Quite what the image meant is less clear. Teasels were used in the Middle Ages in the cloth-making process and, although there is currently no evidence of a cloth industry in Glamorgan at this time, Kidwelly in southern Carmarthenshire was a significant centre for textile manufacture in medieval Wales.⁴¹ There were also significant numbers of sheep and pasture rights are frequently mentioned in the documentation, indeed leading to a number of disputes between the seal-owners and Margam Abbey.⁴² Were the teasels perhaps a reference to status through pasture-rights, the ownership of sheep, to the increasingly profitable trade in wool or perhaps even to a previously unknown centre for textile production? The seals with teasel imagery do not provide clear answers to such questions, but by raising them we are compelled to look more closely at the lives of people below the very highest levels of society.