Record ID: SUR-B9E608
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval two-disc lead alloy clothworker's seal. On disc has an alabourate monogram in a border of short, radial lines, the other is blank. The discs are joined by a short folded connecting tab.
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-1BB217
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cloth seal of Post-Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Diameter 27.0mm and 2.6mm thick. Weight 5.06g. 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'. The seal has been deliberately cut in half and has a clean smooth break. Disc 1, 27.0mm in diameter. Moulded shield with arms? at centre? Surrounded by inscription [HAE]RLEMS [GOET] ('goods from Haarlem'), also moulded. Disc 2 (formed by rivet head), 15.5mm in diameter. Moulded numeral 19 1/2 contained within a beaded …
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-7DBC77
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date, probably late sixteenth to early eighteenth century (c. AD 1550 - c. AD 1750. Maximum diameter 15.8mm. Weight 2.41g. This is disc 1 of a 2 disc seal. It has a clothier's/weaver's stamp with a conventional-form privy mark which has a cabled circle within which are the initials W, and S ligatured with C or O. The upper feature shaped like a number 4 is simply a conventional finial, while at the full base there may have been a pair of 'X'-like motifs. The rear face has an integral "blob", the remains of a rivet. There is a c…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-CB8123
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead two-part cloth seal of early/mid seventeenth century date, Norfolk/Norwich issue (c. AD 1600 - c. AD 1650). Length 22.2mm, width 20.0mm and 1.7mm thick. Weight 3.84g. The circular disc is disc 1 of a two-part seal. A small portion of the connecting strip has survived. The front has moulded capital letters in three lines: TO/NAR-/W-. The complete lettering would probably have been: TO/NARO/WE, indicating that the cloth was narrower than the regulation stipulated by the system of quality control known as Alnage. The reverse has the stub of the integral ri…
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2007
Last updated: Friday 21st June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IOW-405384
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date, late sixteenth or seventeenth century (c. AD 1575 – c. AD 1700). Length: 25.6; width: 15.7mm and 3.0mm thick. Weight: 7.94g. The object is sub-rectangular in plan and has slightly convex sides. It appears to have been made from a piece of lead which has been folded and soldered along one edge. One face has a clear stamp consisting of an inscription: XLIIII∙ within a rectangle formed by beading. The other face has part of a similar beaded rectangle containing the letter W with S H above. The object is damaged and has a bu…
Created on: Sunday 9th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-17A7C1
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date(c. AD 1650 - c. AD 1705). A seal for the Norfolk Weavers' Company worsteds. Disc 2 of a two-part seal (disc 1 is missing). -//WOR/STED/REFOR/[MED]. A textile impression is visible on the underside of the disc. A similar seal has been published by Egan. See Egan 1994, 46-48, fig. 22, ref. 87.
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-52B883
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A incomplete cast lead probable cloth seal of probable seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Diameter: 18.1mm. Weight: 2.06g. The disc has a raised design on one side consisting of beaded circle containing a figure 8 (or possibly a letter B) with a possible date below: 8 [?]/16?? Around the outside of the circle there are traces of an inscription which is severely worn and indeterminate. The other side of the disc is rough and plain. However, some marks on this side may be textile impressions. Small indentations around the edge may be where connecting strips joine…
Created on: Sunday 14th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-79D6B7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. Probably sixteenth to eighteenth century. Length: 19.6mm; width: 17.8mm and 4.0mm thick. Wight: 3.66g. The seal consists of part of one disc and the rivet head. The rivet head has a raised letter W with curving raised lines below. The rear face of the incomplete disc has traces of a textile impression. Buff patina and old breaks. A similar cloth seal with a letter W is illustrated by Egan (Egan 1994, 84, fig. 32, ref. 236). This example is dated ?sixteenth to eighteenth century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-4694F7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of possible seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Length: 15.7mm; width: 12.1mm; thickness: 5.0mm; weight: 3.37g. One side has a the remains of a beaded circle, but due to wear, no other detail is visible. The opposite side has a textile impression. The seal has a buff patina overall.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-55BEA5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete and misshapen cast lead cloth seal, probably of late seventeenth to eighteenth century date c. AD 1675 - c. AD 1800). Length: 39.0mm; width: 26.9mm; thickness: 5.7mm; weight: 16.67g. The seal is of two discs with an adjoining strip. Disc 1: moulded 8-pointed star Disc 2: (rivet head) inscribed numerals: 92 above a horizontal line and 43 (or 47) below.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.