cloth-seal
- Museum number
- 1856,0701.5504
- Description
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Cloth-mark; lead; from four part alnage/subsidy seal; inner, lozenge-shaped part; corroded; two unicorns supporting coronet, through which are three plumes.
- Production date
- 1660-1689
- Dimensions
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Length: 13 millimetres
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Width: 12 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- From a seal of the West Country series (see Nos. 8-10 and 98, all from the 1670s). Several more complete parallels with this stamp are known with DEVON, EXON (i.e. Exeter, e.g. D.U.A. MFS76 acc. no. 93, see Fig. 26; Egan 1985B/!992B, 3 fig. 15) and TANTON (Taunton) on the other inner part, and all these have the date (16)77, while one found in Stockholm with the county name SOMERSET has star-shaped inner parts and is dated (16)74 (Dahlback 1982, 273 fig. 255f); see Egan forthcoming B, fig. 10 for a 1674 Wiltshire seal.
(Egan 1994)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1856,0701.5504