The Bagseal Gallery. Sponsored by Shape Analysis

ATTENTION Cloth Seals; An Illustrated Reference Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth: from the British Perspective, by S.F. Elton is available from Archaeopress, see first page of this Gallery.

This gallery is intended as a reference resource for those wanting to know about the cloth or bag seals they have found. All pictures of seals and information/comments welcomed HERE. Please note that sending images for inclusion on this web site means that you agree to my publishing that image in any book or article in which I may refer to them (credit for the original image and finding the object will be given). Other sites of interest - Jan van Oostveen - Cloth and bag seals, Dutch Artefacts, The PeaceHavens Project, Echange-passion, Euro-Plombs, plomb-de-scellé.

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Use the 'Search the Gallery' box (top left corner) to help find seals by typing words or items that can be seen on them. If you want seals from a particular country use the adjectival form, i.e. French or Russian, etc. Any seal without an assigned country is assumed to be British.

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