Record ID: SOM-890444
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead cloth seal of probable post-medieval date. The fragmentary oval seal is the first disc from a two disc seal. It measures 22.3mm by 21.6mm by 3.1mm and weighs 4.8g. On one side there is a stamped crowned shield. Illegible writing is visible to one side. On the flattened rivet there is a zero and part of another number (possibly a seven) or letter adjacent. Stuart Elton kindly commented on this record: This is a cloth seal from Gdansk (Danzig). On a similar seal Egan (1994:113, no. 328) comments: The arms are those of Gdansk (the crosses are pattee in most versions). T…
Created on: Friday 19th October 2007
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Taunton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AF9833
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead cloth seal of post-medieval date. The two-piece seal measures 29.9mm by 22.5mm by 4mm and weighs 9.4g. On the external face of disc one there are lightly incised marks, possibly the letters XI. On the external face of disc two a monogram has been stamped surrounded by a border of pellets. This appears to be a G overlying an H. This cloth seal is likely to be the personal seal of a clothier, weaver or searcher.
Created on: Monday 26th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Queen Camel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D07A78
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two-part lead cloth seal. There are two, roughly circular faces. These are folded tightly together and joined by a small strip of metal. The seal has a design on one face and is undecorated on the other. Around the outside edge of the decorated face is an inscription enclosed by a thin raised border. However, parts of this are either highly eroded or missing altogether, rendering the inscription practically illegible. Only the letters SV and possibly L are visible. In the centre of this is the arms of England surmounted by a crown. To the left of the arms is a pellet and possibly a su…
Created on: Monday 8th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 13th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Queen Camel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3F15F8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead two disk cloth seal with a large letter A flanked with annulets and with an annulet below all within a pellet border on one side and with a pinecone in a cusped border on the other. The tab that would have joined the two disks is missing from an old break. It is 21.2mm by 18.5mm and 3.6mm thick; it weighs 6.87 grams. The design indicates it is from a mixed linen-warp and cotton weft fabric from Augsberg, Germany, dating to the 16th or 17th century. Cf. Egan (1994) nos.308-10.
Created on: Sunday 6th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Petherton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B39464
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval two part cloth seal with two disks joined by a tab which is bent down towards the back disk. The male disk is stamped with WG or WC with a dot in the centre of the C and a triangle, possibly a 2 or a 4, above, all within a pellet border. This is probably a 'privy' or 'merchants' mark. On the other side it has broken around the hole in the centre through which the tab from the male side would have projected before being stamped flat. There are traces of design around the edge, possibly including a crown or flower but most is obscured by the break and the bent over tab. I…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B3C844
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval two part cloth seal with two disks joined by a tab. The back disk is plain on the outer side and had a central projection on the inner side which fitted through the hole in the centre of the second disk and was stamped flat to hold them together; about four fifths of this back disk remains. Only about a half of the front disk, including the stamped flat projection remains. It was stamped with a 'privy' or 'merchants' mark in the form of a number four with an open point and an elongated central bar with a cross bar near the top; most of the mark is missing to the old bre…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B424B7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval four part cloth seal with two pairs of two disks. The disks are adjacent to each other with the smaller disks of each pair attached together by a rivet from one which is pushed through the other and pressed flat. The larger disks were probably joined by a tab opposite the rivetted disks but this is now missing. The small disks appear plain although there is a raised circle on the side where the rivet is squashed, the circle is irregular inside and may have had a desgin or it may simply be the result of flattening the rivet. One larger disk has the inscription *TAVNTON en…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C38643
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete two part lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. The seal is formed from two disks of lead joined by an integral strip. The edge of one of the disks has been bent slightly upwards. The two disks are attached to one another via an integral rivet in the centre of the reverse of one, which has been passed through a circular hole in the centre of the other. In the centre of the disk with the hole is the impressed design of a pinecone on a sub-triangular base with side projections, whilst in the centre of the other disk is an impressed ornate A with an annulet above and to either…
Created on: Friday 6th August 2010
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-274C74
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Seven complete and incomplete two part lead cloth seals of Post-Medieval date. each are formed from two disks joined by an integral strip. These disks are designed to be secured to one another via an integral rivet in the centre of the reverse of one, which has been passed through a circular hole in the centre of the other. In the centre of the disk with the hole on each seal is the impressed design of a pinecone, whilst in the centre of the other disk is an impressed ornate A. Similar seals can be seen on p.106 of Egan's (1994) 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museu…
