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Record ID: IOW-233131
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete and worn cast lead cloth seal with a joining strip. Disc 1: King facing, on ship and wielding a sword; rose on side of hull. Disc 2: plain with rivet head. 24.9 x 17.6 x 3.2mm. Weight: 6.69g.
Geoff Egan has commented that it is apparently a new medieval type. It seems to have the basic sword-wielding king in ship-of-state as on the late medieval gold coinage, and the rose on the side of the hull may point specifically to Edward IV's ryal (aka 'rose noble') of 1464/5-70. Although it is extremely worn, an inscription can be made out surrounding the main device, but i…
Created on: Monday 4th January 2010
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: IOW-025EB5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast lead cloth seal of Modern date (c. 1800-c. 1900).
A two disc seal with a rectangular connecting strip.
Disc 1: Scratch marks including Roman numeral VI.
Disc 2: Broad arrow (on rivet), W ?D below.
The object has an even buff patina.
40.7 x 31.7 x 4.9mm. Weight: 20.61g.
The broad arrow signifies that the cloth seal was probably used on cloth belonging to the War Department.
A similar cloth seal has been recorded from West Clandon Parish, Surrey. See, Portable Antiquities Scheme find: SUR-AF4E05.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: IOW-5A65C5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast
and stamped lead cloth seal of 17th century date (c. 1660-c. 1675).
A four part seal, the inner elements are lozenge-shaped and the outer discs are sub-circular. The lozenge parts are decorated and joined together by a strip and the sub-circular parts are plain and joined together by a ‘butterfly clip’ rivet.
- //: WP privy mark (ligated) ..S..MERSET around// crowned portcullis// -
29.1 x 14.8 x 5.7mm. Weight: 5.95g.
This is an alnage seal with initials of the alnager: PW (or WP), who appears on several dated seals from various West-Country counties o…
Created on: Wednesday 14th October 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-F05B37
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of 16th to 17th century date (c. 1500-c. 1700).
Possibly scratched//privy mark incorporating a letter B (to right).
Other letters of the mark are damaged or incomplete and are unclear.
This cloth seal is similar, but not the same as one illustrated by Egan 1994, ‘Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum’, 80, fig. 30, ref: 215. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
Created on: Sunday 9th August 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-101761
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, probably 16th-18th century (1500-1800).
A two disc seal with a joining strip.
Disc 1: scratch marks - a plain cross and a possible letter F.
Disc 2: (rivet head) Letter M and possible other letter(s) within a beaded circle. This side is damaged and worn.
The seal has a grey/buff patina overall.
Presumably a weaver’s/clothier’s seal of the late C16th to C18th (pers. comm. Geoff Egan, 12/06/2009.
Created on: Thursday 11th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-CE7EB7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast lead two part Norwich Weaver’s Company cloth seal of Post-Medieval date (1650-1705).
The seal has a rectangular connecting strip that is 2.7 x 7.0mm. and has two integral discs.
Disc 1 has raised numerals: 28 ½ (in two lines). The head of the lead rivet in between the two discs joining them together is visible on this disc.
Disc 2 has a raised inscription in four lines:
[W]OR/[S]TED/REFOR/MED
The artefact is in good condition.
22.6 x 20.1 x 3.6mm. Weight: 6.92g.
A similar example, although for a textile length of 27 yards in length, is illustrat…
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-F329D6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete cast lead cloth seal. Probably eighteenth or nineteenth century.
The seal is a two-disc seal with a complete connecting strip.
Disc 1: 100 (stamped) with 45 below (inscribed) // (on rivet) 45 (inscribed).
The seal has a buff patina overall and the edges of both discs are broken in places.
Created on: Friday 10th April 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-50A876
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal, probably issued during the reign of Queen Anne.
This disc was probably part of a four-disc seal from the series featuring a monarch's head. As Egan (1994, 60) states, the relief designs on these alnage seals are characterised by fine detail resulting from well-engraved dies. The disc bears a female bust facing left, that of Queen Anne surrounded by the inscription:
FIDEI DEFEN (Defender of the Faith).
