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Record ID: NMS-732187
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-medieval lead two-part cloth seals, late 16th-17th century: - complete, weight 6.66g, diameter 19mm. - // - textile impression. - incomplete, weight 5.85g, diameter 18.5mm. 0 and very small fleur-de-lis in centre, no border // - rivet only.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: SF-8C31C6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead post-medieval double cloth seal. Only one complete disc survives with a fragment of what was originally part of another disc attached through a hole in its centre. The raised design of a sheep can be seen in the centre of its outer face. It is heavily corroded and there is a break across its centre. Egan writes 'stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period. They were attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. In England seals of this typ…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-109D02
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, weight 4.53g, diameter 19.7 - 21.5mm. The letter R within a circle and illegible and poorly defined legend around // rivet only. Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 7th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-107A00
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 from a post-medieval lead four-part cloth seal, weight 1.62g, diameter 13.2mm. Arms of the Commonwealth (off-centre) below two very small devices, perhaps multifoils. 1649-1660.
Created on: Monday 7th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-91ED52
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cloth seal, circular, weight 7.85g, diameter 22mm. Device utterly obscured by multiple stabbed impressions made with circular-ended implement, ...0N...visible in encircling inscription // rivet only, similarly stabbed. Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-0EB8B6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, circular, diameter 18mm, weight 9.44g.  The number 7 or the letter T with a slanting upright between an annulet to left and uncertain device to right // - with diamond twill impression on rivet. Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-0E6687
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Discs 1 and  2 from a post-medieval lead four-part cloth seal, circular, diameter 11mm, weight 2.69g.  - // confronting lion and unicorn above 1679 within pelleted circle.
Created on: Wednesday 26th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-0E107E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete disc 2 or 3 from a post-medieval lead four-part cloth seal, circular, diameter 13.7mm, weight 1.27g.  Eagle displayed, H A L I F A X ˑ 16 [...  cf. Egan 1987, 257 no. 2763 and NMS-A1C53A . 1649-60.
Created on: Wednesday 26th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9AB581
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal. Only disc one with its integral rivet survives. The front is stamped with the arms of Haarlem: A sword erect between four mullets a cross potent in chief, on an ornate shield within a circular border, all in relief. The edges are deformed and the legend is illegible. The rivet bears the number 19 in stamped relief. A close parallel on this database is NMS-8EE8EA. 17th century. Diameter: 25.8mm. Thickness: 4.2mm. Weight: 8.3g  
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-74F5EE
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, weight 3.57g, diameter 18mm. - // portcullis (rivet only). Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 12th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CCABEB
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a cloth seal, the central portion that would have been punched in the circular frame. A large letter A with a barred top and a downward pointing chevron for the central bar probably stands for the German city of Augsburg. Diameter 18mm, weight 4.08g. 16th/17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BA9829
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 of a post-medieval four-part lead cloth seal in worn condition, weight 0.77g, diameter 1.2mm. Lion rampant. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-279841
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, rectangular (with a small piece of one edge missing) 21 x 15mm, with a sub-circular diameter 9mm rear part.  + + I I / + V I I I // -    Similar to WAW-7903C6, LIN-52BC58, SUR-62B1CC and LON-92BEEA, see latter for a discussion. Weight 3.65g. c.1575 - c.1620.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-119F5C
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, weight 1.82g, diameter 13mm. Five-pointed star within circle (off-centre) // rivet only. Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B11B05
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy fragment from a Post Medieval cloth seal. The fragment is sub-discoidal (as flattened by the alnage seal matrix) with a short flat tab projecting to one side. The seal depicts a crenelated castle wall with an arched entrance gateway; above the wall part of an arcing beaded border can be seen. Cloth seals depicting images of castles are commonplace in Norfolk, as a lion surmounted by a castle is the arms of Norwich. No lion is evident on this partial impression and insufficient survives to be definitive, especially since many other non-Norwich seals depicting c…
Created on: Friday 10th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: BH-1F9D51
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy Post Medieval Dutch cloth seal dating AD 1600-1700. The seal comprises a broken disc and part of the connecting rivet. The front face depicts the shield of Haarlem depicting a sword, four stars and, above this, a cross patee. The design, in relief, is surrounded by part of the legend [HAE](R)LE(M) [GOET]. The opoosite face features part of the number 20 cast as central motif. For a comparable cloth seal on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database see SF-00C3F5.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7AFDEB
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, weight 5.40g, diameter 21mm. - // portcullis (rivet only). Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-78878E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probably post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, diameter 17mm. - //  3 short incuse lines (rivet only). 16th - 17th century..
Created on: Saturday 11th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-13A4EB
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Discs 3 and 4 of a post-medieval four-part lead cloth seal in worn condition, weight 2.42g, diameter 12.5mm. Lion rampant and a ?tree with crown above // -. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-22709D
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval or post-medieval lead cloth seal. The greater part of a single disc (disc one) is extant. Irregular in shape, but probably originally sub-circular. Stamped on the front with a relief design consisting of a large letter E surmounted by a crown with the number 4 inside. The integral rivet on the reverse bears a fragment of the design from disc two: part of a lattice, probably a portcullis. Cloth seals began to be applied in the medieval period, with documentary references from the late 14th century onwards (Egan 1998, 261); the alnage was administered until 1724 (Ega…
Created on: Monday 14th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th November 2022
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