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-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-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-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-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-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-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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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-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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