Record ID: SUR-3BF394
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A cloth seal from Augsburg in Germany, for an imported fustian textile (mixed linen and cotton). One side bears a pine cone (the symbol of Augsburg) within a circular frame of arches and trefoils. The other side shows an ox passant (a quality symbol).
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: IOW-7DBC77
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 late sixteenth to early eighteenth century (c. AD 1550 - c. AD 1750. Maximum diameter 15.8mm. Weight 2.41g. This is disc 1 of a 2 disc seal. It has a clothier's/weaver's stamp with a conventional-form privy mark which has a cabled circle within which are the initials W, and S ligatured with C or O. The upper feature shaped like a number 4 is simply a conventional finial, while at the full base there may have been a pair of 'X'-like motifs. The rear face has an integral "blob", the remains of a rivet. There is a c…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-1BB217
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cloth seal of Post-Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Diameter 27.0mm and 2.6mm thick. Weight 5.06g. This two-disc seal is of a type associated with imports from Haarlem in the Netherlands of a fine linen known in England as 'holland'. The seal has been deliberately cut in half and has a clean smooth break. Disc 1, 27.0mm in diameter. Moulded shield with arms? at centre? Surrounded by inscription [HAE]RLEMS [GOET] ('goods from Haarlem'), also moulded. Disc 2 (formed by rivet head), 15.5mm in diameter. Moulded numeral 19 1/2 contained within a beaded …
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-D0D1E4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead two-part cloth seal of Post-Medieval date, probably seventeenth century (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Diameter 29.0mm, thickness 1.2mm. Weight 9.51g. Disc 1: Moulded decoration at the front with a plain border which may have had an inscription but is now worn and smooth. Within an inner circle it is divided equally by three linear ribs. In the top segment there are five vertical ribs. The left lower segment has a square shield within which are three lis (two over one). The right lower segment has linear ribs, some forming a lozenge shape which enclose five lis (one at…
Created on: Wednesday 11th April 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-A82F95
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 late seventeenth or early eighteenth century (c. AD 1650 - c. AD 1750). Diameter 27.0mm, thickness 3.2mm. Weight 10.67g. A two part seal: Disc 1 has scratched numerals: 9077/21 (possibly). The two numbers are divided by a scratched horizontal line which extends from one side of the disc to the other. Only part of disc 2 survives. This has part of a design which is now indeterminate. There is a cloth impression on the reverse side of disc 1. Part of the connecting strip on disc 1 has survived. Although incomplete the se…
Created on: Friday 16th March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-079E21
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 - AD 1705). Maximum diameter 19.0mm. Weight 2.78g. Disc 1 of a 2 disc seal. The connecting strip is missing and on the reverse of disc 1 is a flattened rivet with a casting seam at either side of the rivet. An impression was made on the reverse of the disc when the seal was attached to the cloth. This impression is clearly visible. Disc 1: NOR/WICH/??? At least three other letters beneath WICH are barely visible and indeterminate. The seal is in good condition and has a buff patina on both faces. This is …
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-AF8773
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of late sixteenth or seventeenth century date (c. AD 1575 - c. AD 1700). Diameter 14.0mm and 2.1mm thick. Weight 2.28g. A two disc seal. However, the connecting strip and disc 2 are missing. The face of disc 1 is decorated with a moulded bird facing left with its wings in the "close" (closed) position. The surface of the burred-over rivet on the other side has the remains of a moulded design which appears to be the ligature: R (reversed), O (with horizontal joining line). There was probably a further initial off the rivet to the right which is now…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-0DDF13
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date. Late sixteenth or very early seventeenth century (c. AD 1550 - c. AD 1605). Disc 1 Burred over rivet head: Portcullis with surrounding placename missing. disc 2: XXV. The 25 (possibly incomplete) is presumably the pounds weight or the yards length.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-D420A7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded fragment of a cast lead cloth seal of sixteenth century date (AD 1500 - AD 1600). Maximum diameter of central portion 14.0mm, thickness 3.0mm. Weight 3.45g. The fragment is just the central part of a two-part seal. Consequently, only part of the design has survived on each disc. Disc 1: Arms of England in raised relief. Disc 2: Cross in raised relief. From parallels, disc 1, if complete, would depict a crown over royal arms of England with ER to sides. On disc 2, a cross with a sword in the first quarter (arms of London). Alhtough the outer part of each disc is …
Created on: Sunday 17th September 2006
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-586A31
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead cloth seal with one disc surviving, measuring c. 20.5 mm in diameter. Geoff Egan has identified this seal (pers comm 9/2006) as a London Dyers' Company seal from the early 17th century. It bears a standing figure, possibly an American Indian, with a bow and arrow. To either side of his lower legs are the initials T C. A similar design, but without the initials, is known on a couple of near parallels - one in the British Museum catalogue (Egan, 1995, 187, fig 36, no. 275), and the other from near Trig Lane on the Thames foreshore in the City of London. This was the location of …
