Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, 1571 onward
Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, 1571 onward, Image & Found by Derfel.
Found on Thames foreshore, 45mm.
Ornate shield bearing three? crowns, secondary stamp of rose? surmounted by fleur-de-lis R F to sides // missing
One disc from a two-disc, double rivetted, Colchester Dutch community cloth seal, probably for crown bay. Similar seals with the secondary RF stamp (thought to be from an alnager or searcher) are recorded as seals 1519 and 3233 in Egan, G., 1987, page 106 miss quotes seal 1519 as 1518.