Cloth Seal, Dutch, Leiden, Lion
Cloth Seal, Leiden, Belgic Lion, Image by Bilox, Found by Jammy Ged.
Came from around Wetherby / Knaresbough area 25.9mm, 7.7g.
Lion with Sword in one paw and clutching arrows in the left // missing
See No.324, Fig.43, p110&194, Geoff Egan, Lead Cloth Seals & Related Items in the British Museum.
"Belgic lion rampant, holding a sheaf of arrows in the right [sic] paw and a sabre in the left [sic] .... The arms are presumably those of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (though the lion's usual crown is absent)"
From Martijn Shaftenaar, "Cloth seal BSG.CS.00100 is surely a Dutch cloth seal. A lion with seven arrows in his claw is surely from Holland (and I supose it might be Leiden or at least the (old) provinces Zeelandia (now Zeeland), Hollandia (now Zuid-Holland) or West-Frisia (now Noord-Holland). The seven arrows in the claw symbolized the seven provinces of the Northern Netherlands:- Groningen en Ommelanden, Friesland, West-Friesland, Overijssel, Gelderland, Holland, and Zeeland."
An interesting publication that contains a lot about the practice of sealing cloth in the Netherlands and Leiden in particular is:- Nora Maria Rodenburg, Master Thesis Department of Archaeology and Antique History 23 May 2011' Seal and Deal, Cloth Production and Trade between the Netherlands and Scania during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times.
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