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Date: 12/13/2011 Views: 2407230

Cloth Seal, Belgian, WERVIK

Cloth Seal, WERVIK, Image & Found by Detectavin63.
Cloth seal, Found in Norfolk, 17mm.

Double rose // remains of lettering, possibly WERVI

See possible match:- Geoff Egan, No.327 Fig.43, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, "WERVI // double rose ..... found in East Anglia ... Sixteenth-/early seventeenth-century ... Several similar seals have been found in London ... and also at Greenwich. None of these has the town name spelled with the final K as it is today. Textile imprints on some of these seals show individual threads very clearly but the weave is not is not quite so evident; they appear to be from tabby-woven, coarse woolen fabrics with some floats in both systems, i.e. patterned weave or weaves, perhaps a kind of hunckaback ... The town's manufacture of textiles known as carpets and carpetene is presumably represented by these finds."

See pp.321 & 322, Elton, Cloth Seals, An Illustrated Reference Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth: from the British Perspective, Archaeopress, 2017.

Date: 11/09/2011
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Keywords: Unique Identification Number - BSG.CS.00362
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