Record ID: CPAT-087FD2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead alnage seal, probably dating to the reign of James I (1603-25) The seal depicts the crown above the fleur de lis with the initials I R all within a dotted outer and a continuous inner line border In this case, only the impressed seal disc remains from what is most probable a four disc cloth seal. It has an overall pale cream patina consistent with age.
Created on: Sunday 4th July 2010
Last updated: Sunday 4th July 2010
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Record ID: SUSS-8203B1
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the inner disk from a cast lead four-part alnage seal. It is flat on the back, the front is stamped with SER[...]//HE[...]//1628 in three lines with double roses to the left and below. It is 18.9mm by 16.4mm by 1.3mm thick and weighs 1.97 grams. It would originally have read: "serc//hed // 1628"; (ie the textile was examined in that year). It is probably from Kent by parallel with another, more complete, example from London, though the same alnagers initials (ligatured TH/HT) which appear on the other inner disc of the London example, along with the county nam…
Created on: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 15th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7CA7A4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a two part cloth seal with two disks joined by a tab which is bent in half. One side is stamped with a 'privy' or 'merchants' mark in the form of a vertical bar crossed by a saltire at the top with an S below and the lower end of the bar forked with another symbol attached to each fork, all within an octagonal border. It is 15.9 by 15.4mm and 3.6mm thick; it weighs 3.88 grams. Probably part of a cloth seal used by a weaver, dyer or searcher. The use of a privy mark suggests a 16th to 18th century date.
Created on: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7C6706
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a two part lead cloth seal. Part of the ring, disk and plug between them survives. It is stamped on both sides. Obverse: Crown over shield of England [S'VLII'PAO'VI]ALL[E'LON']. Reverse: ornate shield with equal armed cross, each arm made of thee lines, with sword in the first quarter (arms of London) [LONDINI PRO PANNIS LANICIS]. It is 17.4mm by 16.7mm by 3.5mm thick and weighs 5.47 grams. This is a cloth seal for woollen cloth made in London in the later 16th century (Egan (1994:40-41, no.61).
Created on: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-BD2482
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One disc from a probable cloth seal. On one side there is a circular stamp with a possible raised T design occupying most of the space. There is no obvious design on the other face, and the disc measures 17.78mm in diameter and weighs 3.63g. It is likely to date to the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 25th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baylham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AAAF61
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead bag seal from Portsmouth (c. 18/19th century). The artefact is sub-circular. It would have had a central recess through which a cord would have passed. It is stamped on both faces with motifs in low relief. One face has lettering across its centre surmounted by a crown and with a rose below. The letters are obscured as a result of corrosion but appear to read '?G POST?' The other face has the word 'PORTS[M]OUTH' within a circular border with a central motif, indistinct but sub square in form. On this face a lip has been formed to one side. The artefact has corrode…
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-A1A8A8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat square piece of lead with rounded corners stamped with a privy mark on one side and plain on the other. Probably part of a cloth seal used by a weaver, dyer or searcher. The mark is in the shape of a long cross with a base that splits into two legs with a V below, the arms of the V crossing the legs of the cross. There appear to be indistinct initials to the left and right of the cross, possible G/R or G/B. It is all within a circular line border. The use of a privy mark suggests a 16th to 18th century date. It is 16.8mm by 16.7mnm and 1.6mm thick; it weighs 3.04 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coldwaltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-AAAF87
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stamped circular lead seal. Late Medieval. seperated into four filed by solid straight lines. a riased pellet in the centre of the cross and an annulet in each field. A small scar at the top edge suggests that this is where the tag to connect it to the other half has broken away. Lead seals were commonly used in the textile industry to regulate quality and also to seal cloth bags of goods. This system was in use from the late 14th to the early 19th centuries. This example is one half of such a seal. This example is liekly to date to the mid-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-7EA464
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a two piece lead cloth seal. One side of the seal remains with part of the strip between them. At the centre of the seal is a hole where the point from the other part of the two part seal would have projected. The linking strip has a moulded design of raised parallel lines. On the remains of the seal is stampoed an ornate shield with a pale in a circular wireline border; around this runs the legend TVR[...] then a pellet border. The seal is 23.2mm in diameter and 1.3mm thick, the projecting strip is 5.8mm long by 8.3mm wide. It weighs 4.65 grams. Geoff Egan comments: "This is…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-6EEB43
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stamped lead cloth seal of George I (1714-1727), with the head of George I on the obverse and the one and a half on either side of the horse on the reverse symbolising the duty in pence. Egan (1994) illustrates a similar example on page 179, Fig.28, No.161.
