Not a Cloth or Bag Seal, Capacity Seal, Image & Found by Paul Quirke.
Found near Modbury, South Hams, Devon.
Looped lead strip around a pottery handle
See PAS BERK-BB2FA9 for a similar object, "A similar find was recorded on the PAS database: LIN-940385 which was found in Lincolnshire and was identified by Geof Egan who commented that, 'This is a regulatory capacity mark, showing that the particular stoneware vessel had been checked and was officially found to hold the correct volume of liquid. Usually these marks were stamped integrally near the rim and close to the handle before firing. The added lead versions are far less common. The phenomenon of marking began under William III (1694–1702)' (Egan in Post-Medieval Archaeology 40/2 (2006), 301–315)."
