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
Spatial data recorded.

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: 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-05FD42
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Post Medieval alnage cloth seal. The fragment consists on one side or a two or four part seal. On the front is a stamped design of a crowned rose with a C to the left within a pellet border. Several examples on the database have crowned roses with royal initials to the side (usually C/R etc) which are similar to this example e.g. SF-02F767 and SUR-FF8E42 where the design is on a four part Hampshire seal; they are thought to relate to Charles I, 1625-1649 AD. It is 15.6mm in diameter, 1.4mm thick and weighs 1.66 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 27th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Houghton', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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-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: 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
Spatial data recorded.

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
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: 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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-83F150
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment from a lead cloth seal. One face is stamped with a crowned AR, the other is blank.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-83C6B7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead cloth seal. Incomplete, four-disc type, with three discs surviving. One face is stamped with the bust of Queen Anne and inscribed MAG BRI (?with extra A) REGINA, and the other has a chained unicorn rampant, (?)2 to left.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-566B45
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two-part lead cloth seal with connecting strip. Disc 1 has a shield with a central device and a rectangle above it on one side. The other side has a privy mark on the top of the rivet (from the reverse of disc 2), with the intials I and ?P with three branching flowers and leaves behind. There are indistinct traces of a cloth impression on this side. Disc 2 is plain on one side, with a hollow centre and the reverse has the remainder of the privy mark; a beaded circular border with a knot at the bottom.
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dowgate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-49A992
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal comprising two discs and a folded connecting strip. One surface has a raised depiction of a deer running to the left with the initials RH above and to the right. The other surface appears not to be decorated.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brooks Wharf', grid reference and parish protected.