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: 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: 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: BH-473505
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead seal of Roman date. Roger Tomlin (pers. comm.) points out that the majority of rectangular seals are legionary in origin (see Tomlin, Frere and Roxan eds. 1990, p. 93-100); however, the legend on this piece (see below) does not have an obvious military connection and must therefore be classified as 'miscellaneous'. The seal consists of a sub-rectangular block which appears to have been cut from a strip. It is unclear as to how the seal would have operated, as it lacks a hole for the chord to pass through. The legend has been deeply stamped into the surface, the letters themse…
Created on: Saturday 31st January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton Grey', grid reference and parish protected.

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: 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.

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Record ID: NCL-F4E5E3
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A simple lead seal decorated with an 'I' or 'H' on one face. The seal is a globular oval in shape. There are no other distinguishing characteristics to the seal.
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-499C52
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oval lead impression of a seal matrix, probably a personal seal. Thicker on one side. The impression is of the initials E W with a stem between them branching at the bottom and twice at the top.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bull Wharf', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-39AAF7
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead four-part alnage or subsidy seal stamped with a crown over a fleur de lis between the letters E R, therefore during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). “Lead seals were put on commercially produced cloths as part of a complicated system of industrial regulation, known in England as the alnage, under which quality control and the levying of tax of a few pence per newly manufactured cloth was administered until 1724.” (Egan in Saunders 2001, p.43) So this seal shows that an alnager, who was an officer of the crown, had given his stamp of approval: that the tax ha…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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
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Record ID: NLM-C401E1
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval lead seal, possibly from a bag. On one face of the seal is a plain cross in the centre of a shield. The top of the shield is missing. Bordering the circle is an incomplete circular border of annulets. On the other face are the letters W.L with the letters .IZ.K underneath. The top of the 'W.L' is missing due to the incompleteness of the seal. Around the edge of the letters is an incomplete circular border of annulets The surviving diameter of the seal is 21.10mm, the thickness is 3.9mm and the weight is 8.91g.
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-35C0A1
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small lead bag seal, with a stamped device. This device is formed of a ‘W’, with a crown above, and a plain wire border around all but the bottom of the W. The surface is smooth and light grey. This artefact is Post-Medieval.
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-0ADDD5
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Russian lead seal. On one side it the english equivalent of 'b (middle letter looks like an English 'R') and the third letter translates into the English letter 'n'. Underneath these letters is the date 1797.On the opposite side I have translated the letters as follows..the uppermost letter is 'd', underneath this there are the letters 'ye d m ye(?)' and underneath these the letters 't r ye v' and at the bottom the letters 'n' and a letter I can't decipher.
Created on: Thursday 11th March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NLM6926
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Three are oval, two of which have stars that other has an animals head. The other is circular with a shield at bottom three dogs? passent, chevron three stars on shield, Helmet above shield other decoration to the top and sides but very worn.
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: 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: NARC3
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
two holes top and bottom for the cord, impressed on both sides
Created on: Wednesday 25th August 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTHAMPTONSHIRE DAVENTRY', grid reference and parish protected.