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-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: DENO-938AE1
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval seal; impressed lead papal bulla of Pope Boniface IX, dating to 1389-1404. The seal has the usual portraits of Saint Paul and Saint Peter on the front face, identified by the letters ‘SP[A]’ and ‘[S]PE’ above the heads. The faces are shown facing three quarters forwards and towards the middle. They are within beaded ovals and there is a beaded line around the edge of the bulla. The back face of the bulla has the name of the pope ‘BONI / FATIUS / PP VIIII’. The bulla is somewhat worn, especially on the front face. The whole has a thick, even, cream-white patina. …
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melbourne Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-F47F07
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight, possibly an apothecary weight, probably Post-Medieval. The object is an irregular disc of lead with stamped decoration. The motif comprises two raised quatrefoils with a pellet between them. Below this is a crescent-shaped concavity.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-457382
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal. The object comprises one plain lead disc with a fragmentary disc atop it; these are attached at the centre, though part of the top disc is loose. The top disc has a central motif what appears to be a sword with a snake entwined around it. There is a low-relief pellet border around the diameter.
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brantingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-88CE35
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead seal impression, with two lugs or attachment loops at top and bottom. It depicts the Holy Mother beneath a canopy with the legend translated as 'The Holy Mother to the Justices of Ballywick of Bristol' (from finder). It is 13th century in date.
Created on: Saturday 28th May 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NLM6927
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bag seal, O, possibly a bust in centre, inscription around the outside vary worn. R, shield in centre, party per fess, top section halved, possibly an animal rampant, right field is very worn, lower field has a crown, very worn inscription around the outside.
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SELBY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID3147
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
The seal is made of two circular discs, joined by a connecting strip. One disc has a integral rivet. Both discs are damaged and broken, but complete. The seal has a uniface design which consists of a beaded border within which is a shield. The shield has a long cross in the centre. There are three '*'s, one placed at the terminal of the upper arm terminal and one at the left-hand arm terminal, with the third * placed in the upper left-hand corner of the shield. If there is any further decoration, it is not visible as the stamp was struck off-centre on the disc.
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WARWICKSHIRE TANWORTH IN ARDEN', grid reference and parish protected.