seal;
seal-impression
- Museum number
- 1891,0905.11
- Description
-
Circular bronze seal-matrix with hexagonal conical handle ending in a pierced trefoil. Crenelated gateway with a portcullis, a tower on top and side columns with pinnacles, each column having a cross on the shaft with a ring at the end of each arm. In the archway the head and neck of an ox facing; below, a shield of arms, a cross engrailed, between four martlets (Mauntell). At each side a zigzag pattern in the field. Cabled border. Wax impression.
- Production date
- 1456-1457
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Text from 'Catalogue of British Seal-Dies in the British Museum', A.B. Tonnochy, London 1952, cat. no. 184.
Obtained in Malvern.
Sir Walter Mauntell, Knt., was Sheriff of the Counties of Oxford and Berks. 1456-7, temp. Henry VI. He was lord of the manors of Nether Heyford, Farthinghoe, Grimscote, Wootton, and Over Heyford; he died in 1487 ('Herald and Genealogist', v, p. 193). His monumental brass is preserved in Nether Heyford Church, Northants. (Mill Stephenson, 'Monumental Brasses in the British Isles', p. 384, London, 1926).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1891,0905.11