Created on: Wednesday 11th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-27F8C4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead Post-Medieval two-part cloth seals of the same design. The seals would have originally been formed from two disks of lead attached together via an integral strip folded in two. These disks are designed to be secured to one another via an integral rivet on the reverse of one, which has been passed through a circular hole in the centre of the other. However, both are now incomplete. The surviving outer faces have the raised letters R B/F W surrounded by five cinquefoils. They presumably the seals of a personal seal of a clothier, weaver or searcher. The initials do not appear i…
Created on: Wednesday 11th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-27E286
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead Post-Medieval cloth seal. Orginally the seal would have comprised of two disks attached together via an integral lead strip folded in two. However, only one of these disks and a small section of the ajoining strip survives. The outer face of this has the raised letters R H with an interlace design between and interweaving the two. It is presumably the personal seal of a clothier, weaver or searcher. The initials do not appear in Egan's (1994) 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum'. However, similar seals, such as no's.211, 214 & 215 (ibid. 80) ar…
Created on: Wednesday 11th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-1CADF2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval (1450-1550) lead probable cloth-seal, although there is no apparent join between lower and upper half and no sign of rivet or connecting strip. It measures 24.14mm in diameter, is max.2.86mm thick and weighs 9.45g. crown over ornate shield, rose to left, sun to right, ...]NOR' IN COM VVILTEC around // large letter F, rose to left, sun to right, SVBCIDII PANNOR [...]VVIL[... around Geoff Egan comments 'This is a late 15th/ early 16th century seal of alnage of subsidy, with very neatly matched discs and a well concealed rivet '. Cf. Egan 1994 no.104 (disc one) and …
Created on: Tuesday 28th September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-03E628
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval two part cloth seal of the London Dyers Company with two disks joined by a tab. The back disk had a central projection on the inner side which fitted through the hole in the centre of the front disk and was stamped flat to hold them together. The front is stamped with III over a madder bag encircled by the legend [LON]DO[N S]TAL[L]. On the back is H'd. It is 27.9mm by 22.9mm and 2.9mm thick; it weighs 9.38 grams. These seals were in use by the London Dyers Company from the late 16th to 17th centurys. The III is thought to indicate the number of washes in woad for blue …
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mudford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2800E1
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval two part cloth seal of unclear authority / issuer. The back disk had a central projection on the inner side which fitted through the hole in the centre of the front disk and was stamped flat to hold them together. The front is stamped with either 95 of 56 over or under other unclear symbols all within a pellet border. On the back is a faint, unclear design, possibly a shield. It is 23.5mm by 21.5mm and 1.3mm thick; it weighs 5.55 grams. Although the design is mostly illegible it seems similar in form to local town seals of the 16th and 17th century although other types…
Created on: Friday 29th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mudford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-903095
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal dating from the sixteenth or early seventeenth century. The broadly circular seal has a diameter of 18.1mm, a thickness of 4.6mm and weighs 5.2g. It is the first disc from a two-part seal from the German city of Augsburg. On the exterior face there is a letter A. The motif on the rivet on the other side is unclear, but by comparison with other similar seals it would have been a pine cone (see for example nos. 308 and 309 in Egan's 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum'). This was the heraldic badge of the city.
Created on: Monday 30th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crewkerne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EA8141
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead cloth seal of post-medieval date. The two disc cloth seal measures 26.6 by 19.5mm by 4.9mm and weighs 10.3g. On the exterior of disc 1 there is an indistinct motif which is possibly a letter C. On the exterior of disc 2 there is a probable portcullis with two annulets on one side.
Created on: Monday 15th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Queen Camel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-82F8A6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The fragmentary first disc from a two disc cast lead cloth seal of probable seventeenth century date. The fragment measures 28.4mm by 23.14mm by 3.5mm and weighs 9.86g. The external face depicts a shield on which there is a upwards pointing sword with two mullets on each side and a cross pattee above. These are the arms of the city of Haarlem in Holland. Around the arms is the legend HAERL[EMS GOET], meaning goods from Haarlem. On the rivet is the number 20, which indicated the length in Dutch ells of the cloth being certified. Around the rivet is the impression of a finely woven cloth.
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-91C9A8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval Post office lead bag seal, dating to AD 1690-1708. Sub-circular in plan with one convex face and one concave. No detail remains on the obverse face. The reverse is stamped with a design of two oval shields, the left bearing an eagle displayed, with head to the left, the right a dolphin embowed with two saltires in chief. Diameter: 21.94mm, Thickness: 5.97mm, Weight: 10.24g These arms relate to Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas Frankland, the senior and junior Postmaster General between 1690-1708. A similar example can be seen recorded on this database, WILT-AFD0C4. Fo…
Created on: Thursday 11th March 2010
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crewkerne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR101
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Small lead cloth seal. Sub-circular. Fleur-de-lis decoration on one face. Late 16th to 17th C.
Created on: Monday 4th October 1999
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SP1', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR102
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-circular lead cloth seal. Possibly George I period (1714 - 1727). United rose and thistle in crown on one face.
Created on: Monday 4th October 1999
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SP1', grid reference and parish protected.