File:'Love and loyalty' 14th century seal matrix, reverse (FindID 87624).jpg

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'Love and loyalty' 14th century seal matrix, reverse
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Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2005-02-16 14:44:37
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'Love and loyalty' 14th century seal matrix, reverse
Description
English: Complete cast copper 14th century medieval seal matrix. The seal matrix is circular in plan and flat in section. To the reverse is a transverse circular loop that would have been held as the seal was applied. The seal die shows the design of two heads, a man and woman, facing each other with a flowering plant between them. The inscription, inscribed in negative, around the central design is worn, but reads JE SVL SEL DE AMUR LEL or ‘I am the seal of loyal love’. Anonymous seals of this type are known as ‘love and loyalty’ seals, due to their sentimental or witty designs and inscriptions, written in either French or English.

The seal is 20.28mm in diameter and weighs 4.2g. It has an even dark greeny brown patina. A similar example, though with the inscription Love me and I thee’, can be seen in Harvey and McGuinness, 1996, A Guide to British Medieval seals, number 83. Harvey and McGuinness reference the inscription recorded here on page 89.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 1300 and 1400
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 87624
Old ref: ESS-35C614
Filename: DSCN2226.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/51415
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/51415/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/87624
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Object location51° 52′ 54.48″ N, 0° 16′ 22.6″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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