Lead Cloth Seal, United East India Company, 1805

 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.  *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. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab