Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Initialled, HB, 1500~1700
Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Initialled, HB, Image by StuE, Found by Nasher.
Found in North Hertfordshire / Cambridgeshire area, 20mm, 8.6g.
Blank // floral initials HB in ornate border
See:- Colchester Archaeological Report 5: The post-Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-85, Nina Crummy. (Leaden Seals for Cloths, G. Egan, P.34, Find 1943, Fig.38), "Probably a seal to identify either the clothier (the capital-owner who had the cloth woven and put on sale), or the weaver."
This seal seems to support the HB as opposed to IB initials shown in that drawing. The flowers (rosettes) are also missing from that figure but mentioned in the written description. However, see BSG.CS.00591.
