Provenanced leaden cloth seals
Provenanced leaden cloth seals
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1988
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G. Egan
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作者:
G. Egan
This thesis considers the leaden seals which were attached to textiles from the
late 14th- to the early 19th century in England as part of a system of industrial
regulation and taxation. Almost all of the 1,345 seals and related items which
are described here individually were recovered from the ground. This total
comprises all the English seals examined which refer to their place of origin in
the legends (many of these are alnage seals), all the known English seals of
medieval date, and the English matrices for the cloth seals. The unsorted
information about each item is presented, just as recorded, in Appendix 1. The
historical context and development of cloth sealing in this country are discussed,
and a chronological framework for the various stamped devices and forms of seal
is proposed. Following a more detailed account of the known medieval seals are
brief summaries of the main aspects of local textile industries and a synthesized
description of the recorded seals county by county. A concluding section
assesses the information provided by the known seals, and the degree of
correspondence with data from historical sources. Directions for future studies
are suggested. Further appendices provide statistical tables and maps of
documentary-based information on levels of textile production at different
periods, detailed discussions of the provenances and findspots of the recorded
seals, an account of the largest known group of English seals, and documentary
evidence for the dating of some of the seals from Norfolk.
For the first time information has been presented systematically, and assessed in
detail, both on the extent of survival and on the potential academic value of
cloth seals found during excavations.