Created on: Monday 11th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gedgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-B1FEE1
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn lead cloth seal of probable 16th or 17th century AD date. The object consists of two sub-circular discs joined by a folded connecting strip. One of the discs has a privy mark with the initials "G" and "B" either side of a vertical bar. The other disc is blank. The seal measures 16.9mm in diameter, by 3.2mm thick and weighs 5.44g.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-801996
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Published
A lead cloth seal, probably 17th century in date. The seal bears a double-headed eagle in its centre, with upwardly curving spread wings. A circle separates the eagle from the inscription which reads: HEPERSEE[R] or [K]... (probably the name of a clothier). There are two dotted circles outside the inscription. The reverse is inscribed with GOV/DA, again within a dotted circle. This inscription identifies the seal with the city of Gouda in the Netherlands. Geoff Egan (Finds Adviser) has confirmed that this is the first cloth seal from Gouda to be recorded in Britain. It is evi…
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-865735
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval Dutch lead alloy cloth seal, 23mm long, 18mm wide and 4mm thick. The seal is in good condition with a cream patina and a weight of 9.64 grams. It is sub circular in form and on one side it has a raised border which contains R&A 361 (a control number). The other side has a beaded border with contains a Royal crowned crest showing a rampart lion holding a sword or staff.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2006
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
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Record ID: DENO-7E2517
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Stamped lead cloth seal, two discs joined by a folded tab but apparently no rivet. There is crudely stamped decoration both faces; dragon or griffin rampant in profile left on one face, within dotted circle having figure 5 at 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock. The other face has two lions passant guardant left within dotted circle. Thickness quoted is that measured over fold. The lack of a rivet implies that these discs are the inner discs from a four-part seal. The device of two lions passant guardant is found on several other 17th-century four-part seals, such as IOW-550FC9, SWYOR-2676E1 a…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2018
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Record ID: WAW-989258
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
The incomplete four-disc cloth seal is made from lead. The first and second discs do not survive but the third is sub-circular with an integral strip attaching the fourth disc, which has a central hole. The third disc is stamped with a harp with 58/..I above. The surface of the seal is oxidised forming a light brown coloured surface. It measures 30mm long, 14.45mm wide and 1.79mm thick. It weighs 3.2g. Cloth seals were in use between the 14th and 18th centuries (Egan, G. 1989 ‘Leaden Seals for Textiles – Some Archaeological Evidence Relating to Fabric and Trade’ Costume No.…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LIN-83FFE5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval lead cloth seal with part of a a privy mark having the initials AR stamped on it (?more above but offstruck). The sealing survives as a single strip of lead folded over.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2006
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
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Record ID: LIN-83F150
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment from a lead cloth seal. One face is stamped with a crowned AR, the other is blank.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LIN-83C6B7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead cloth seal. Incomplete, four-disc type, with three discs surviving. One face is stamped with the bust of Queen Anne and inscribed MAG BRI (?with extra A) REGINA, and the other has a chained unicorn rampant, (?)2 to left.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HESH-33CDF1
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead-alloy inner disc from a four-part cloth seal, dating from the first quarter of the 17th century into the early 18th century (c. 1625-1725). The disc is circular with a flat sub-rectangular cross section; the edges are slightly bevelled. A small rectangular projection or tab extends from one edge, now folded back upon itself and broken (recent unpatinated break). The front has a cast relief design of a winged female (an angel) with arms extended. In the left hand the angel holds a sceptre-like item (from parallels, probably a palm branch) and the right an orb-like item (ag…
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
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Record ID: BH-33D0E6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead "Worsted Reformed" cloth seal produced in Norfolk in the late 17th century AD. The object consists of two circular discs joined by a connecting strip. One of the discs bears the legend "WORSTED REFORMED", while the other side is heavily worn and bent but has "2(7)", denoting the length, in yards, of the cloth. The discs measure 18.7mm in diameter and 5.5mm thick in total. The weight is 4.89g.
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offley', grid reference and parish protected.