Cloth Seal, James I, Alnage, Lion, 8, Image & Found by London Mudlark.
Found on the Thames foreshore.
A complete four disc alnage seal showing on the inner discs, 2 & 3, a (crowned?) lion passant guardant and possibly a crown respectively // on the outer discs, 1 & 4, are the figure 8 and a star pattern.
Other examples have been found with stamps that date this type of seal to the reign of James I, see No.126, Fig.26, Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, Occasional Paper 93.
