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Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,725
(40 grams, 32 mm diameter.).
14th century AD. A seal matrix for the city of Berwick Upon Tweed, with a truncated hexagonal column; the matrix features a six-petalled flower with a superimposed flag bearing three lions passant gardant with a bear beneath; around the design the legend + [...]IIIEII CAMERARII VILLE [B]RVICI, interpreted as '(the seal of) the Chamberlain of the town of Berwick'; offered with a cast impression of the strike.
PROVENANCE:
Found Kirby Hill, Yorkshire, England 2007.
FOOTNOTES:
Supplied with a printed Portable Antiquities Scheme record no. SWYOR-F8E883; a seal struck from this matrix has been identified on a document held by Durham cathedral issued by William de la Val in 1364.