Created on: Monday 23rd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-0F1686
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal of four-disc form, stamped on the inner discs, with the initial of the alnager: 'S' surrounded by the word 'HAMPSHIRE' inside a raised ring border: the other disc is stamped with a bird within a shield, which is in turn also within a ring border. The bird has a hooked beak and bells on its legs, above the claws, suggesting that it is meant to portray a hawk or a bird of prey. This seal dates from the 17th century (Geoff Egan pers comm).
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-0EA871
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stamped lead cloth seal of four-disc form: Disc 1: a tripartite motif with the number 24 below, which is presumably the length of the cloth in yards as measured. Disc 2: the initials of the alnager: TB to the sides of a flower (perhaps a pun on the surname - ? = Bloom/Blossom etc.) surrounded by a ring of pellets, with the legend 'HAMSHIRE' around the outside. Disc 3: a crowned heraldic rose. Disc 4: 'searched' written as SER/CHE/D. This seal dates from the 17th century, c.1600-1650 (Geoff Egan pers comm).
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-5DD5A4
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead plaque with three sets of stamped initials of post-Medieval date. The plaque was probably originally a rectangular plate, though is now missing approximately 25% of the plate, including two corners. Three sets of the same initials are stamped in three of the four quarters of the plate: WS, or possibly SM. Two of the stamps read the same (eg WS), while the third stamp is a mirror (eg reading SM). The style of lettering makes a 17th or 18th century date feasible. It is unknown what the purpose of the object was.
Created on: Wednesday 16th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-D71676
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval lead cloth seal. The Roman numerals stamped on the seal; XVIII over XVIIII are the specifications of the cloth bale that the seal was attached to. The back half of the seal is missing .
Created on: Monday 10th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BERK-025B58
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast and stamped lead cloth seal. The seal is of the two disc variety with two flat circular parts folded back to back with a connective joining strip. The front shows raised interlocking initials which are probably R H C and the reverse has E I stamped into it. Cloth seals had multiple uses including to indicate where the cloth was from, the maker's name, the quality of the cloth and sometimes whether the appropriate dues, taxes & levys had been paid. Seals were in use from the 1300s to the 1800s. Based on the style of the lettering this seal is likely to date c.1650-1750.
Created on: Friday 30th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clanfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-32C363
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post-medieval lead cloth seal of 17th-century date. This two-disc seal is of a type associated with imports from Haarlem in the Netherlands of a fine linen known in England as 'holland' (Egan 1994, 110; ref. 321). Disc 1 bears a moulded shield with the city arms: sword erect, four mullets to sides, cross potent in chief. Only part of the common inscription, 'HAERLEMS GOET' ('goods from Haarlem'), is on a disc seemingly too small for the stamp (at Dia. 18.6mm). Of the same diameter is disc 2 (formed by rivet head). It bears the numeral '20' in relief within a beaded circle; c…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-D35357
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Not strictly a trade token, this appears to be a lead 'disc' bearing the impression of one. The 'flan' is irregularly shaped, crudely trimmed, and of varying thicknesses: 2.85mm - 1.05mm. The token appeared to be related to a public house (the 'Hart'), although its location remains unconfirmed. Undated, this artefact is attributed the general range for trade tokens (c. 1648 - 1672 AD) as it would be most likely contemporary with token usage, albeit a later date cannot be ruled out.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B20737
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stamped lead alnage cloth seal of Charles II (1660-1685), consisting of two sub-circular discs joined by a folded connecting strip. The obverse face bears the image in relief of the bust of Charles II facing right. On the reverse is the image of a crowned thistle with the letter 'I' in the left field, but nothing to the right where the duty in pence is normally represented. The images on both sides are contained within a circular border of incuse rays. There also appears to be part of a border of stamped beading around the rays on the obverse, but parts of the edges are miss…
Created on: Monday 28th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-2040D7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead two-piece cloth (alnage) seal of post-medieval date. It is formed of two discs linked by a loop. One of the discs is decorated on its upper surface by a large fleur-de-lys moulded in low relief within a raised border.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BERK-27E9C3
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post Medieval lead alloy cloth seal (AD 1661). It is a Strasbourg seal for a strait (i.e. narrow) textile, presumably of linen. The disc of the cloth seal is in two parts with an interconnecting strip. On disc one the central motif is possibly the arms of Strasbourg, the legend around the central motif reads: STRASBVRG[-] GARTN[--] DZS. Disc two bears the same motif as disc one with ‘S’ above and ‘1661’ below, all within a laurel wreath. Dimensions: length: 49.39mm; diameter: 36.27mm; weight: 59.40g
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thame', grid reference and parish protected.