Abstract
AbstractThis article presents a collection of early modern cloth seals revealed during an excavation in Gdańsk (Poland). Our aim is to present a collection of an often-neglected category of artefacts. These are cloth seals from towns and villages located along the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Habsburg Monarchy border. Tracking the import of cloth to Gdańsk (the most important commercial centre on the Baltic Sea at that time) based on the analysis of the origin of textile seals is crucial as it allows us, in some sense, to reconstruct the cloth market of mid-seventeenth century Gdańsk.
Highlights
Lead seals have always been seen as important material evidence of trade relations
This article presents a collection of early modern cloth seals revealed during an excavation in Gdańsk (Poland)
The most crucial studies of the early modern economies of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and Duchies of Silesia have been written without paying attention to the cloth seals (Rusiński, 1949; Mączak, 1955; Rybarski, 1958), mainly because they were quite unknown as artefacts during this time
Summary
Lead seals have always been seen as important material evidence of trade relations. Even though they have been recorded from many archaeological sites in large quantities, cloth seals are a category of archaeological evidence that is still insufficiently studied. The most crucial studies of the early modern economies of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth (the Polish Crown) and Duchies of Silesia (part of Habsburg Monarchy) have been written without paying attention to the cloth seals (Rusiński, 1949; Mączak, 1955; Rybarski, 1958), mainly because they were quite unknown as artefacts during this time. We have extended this list including seals from Greater Poland, and the Mazovia region (one case) found during the excavation of site No 255 in Gdańsk These are the following towns: Lampartopol, Zbąszyń, Babimost, Wolsztyn, Rydzyna, Grabów and Sierpc (marked red on Fig. 1). The analysis of the remaining seals and the accompanying fabric fragments will be the subject of a separate publication
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