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Yesterday I decided to go on a short woods hunt despite the crazy heat and humidity.
One hour into my hunt I was drenched in sweat and was about to call it quits when I got a perfect signal with my Deus.
When I first saw it I could make out the cannons and thought military button, but quickly ruled that out cause of the size, heaviness and of course no shank.
Instead what I have here is a British Army Board of Ordnance cloth seal,( lead seal attached to cloth)
The B.O. was charged with supplying weapons, ammo and equipment to the British Army.
The broad arrow was used in England apparently from the mid 16th century
to mark objects purchased from the monarch and also to indicate Gov property
and so was the Boards mark.
Issues in the Crimean war brought about
the boards demise in 1855.
An inch in diameter, this Army seal was used
as a security measure, while pressed into cloth to show if it had been tampered with.
An exact duplicate of this early cloth seal
was unearthed at an archeological dig in Tasmania and is in a permanent exhibition
at the Queen Victoria Museum there.
Here’s the link
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=7318
And
Cloth Seal, Broad Arrow, Board of Ordnance
Sent from my iPhone
One hour into my hunt I was drenched in sweat and was about to call it quits when I got a perfect signal with my Deus.
When I first saw it I could make out the cannons and thought military button, but quickly ruled that out cause of the size, heaviness and of course no shank.
Instead what I have here is a British Army Board of Ordnance cloth seal,( lead seal attached to cloth)
The B.O. was charged with supplying weapons, ammo and equipment to the British Army.
The broad arrow was used in England apparently from the mid 16th century
to mark objects purchased from the monarch and also to indicate Gov property
and so was the Boards mark.
Issues in the Crimean war brought about
the boards demise in 1855.
An inch in diameter, this Army seal was used
as a security measure, while pressed into cloth to show if it had been tampered with.
An exact duplicate of this early cloth seal
was unearthed at an archeological dig in Tasmania and is in a permanent exhibition
at the Queen Victoria Museum there.
Here’s the link
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=7318
And
Cloth Seal, Broad Arrow, Board of Ordnance
Sent from my iPhone
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