Cloth Seal, Worcester, Alnage, Portcullis

Cloth Seal, Worcester, Alnage, Portcullis, Image & Held by StuE.
Found on the Thames Foreshore, 21mm, 11.6g.

Crowned portcullis E R to sides W below, ...(C)OMITATV+(WO)RCESTER around // blank

A two-disc alnage seal for the county of Worcestershire, probably from the reign of Elizabeth I. Two similar seals, but in worse condition, are described in Egan's PhD, 1987, p.242, nos.456 & 1690.