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Cloth Seal, Exeter, Alnage, Unicorns Supporting Three Plumes, 1677

Cloth Seal, Charles II, Alnage, Unicorns, Image & Found by Tony Thira.
Found on the Thames foreshore just upstream London Bridge, north side, total length 60mm, discs diameter 12mm, rectangular sections 14mm.

Blank // five rayed asterisk, EXON (retrograde N) above, .77. below, all in border of annulets // two unicorns supporting a coronet with three plumes through, all in border of circle and annulets // blank

Complete, opened, four sectioned alnage seal with two sub-rectangular sections.

See P.73, Provenanced Leaden Cloth Seals by Geoffrey Egan, Sub-Department of Medieval Archaeology, University College, University of London, submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1987. "(i.e. 1677) The inner parts here are square and the outer parts are round" Also No.128, Fig.26, Geoff Egan, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' Occasional Paper 93.

Date: 07/15/2014
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Keywords: Unique Identification Number - BSG.CS.00417 Date 1677
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