Cloth seal
Cloth seals were attached to cloth as part of the process of regulating its quality. This is one of three seals found near the processing site of George and Samuel Coade and bears their family coat of arms. It was discovered in Exeter, which has a long association with the cloth industry.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 40/2005/2/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- leadcopper alloy
- Common Name
- cloth seal
- Simple Name
- cloth seal
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
