Record ID: NMS-8E3471
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy possible Post Medieval cloth or bag seal fragment. A flat strip of lead is impressed on one side with a circular cartouche, within which there appears to be a cuirassed left facing male bust wearing peaked headgear, possibly an English civil war helmet. The strip has a full thickness sub circular hole in the 8 o'clock position relative to the upright bust. No parallel could be found. Circa AD1642-1750.
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 14th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-510E9A
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted post-medieval lead two-disc cloth seal. Probably about sixty per cent of disc one is extant. It is uncertain how much of disc two is extant. They are both irregular shapes, and are connected by a strip which is more of an elongation of disc two than a distinguishable part. Disc one’s rivet projects obliquely rearwards from the very edge of the disc (an edge which is probably a worn break), passes through a hole in disc two and terminates in a point. Disc one bears a small but complete stamped design of a crown within a circular beaded border. There is a…
Created on: Monday 29th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-50C7B2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete medieval or post-medieval lead two-disc cloth seal. Both discs are approximately circular and the seal is closed. Both discs are stamped with letters, but the surfaces of are worn many of the letters are indistinct and some others may have been obliterated. In the following transcriptions [?] = unidentified letter or letters, B? = perhaps a B. Disc one: R [?] / [R or K] GE (E smaller and ligated to G) P / B? C?. Disc two: R M? / [?] Late 14th to early 18th century. Diameter: 21.2mm. Thickness. 3.0mm. Weight: 6.3g
Created on: Monday 29th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BC378E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete late medieval to post-medieval lead two-disc cloth seal. It has been closed but the two discs are now dislocated from each other. Disc one retains its rivet and disc two has a circular hole in the centre. The connecting strip is a bit distorted but complete. Both discs and the rivet are stamped with figures in relief. Disc one is bears a lower-case letter h or b, whose lower edge falls beyond the edge of the disc (and is thus missing). There is an annulet on each side, left and right, and part of a beaded border above. On the reverse, the rivet is covered with a cross-h…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2021
Last updated: Monday 20th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-52D85E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Near-complete post-medieval two-disc lead cloth seal. Disc one is stamped with two lions passant to dexter, one above the other, and both above the date 1636, all in relief. A raised circular beaded border survives around about fifty per cent of the perimeter. A rectangular connecting strip projects leftward from this disc, bends double and terminates in an old break. On the reverse is a central circular groove, most probably the remnant of an integral rivet, now missing. Disc two is connected on the opposite (right) side. It is position is approximately on the same plane as disc one …
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-123B07
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal. Only disc one, which appears to have lost some of its original edge, and a part of the connecting strip survive. The front is stamped with the date 1632 above the letters R F, all within a circular border, only a part of which is extant. Between the letters is a small cinquefoil. Above this, and still between the letters are four smaller circular dots arranged in a lozenge formation. Beneath the cinquefoil, and mostly beneath the letters is a group of seven similar dots. These could be described as arranged in two overlapping lozenge formation…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FBDA17
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal. Only disc one survives, which has lost some, perhaps most of its original edge and is now an irregular shape. The connecting strip and any other discs are missing. The front is stamped with the numerals XX / III, or alternatively III / XX, in relief. The flattened rivet on the reverse bears the relief-stamped letters I and what might be incomplete A or an F, but may not be a letter at all. Late. 16th to early 17th century. Length: 16.5mm. Width: 15.4mm. Thickness: 2.9mm. Weight: 2.9g.
