Cloth Seal, Alnage, TH

Cloth Seal, Alnage, TH, Image & Found by Dean Lockwood.
Found in Shoreham Kent, 15mm.

Blank // TH ligate rose to sides / KENT // crown / 16(31?) // blank (rivet stub protruding)

A four-disc alnage seal probably from the reign of Charles I.

TH or HT (ligature T over H), is known on Essex, Surrey and Kent seals from 1628 - 39, 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.

See BSG.CS.00041 for another example of this alnager's mark.