Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Tubular, 100 Bay Seal

Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community 100 Bay Seal, Image & Found by StuE.
Found in Wivenhoe, Colchester, Essex, TM 04027 23170, 23 x 14mm, 4.1g.

100 in sub-rectangular border of pellets // blank

A tubular or 'pipe' seal thought to be used by the Dutch immigrant weavers on their bay cloth. This one is attributed to Colchester based on its find spot (but see BSG.CS.00901).

See No.203 Fig.29, Geoff Egan, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' Occasional Paper 93. "Presumably a seal for a 'one-hundred' bay produced by one of the Dutch-immigrant communities."