Record ID: SUSS-AA79F5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval or Post Medieval incomplete two- or four-disc lead cloth seal. Only a fragment of the centre of two discs survive. Two-disc seals were formed of one disc with a raised cone in the centre which was pushed through the cloth and then through a hole in the centre of the second disc. The seal was then stamped across this cone flattening it and riveting the two discs together. This fragement is part of the cone and the upper and lower disc. On the front is stamped an unclear raised design, possibly a merchents privy mark. The back is plain apart from some incised lines. It is 1…
Created on: Sunday 28th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chichester district', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-F225E4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval two part lead cloth seal for linen from Courtrai (Kortrijk) in Belgium. The seal is formed of a rectangular strip with a flat ring at one end and a disk with central spike at the other. The strip has been bent in half, the spike pushed through the ring and then stamped and flattened. On one side is shield with chevron and engrailed border, the arms of the city, the shield is ringed by an illegible legend between line borders. On the other is stamped x54, a measurement of lengh, within a circular pellet border. 25.3mm long, 21.4mm wide and 4.1mm thick; it weigh…
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-6B5B14
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Medieval copper alloy thimble, probably dating from the 15th century. The thimble has slightly sloping sides and a domed top. The sides have been squashed inwards and there is a tear to one side. The surface is decorated with individually punched circular holes in a continuous spiral, starting from a bare 'tonsure' at the centre of the top and ending in a plain band at the base. Some of the pits pierce the metal. There is possible evidence of folding on the base which may indicate it was made by stamping, but this may be a result of the later squashing. The thimble is 19.6mm tal…
Created on: Sunday 10th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Worthing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-581148
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval lead papal bulla of Pope Urban. Bulla were used to seal official documents of the papacy which came to be called bulls after the seal. In the medieval period bull was only a popular term used almost promiscuously for all kinds of instruments which issued from the papal chancery, including indulgences, although it now has a more strict definition. The obverse depicts the busts of St Peter and St Paul each within an inverted pear shaped compartment defined by pellets. Only St Peter, on the right remains complete on this piece, his beard and hair are shown to be curl…
Created on: Sunday 14th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-365625
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy thimble of Medieval date. It is dome shaped (hemispherical) and measures 11.4mm in height, and 14.1mm in diameter at the rim, the walls are 0.8mm thick; it weighs 1.68 grams. The rim is unthickened, decorated with a double incised circumferential groove and has at least two opposing notches and a possible fold. The sides of the thimble are straight but slope inwards slightly towards a shoulder approximately three quarters of the way up the thimble. At the shoulder the sides turn more sharply inwards towards the top; where there is a central piercing. The sides and top…
Created on: Monday 13th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.