Cloth Seal, Heart, Image by StuE, Found by Doug Turner.
Found in Somerset, 18mm, 1.9g.
Interesting antler-like markings around a pellet on one side and privy mark on the other consisting of heart shape with a double crossed heart rising from the cleavage. Probably initials in the heart but not decipherable. Very similar to No.287 Fig.37 in Geoff Egans 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' which he categorises as a dyer's one part seal with at least twenty parallels known from the London waterfront. However this could be a two part seal (difficult to be sure from the fragment remaining) and it certainly has markings on both sides. From examination of the seal it looks to be a head and rivet fragment of a two-part seal.
