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The armorial was discovered in pieces embedded in Tudor Cottage, in Hanwell near Banbury in March, as builders were taking walls down.

A good domestic window is often produced by armorial bearings in colour being placed on geometrically arranged tesseræ of slightly tinted glass.

This held banners, candles, armorial bearings and other heraldic devices.

Another type of seal common in this 12th century shows the personal device which had not yet developed into an armorial charge.

For a time I went into a works where they made dies for armorial bearings.