Created on: Monday 1st November 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C0E9DA
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal. Disc one survives virtually complete, with a flattened rivet on the reverse. The connecting strip and any other discs are missing. It is nearly circular, with approximately eighty percent of its original edge extant. The remaining twenty per cent consists of a jagged and worn break. The front is stamped with a large letter A (for mixed linen-warp and cotton weft fabrics from Augsburg, Germany) with an annulet on the right and another below. There is potentially a third annulet, or a different figure of similar size to the annulets, on the left…
Created on: Friday 29th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7D7CDA
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probably post-medieval two-disc lead cloth seal. The two discs are joined by a connecting strip. Disc two is circular. Disc one is slightly less so and may have lost some of its original edge. Disc one and part of the connecting strip are stamped with letters and numbers […]LE / 158, probably within a circular beaded border, only a part of which has landed on the seal. The numbers are perhaps part of a 16th century date. The rivet on the reverse of disc one passes through a hole in the centre of disc two and is compressed flat. Possibly 16th century. Length: 21.0mm. …
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-585C3E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 from a four-part lead cloth seal, diameter 17.3mm, in rather worn condition. Rectangular structure surmounted by a smaller, domed object and supported on four pillars with a cross between the central pair. CAN[ around. This may be a Canterbury seal depicting the shrine of St Thomas (destroyed in 1538). No similar piece was noted by Egan 1987 and none occurs on this database. 15th - early 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-4244CD
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead worsted reformed cloth seal, consisting of part of a single disc with a connecting tab that terminates in a worn break, and a smaller fragment of a second disc adhering to the reverse of the first. Approximately sixty to seventy per cent of the first disc survives and just under half of its edge appears to be original, the rest is a worn break or breaks. The front is stamped with the letters WO[R] / STE[D] / RE[F] within a raised circular border. The latter letters and a large part of the border fall beyond the original edge (and are thus missing). …
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th February 2022
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Record ID: LVPL-479D88
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy cloth seal dating to the post medieval period (c.AD 1600-1700). The object is circular in shape and consists of one whole plate and a fragment of a second plate. The complete face present a raised design which is possibly a shield with a voided cross in the centre. It has a slightly raised border. The reverse presents a knop that was likely used to attached the two plates together, a raised rib crosses the centre of the back of the complete plate. A small portion remains of the second plate that also appears to be decorated. The object has a pale brown / …
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B39E14
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval two-part lead cloth seal, diameter 21.5mm. Crude incuse cross-hatching // privy mark within pelleted border, a cross above two horizontal bars with, in the lower part, a heart subdivided into three, each containing a letter, R to left, P to right and illegible below. 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 11th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B3530C
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval four-part lead cloth seal, diameter 11.5 and 13.8mm. - // bust of William III facing right, OF.ENG.LAND around // missing // crowned WR (rivet only). 1694 - 1702.
Created on: Sunday 11th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2021
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Record ID: SF-F7736F
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead post-medieval cloth seal. Only one sub-circular disc survives. The outer face of this is decorated with the raised letters W // XXX. A small integral rivet projects from the centre of the reverse. To one side there is a break where it would have attached to another disc originally. The style of lettering suggests a 16th or 17th century date. 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 q…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxlingham Nethergate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F76C2B
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead post-medieval two-part cloth alnage seal. Both parts are sub-circular in shape and they are joined by a long strip folded in two. One part has a sub-circular hole through the centre and the other a sub-circular projection from the centre of the reverse, which has been passed through the hole and hammered flat to fill it, dividing it into two parts in the process. One face has a bust left with the letters OF ENG behind and the other face a fleur de liswith the number 1 to the left and 1/2 to the right (the duty in pence). The surface of the metal is corroded and there i…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 18th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bracon Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F76545
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An ?incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal. Formed from two sub-oval discs joined at one end. Any design on each face is entirely obscured by corrosion and damage. A rock and sand are embedded in one face. Probably fairly late in date given the design. 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 type were current from at least the late fourteeth to the early nin…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 18th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bracon Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F75EB8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead post-medieval two-part cloth seal. Both parts are sub-circular in shape and they are joined by a long strip folded in two. One part has a sub-circular hole through the centre and the other a projection from the centre of the reverse, which has been passed through the hole and hammered flat to fill it. One face has the letters AF on it and the other an unclear monogram or other design. It is hevaily corroded and bent out of shape. The letter on one face suggests that this may be a clothier, weaver or searcher's seal, which are often difficult to assign to a specifi…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 18th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxlingham Nethergate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F75791
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead post-medieval two-part cloth seal. The surviving section is sub-circular in shape, its outer face bearing the inscribed letters PF. A small part of the other section is attached to the centre of its reverse. The strip that would originally have joined the two sections is missing. The style of lettering suggests an 18th or 19th century date. 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 q…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 18th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxlingham Nethergate', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-250A20
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, diameter 17mm. Arms of England, probably Elizabeth I // illegible (rivet only). 1558 - 1603 Finder's no. POD 11/13
Created on: Saturday 28th November 2020
Last updated: Saturday 28th November 2020
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