Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's One-Part Seal, GP, 1575~1700, Image by Steve Jump, Found by Rose Jump.
Found on Thames Foreshore between Queenhithe Dock & Southwark Bridge, 12mm.
Privy mark '4' G P to sides, scroll-work to sides // blank
Dyers one-part (bulla type) seal, Very similar to those shown in Fig.37 in Geoff Egans 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' which he categorises as a dyer's one part seals found ‘in some numbers ... from Trig Stairs to London Bridge’. He dates them from the late 16th to 17th centuries.
A parallel seal, BSG.CS.01252, has been found in Devon!
