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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: 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: 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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Record ID: NMS-6590CE
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Post-medieval lead cloth seals: both two-part, one blank (diam. 17mm); the other a probable woad seal, with standing figure of native American holding bow // rectangular figure (? tower) within obscure inscription .........O ......... Diameter 22mm. 3mm thick. Weight 9.22 g. A dyer's seal (Egan 1994, no. 274). 17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AE0F8E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval tubular lead cloth seal. It has been flattened then slightly bent and has lost a few fragments from one end and from one face (worn breaks). It is now very broadly rectangular. One face bears part of the stamped image of a castle, oriented obliquely, with a letter N to the right. To the right of this, and near one corner, is a small section of a beaded circular border. The castle has three towers with crenulated battlements. One of the flanking towers is only suggested, since it falls mostly beyond the edge of the seal. The central tower is the largest and is m…
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1CFFD6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval two part lead cloth seal. Both parts survive but the connecting ligature strip is missing. The face of the impressed disc is decorated with a crowned portcullis within a damaged, incomplete and now illegible inscription. The reverse is blank. Diameter 27mm. 4mm thick. Weighs 9.63g. The portcullis was "the main design for alnage seals in the late Tudor period... and continued in use into the early seventeenth century" (Egan 1995: 9). Alnage seals indicated the cloth had been checked for quality by a Crown official and that the subsidy (t…
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4DFA17
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, diameter 24mm. - // crown over portcullis (rivet only). 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FE6F4F
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 of a post-medieval lead four-part cloth seal in abraded condition. Arms of the Commonwealth, [THE] COMMON WEALTH around. Diameter 16mm. 1649-60.
Created on: Sunday 7th August 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C5E7B0
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, rivet only, diameter 13.5mm. - // part of a privy mark or merchant's mark with R over M. Late 16th - 17th century.  Finder's number CMV/3
Created on: Friday 17th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-8A8B83
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, rivet only, diameter 11.5mm. - // part of a privy mark or merchant's mark. Late 16th - 17th century. Finder's number FCH7-14
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-344D66
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 from a 4-part lead cloth seal in worn condition, diameter 14mm: bust of George I facing right, ON ENGLAND around (1714 - 1724).
Created on: Sunday 29th May 2022
Last updated: Sunday 29th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F9541D
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead two-part circular cloth seal, diameter 22mm. - // one letter, illegible because partly obscured by the rivet. Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CF90E7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal. Only disc one survives, along with a short length of connecting strip and a squashed integral rivet. The disc is approximately circular, albeit with a small part of the edge (about 20%) flattened or truncated. It bears the letters NO / RWI / CH, in stamped relief. Late 16th century to 17th century. Diameter: 18.7mm. Length (diameter plus connecting strip): 21.9mm. Thickness: 2.9mm. Weight: 3.5g
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CF1263
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nearly complete medieval or post-medieval lead two-disc cloth seal. Both discs are approximately circular, although the bottom edge of disc one is missing, perhaps cut away, but not recently. Disc one bears the relief-stamped inscription I 5 8 / T R. Disc two bears the stamped-relief image of dragon passant to dexter (walking towards the viewer’s left). There is a near-circular hole in the centre of disc two for the integral rivet on the reverse of disc one. The rivet is visible between the two discs but does not pass through the hole. The connecting strip between the two discs i…
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 14th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-124672
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, with stamped letter ?V and A within a heart with divided vertically by an I or bar projecting above with cross potent to right (diameter 20mm). 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-121FEC
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead two-part cloth seal, with stamped number 45 on one face with integral rivet, the other part missing (diameter 26.5mm). 17th-18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-12A032
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 Post-medieval lead two-part cloth seals. One with large number 4 on one face and a seeded rose on the other face (diameter 16mm), the second with an obscure device on both faces (diameter 17mm). 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2022
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8974FD
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-medieval cloth seals, 16th - 17th century: - four-part, discs 2 & 3 only, diameter 13mm and 14mm. Lombardic letter N // uncertain motif. - two-part, diameter c.18mm. Uncertain motif (very poorly impressed) // letters M S intertwined with knots (incomplete, little more than the rivet).
Created on: Monday 21st March 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2901B2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete four-part Post Medieval lead cloth seal. Only half of the seal survives with the other two discs missing from the remnant of the ligature strip. The disc closest to the joining strip has an impressed long-cross quartered flat-top shield with three lis in diametrically opposed quarters and an irish harp and a rose in the other two quarters. The reverse of the disc furthest from the adjoining strip has an integral distorted rivet. Circa AD 1500-1650.
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2882A4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Elizabethan two part lead cloth seal dating to circa AD1558-1600. Both circular addorsed discs survive but the connecting ligature strip is missing. The outer face of the impressed disc is decorated with a crowned portcullis surrounded by a circumferential inscription suggesting an Elizabethan date (Egan 1992, 2) the inscription is largely illegible. The reverse has a central integral rivet which has been flattened into a corresponding hole on the impressed face. The portcullis was "the main design for alnage seals in the late Tudor period... and continued in use into …
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-EC51F6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 of a post-medieval lead 4-part cloth seal, diameter 12mm, partly illegible. / 6 ?0 9 1 / S 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2022
Last updated: Saturday 15th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9106A9
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete disc 2 or 3 from a 4-part post-medieval lead cloth seal, diameter 15mm. Monogram HAN with 1 above. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
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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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