Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Cross Bay, 1571 onward

Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Cross Bay, 1571 onward, Image & Found by Flemming KH Nielsen.
Found on the west bank of lake Tissø, Denmark, 36mm, 20g.

The Colchester coat of arms (a cross raguly and three coronets) on ornate engrailed shield with date either side 157(1), pellet border with traces of illegible inscription (DVYTS COLCESTER 100 CROS 1571) around // griffin rampant, D(VTS + C)OLCESTER around

See p 106, 'Provenanced Leaden Cloth Seals by Geoffrey Egan, Sub-Department of Medieval Archaeology, University College, University of London. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1987' "100 cross-bay seals: These have: Three coronets and cross raguly in shield with engrailed top and base, 15 71 to sides, DVYTS COLCESTER 100 CROS 1571 around // griffin segreant [i. e. rampant], + DVTS + CO(LCESTER)... around. Several slightly different dies were used. Most of these seals have only one rivet (unusual for Dutch-Colchester broad seals),"