Cloth Seal, Continental, Winged Heart, Image & Found by Jon Gooderham.
Found in Norolk, 34mm.
Winged heart on anchor with eagle? above // ... PS other markings too faint to decipher. Traces of fabric threads attached to rivet.
See No.331 Fig.44, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum Occasional Paper 93. "(offstruck) clouds with sunburst over anchor with winged heart // (on rivet) (?human figure) Textile imprint: tabby weave; slightly ribbed in direction of weft, which has c.18 threads per 10mm (warp less distinct). ... (?)Late sixteenth-/seventeenth-century. To judge from parallels the device on the second disc seems to be a human figure facing, perhaps with one or both arms held out at the side(s). ... Similar seals have been found in London, e.g. at Dockhead in Bermondsey, south London."
Egan suggests it is a Continental cloth seal but it may possibly be French or at least part of the French Empire as a Jetton with a similar design appears to connect it to Napoleon.
