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A Post Medieval Cloth Seal
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Susheela Burford, 2020-09-03 10:53:48
Title
A Post Medieval Cloth Seal
Description
English: An incomplete lead-alloy cloth seal dating to the Post Medieval period (AD 1689-1702). The seal is sub-circular in form and represents two out of a four-part cloth seal connected by linear tabs, the upper set of which have been broken. One face depicts the bust of William III facing right with the inscription OF . ENG. LAND surrounding, all within a rope-like border. The reverse depicts a rose with a I above, indicating a duty of one penny, within a rope border. The object has a pinkish-grey patina. 

Leahy and Lewis (2018: 281) have stated that cloth and bag seals, dating from the Medieval period onwards, are important artefacts representing the regulation of the cloth trade. Officials representing the cloth makers, dyers and other traders required a mark, often a lead seal, to be applied to traded cloth that met a specific standard. Such seals are of particular importance because they can be used to trace the cloth trade routes across North West Europe, particularly between England and the Low Countries.  

Comparable examples recorded on the PAS database include: SUR-F22E64; OXON-EF489C; and SUR-CA081C.

The dimensions are as follows: 19mm in length, 13.5mm in width and 3.4g in weight. 
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 1689 and 1702
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1689-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindIdentifier: 1010128
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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/1114677
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1114677/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1010128
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location52° 14′ 20.04″ N, 1° 44′ 23.14″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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