Record Details

NHER Number:20893
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:18th century seal

Summary

An 18th century wool or cloth bale seal inscribed with a curly R was found here by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 72 23
Map Sheet:TF72SW
Parish:CONGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

October 1984. South of Congham House. Metal detecting.
Wool or cloth bale seal, lead, diameter 2.8cm, two piece with loop between, two halves joined by plug. Traces of letter ?R in very curly script suggestive of 18th century.
E. M. James (KLM), 13 October 1984

Part of large scatter NHER 30690.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Related records

30690Part of: Bronze Age to Late Iron Age activity, Early Saxon cemetery and a Roman to Early Medieval settlement (Monument)
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