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Lead bag seals

May 21st, 2014 in Newsletter

While the Field Archaeology Group are usually looking out for prehistoric, Roman and mediaeval items, they also come across much recent finds:

Lead Bag Seal

Lead Bag Seal

Terry Hayward managed to track down the bag seal that he found on Coppice bank, details below.

Advertisement circa 1938

Advertisement circa 1938

Guano Seal, Anglo Continental

Anglo-Continental Guano Works Ltd. AngloContinental, originally Ohlendorff & Co., had been founded in 1873, and remained a German company until the First World War, when it was reconstituted under
British control. It was taken over in 1937 by Fisons Ltd. And closed in 1946.

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