Site:18PR175 - Oxon Hill/Addison Plantation
Fill of cellar of c. 1680s building that
burned c. 1720s/1730s
Date Range: 1720s-1730s
Size: 38 mm diameter
Style: Merchant-type
Description:
Wine bottle seal with merchant type molded design with ligatured initials N and R between a 4 and an XX inside a beaded circle.
McNulty (2004) refers to conjoined initials as “ligatured”.
Seal probably belonged to Notley Rozier (Rosier), planter at Upper Notley Hall Plantation (aka Admirathoria). Died 1727. Seal found at nearby plantation of Thomas Addison, who inherited property in 1705.