Personal and Impersonal

Impressions; identity revealed

through seals

Portable Antiquities Conference.

April 18th 2007

Henry and Matilda Bishopsthorpe:

John and Selve Everard

• Two seals, exactly alike in shape and

style, from one matrix

Luttrell psalter contrasts

Home and Away

• Cecily of Kingesdone: Geoffrey of

Hastings

William of Hereford

• Found in Waterperry, Oxfordshire

Swanley, Neath and Thornton

Deanery of Hertismere : Aulnage

seal for Dorset and Somerset

William, son of Ro…rg

Isabella Jane Palande: Claricie le

Newman

Matrices in Thwaite coin hoard

Thwaite seal

Master Thomas of Wesenham:

Ricardi le ferur

Benedict the Baker

• Seal or bread stamp?

Rachel the spinster: a Jewish seal?

Walter of Thornton: John T….ester

Fleur-de-lis: lead and silver

Mary of Hertford: Alys Vercore

Mathew Vickery of Ivychurch

1373 document with alas ie su pris

Richard Remvild [Somdor 504]:

addorsed birds on tile

Isabella Jane Palande: ivory mirror

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WMID 675

Somdor C64885