Common seal of the City of Exeter
This seal is the oldest example surviving from any of the towns and cities of England. It reads ‘SIGILLVM CIVITATIS EXONIE’, meaning ‘the seal of the city of Exeter’.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- L88/a
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- silver
- Common Name
- common seal of the City of Exeter
- Simple Name
- seal matrix
- Period Classification
- Medieval (1200-1500)
- Production Year Low
- 1170
- Production Year High
- 1200
