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Cloth Seal, Loughborough, Leicester County, Alnage Seal

Cloth Seal, Loughborough, Leicester County, Alnage Seal, Image & Found by Darren White.
Found in Beeby, Charnwood, Leicestershire, 26mm, 17.53g.

Blank // rose with crown above, :LOVGHBORO.COM.LEST.* (S retrograde)

*Legend completed from BSG.CS.00938

A two-disc cloth seal (the appearance of an extra disc is caused by the flattening of the rivet stub during attachment) for Loughborough with COM LEST indicating the county. This and its parallel, BSG.CS.00938, are the only known cloth seals that have been found for this county. Warwickshire was counted together with Leicestershire in the mid-14th century alnage records but this seal is more likely to be from Tudor times.

Also recorded as PAS LEIC-4F59A3.

Date: 01/16/2017
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Cloth Seal, Loughborough, Leicester County, Alnage Seal
Keywords: Unique Identification Number - BSG.CS.01153 Date c 16th century
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