g Seal boxes were used to protect the wax seal which held together the bindings of a packet or writing tablet. The holes seen …
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2023
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Record ID: SUR-87AD05
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lozenge-shaped enamelled copper alloy Roman seal box lid. The outer face has opposed symetrical bud motifs of retained metal, each comprising two pairs of C-scrolls back to back in the centre, with heart shaped buds to each side which taper into the corners on the long axis. These frame deep recesses for enamel, degraded remnants of which remain, possibly originally yellow or white. The centre line of the design has three lozengiform recesses between the opposed scrolls; these have lost all traces of their enamelling. The corners of the box has small projec…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8F3FFE
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman enamel inlaid copper alloy discoidal seal box lid with small portions of the edge and part of the hinge lug missing (all recent damage). Andrews 2012 form C1 with design D3.  A cell shaped like a "heart-shaped ivy leaf" is filled with orange red enamel and set within a circular field of enamel which now appears green. Reserved within this field is a penannular ring with round terminals. A line of reserved metal links the ring to the recess at the top of the leaf and another joins the pointed end of the leaf to the outer …
Created on: Friday 24th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
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Record ID: IOW-817D5E
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy seal box dating from late 1st to the mid 3rd Century AD. This is the main body of a seal box. The seal box is pointed oval in shape with rasied sides and four holes in the base plate, arranged in a diamond pattern. At the tip of the base plate is the remains of a small lug to ease opening and closing of the box. This box would have had a matching lid, that may have been decorated with enamel. Parallels are recorded under LANCUM-A46C18 and NMS-A4C401
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-471F96
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, cast copper-alloy Roman seal box, dating to c.AD 75-250. The object consists of two parts a circular dished lid and a pierced flat plate base. These are attached to one another via a hinge creating a box that is circular in plan and rectangular in cross section. The lid is circular in plan with deep downturned sides.  A sub-rectangular lug projects from the outside of one of this down turned edge. While at the opposite face, two semi-circular lugs, which form the lid's hinge also project outwards.  Between these later lugs fits the base&#…
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 27th December 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-03D118
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy seal box dating to around AD 100 - 300. Only three quarters of the lid survives which is elongated leaf-shaped (Crummy Type 4) or Andrews Type P3D3.  The attachment on the upper edge of the seal box is missing.  The lid in plan is drop shaped. The lower section of the lid is missing and has an irregular transverse break with the lower quarter missing. The upper surface of the box lid is decorated. The inner design is of a heart which encloses a roundel and a central pellet, with a second pellet at the apex of…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NLM-04D36D
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brown copper alloy seal box lid. Circular enamelled fragment of a seal box lid. Turquoise and red enamel. Suggested date: Roman, 100-300 Length: 18.9mm, Width: 16.2mm, Thickness: 1.9mm, Weight: 1.65gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2022
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Record ID: OXON-9FAB88
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete copper-alloy enamelled Roman seal box dating to the period c.AD 50- c.AD 300. Only the hinge pin is missing. Both the lid and the base sections survive but they are no longer attached to one another. The seal box takes the form of an inverted 'leaf' or 'piriform' which has a rounded terminal with small projections to either side of the narrower end on both halves. At the top of the wider end of the lid there is a single lug which fits in between two lugs on the box section.  Originally these would have been co…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: NLM-742923
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy with green patina, seal box base. Diamond shaped back of a Roman seal box. Suggested date: Roman, 100-300 Length: 27.8mm, Width: 18.2mm, Thickness: 4.2mm, Weight: 1.76gms 
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2022
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