Lead Cloth Seal, United East India Company, 1805

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Maritime Archaeology
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2020-10-20
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![](https://bit.ly/3m6P8if) A lead cloth seal, used to mark rolls of textiles. This seal has the mark of the United East India Company (VEIC). The reverse features a cross, probabaly featuring the arms of Tudor England in the upper left quadrant, though this example is highly degraded. It was a recovered from the wreck of the *Earl fof Abergavenny*, a large East Indiaman wrecked in Weymouth Bay in 1805 shortly after deaprting for Bengal and China on its fifth major voyage. ![](https://bit.ly/3omKi2i) *Dimensions from the SLS scan in millimetres.* Scanned on behalf of the Nautical Archaeology Society by the Maritime Archaeology Trust with a HP SLS3 system and post-processed in ZBrush.