The side with bust has a shiny buff patina and the rear side is plain and has a rough surface with a buff patina.
Contemporary cloth sea…
Created on: Thursday 2nd April 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-CCDA04
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete but damaged cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1500 – c. AD 1650). Diameter: 21.7mm; thickness: 3.7mm; weight: 6.72g.
A two-disc seal with a connecting strip.
This cloth seal is corroded and worn. Consequently, it is difficult to determine the design on each face. However, it is probably a seal of Augsburg in Germany where fustians (mixed linen-warp and cotton-weft fabrics) were produced.
[Pine-cone] (possibly) // ornate A with a chevron bar.
The pine-cone is the heraldic badge of the city of Augsburg.
Examples are illustrated in Egan 1995.  
Created on: Friday 27th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Record ID: IOW-7869F0
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast lead circular cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. Length: 33.0mm; diameter: 25.0mm and 4.3mm thick. Weight: 12.83g.
A two part seal joined together by a connecting strip which has a width of 4.8mm.
Disc 1: illegible.
Disc 2: raised capital letters : S F over woolsack (on rivet head).
- (illegible)//S F.
Textile survives between discs.
Woolsacks are always a late (C18th) symbol on cloth seals (unless they are actually dyers' madderbags from the early C17th).
Created on: Saturday 4th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-77E5A5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead circular cloth seal of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1714 – c. 1727). Diameter: 15.5mm and 0.6mm thick. Weight: 1.67g.
An incomplete disc 2 of a four-part alnage seal.
Raised head of George I right with raised inscription around: GEORGIVS REX all contained within a raised rope-work circle. Part of the disc is missing due to an old break.
Missing //head of George I right//missing//missing
A similar cloth seal has been recorded from the Thames at Steelyard, London (Egan 1994, 67, fig. 27, ref. 154).
Created on: Saturday 4th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-B45F54
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of probable Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1500 - c. AD 1700). Length: 16.8mm; width: 15.5mm and 3.7mm thick. Weight: 2.74g.
The seal consists of an incomplete disc. One side of the disc has a moulded beaded circle containing a design, now illegible due to corrosion and damage.
This seal is fractured and in poor condition.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-032212
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date, early/mid seventeenth century. Length: 18.1mm; width: 13.8mm and 3.9mm thick. Weight: 2.76g.
The seal is of two parts:
Disc 1: Raised design of a castle with three towers (part of the disc is missing).
Disc 2: Raised Stuart arms of Britain (only part of the disc, the rivet stub, survives.
All the breaks are old.
Geoff Egan, Finds Adviser of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, has commented: 'several of these are known but none is complete. Possibly from Norwich but not certainly so'.
Created on: Wednesday 11th June 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
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Record ID: IOW-484DA2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead two-part cloth seal of probable sixteenth century date (AD 1500 – AD 1600). Length: 25.0mm; width; 20.2mm and 5.3mm thick. Weight: 7.53g.
The two circular discs would have been joined by a connecting strip. However, disc 2 is missing.
Disc 1 in light relief: Crown over portcullis with an E (probably) to left of crown. The surrounding inscription is incomplete and the surviving part is unreadable.
The flat head of the stub that formed part of disc 2 is plain.
Similar cloth seals depicting a crowned portcullis are illustrated in Egan 1994, refs. 41, …
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
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Record ID: IOW-A3E3E7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast lead cloth seal of probable eighteenth century date (AD 1700 – AD 1800). Length: 34.1mm; width: 25.3mm and 3.4mm thick. Weight: 9.88g.
A cloth seal of two parts joined together by a connecting strip.
Disc 1: Raised crowned letter H to left; raised crowned letter T to right. The letters have large serifs.
Disc 2: Possibly a privy mark (raised), vaguely resembling a capital letter E or F. This may be part of the weaver's initials.
The seal is in a stable condition and has an overall grey patina.
No parallel found.
Created on: Saturday 19th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.
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